For me it feels like breaking up with someone after many years. At the same time, I feel a bit dirty mentioning the name in the post title.

  • taladar@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    How would you prevent that though? If you don’t have any moderation at all the first commercial spammer or griefer who comes along destroys your community.

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      My thinking is that for communities with names where its important to be impartial (like for instance a country’s name) they should have some way to appeal to the instance owner to take back the name from a mod team that you can show evidence is repetitively being unfair or biased. Something like a poll. How that could be implemented and protected from abuse, I’m not sure. For communties where its obvious its a company managing their social image, I have no problem with more harsh moderation. My main problem is political coercion and control of the media.

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        1 year ago

        Wouldn’t that just push the problem up to the instance owner level?

        Also, the idea of unbiased media is a nice theoretical construct but if you look at RL media options like books, news papers, TV,… you will notice that none of them are unbiased. At best you have a balanced mix of sources biased in different directions.