Defederation is pretty effective
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sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 4 weeks agoI feel like the decentralization brings some downsides in the quantity of bad actors, extremist views, and the like.
The open platform certainly has an overwhelming advantage over Reddit in other ways, but there seems to be a higher number of trolls, shitheads, wackos, etc and in some cases entire instances dedicated to them.
While these people get banned on Reddit, Lemmy hasn’t yet solved this moderation issue; user accounts are basically disposable and moderation is super distributed, so it’s easy to abuse.
half_built_pyramids@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Heres the thing, this is what huamns are. A shithead may be a shithead to one but a golden god to another. A truly open forum will reflect that. Moderation effectively splits different views and both can thrive without interaction with one another (echo chambers). I personally dont mind extremist views because it reminds me they exist and I am of sound mind to ignore them. However, I know not everyone is and I know the dangers of letting extremest views go unchallenged. I doubt technology can help us here. Education can probably do a lot more. We need to be better humans, accepting of others and critical of ideas instead of people.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 4 weeks ago
That’s because they’re actual humans and not 95% bots like Reddit.