Need to nuke mods all over. Go to 100% community ownership. Why the fuck any lefty accepts mods is beyond me.
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FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 3 weeks agoI actually don’t think the Lemmy Platform decentralization is working at all. This is evidenced by the fact that several times the tankie lemmy devs have pushed a top of the site banner to beg for donations to help run Lemmy ml, and most instance owners admit they’re not equipped to audit the code and remove it.
I think Piefed is a superior solution for that reason.
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 3 weeks ago
Not every person can handle the responsibility of the power to push any content to anyone and everyone, thus mods were born out of necessity. Without them the communities you like would be spammed with at best AI scams begging for money and at worst CSAM so as to make it unusable by the people who disagree with your community.
However, you’re 100% able to buy your own hardware, launch your own instance, and start your own community, just as everyone else is.
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
No. Mods were born out of corporate and political interest to control mass media. Nothing more. Mods are there to convert digital spaces to align with their interest. They’re there to prevent people from actually forming another Egyptian spring, wiki leaks, anonymous or anything that could disrupt the current power structure.
sheogorath@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
How would you handle the CSAM issue though?
Few years ago it was an issue since someone spammed CSAM that it got federated to multiple servers and it took concentrated effort from community mods and instance admins to solve the issue.
Miaou@jlai.lu 2 weeks ago
Piefed has its share of problems, I wouldn’t argue they’re better. Or at least not better enough to warrant a migration
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
let’s not pretend like this is worse than the situation with reddit, this is like switching from pants filled with shit to pants that periodically piss themselves a bit
Yeah it’s not good, but good lord it’s so much better
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 2 weeks ago
I’m on Piefed so my situation’s pretty damn good. It’s just the Lemmy users who are in quite the debacle at the moment.
Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 3 weeks ago
The admins should have a choice in the banner, but each Lemmy instance is also using that software for free and should, in the spirit of Floss, give back. Thats really all I’ll say about that because I’m not an admin nor am I a dev for either software.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 3 weeks ago
Nah, fuck Tankies.
Tankies deserve $0. Tankies should have to pay the rest of us reparations for all the propaganda they try to shove down our throats.
Tankies would convince you and everyone in the west to murder your entire family in the night if they could. They are the enemy, they hate all that is good and just in the world, all they know is war and submission.
Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 3 weeks ago
I chill with the bears all day and nobody says that. You seem to be extremely reactionary to that ideology and I think you should step back and look at how polarized you are. It can’t be a healthy mindset. I mean you immediately responded like this and downvoted me for saying something pretty benign from a software development angle.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 3 weeks ago
For a mental exercise, you oppose ethnic cleansing of muslim ethnic groups such as the genocide in Gaza and Lebanon, right?
MousePotatoDoesStuff@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
I don’t think even Trump supporters are that horrible people. At worst, tankies are falling for Russian/Chinese/etc… propaganda, possibly due to overcorrecting from American propaganda. None of us are immune to propaganda.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 2 weeks ago
Tankies are just MAGA after their regime takes root. What the CCP does to Uighurs and Tibetans is what Trump WISHES he could do. China and Russia are constantly trying to expand borders. They’re a threat to continued life on this earth, they hate us, and they’re spending massive amounts of money to spread propaganda and do us as much harm as possible.