go back to a closed platform that only you moderate
simple as
https://blog.elizafox.space/forget-the-fediverse-lets-build-something-new
@theorytoe I wanted to make a sarcastic joke about this, but I think it can stand on its own without any comment at all.
@theorytoe Also, how is this not just Web Of Trust all over again?
+bonifartius 𒂼𒄄
@japananon @theorytoe it's like lobsters and that didn't work either to keep annoying people away but instead they started banning long time users.
@bonifartius @theorytoe what was the story with lobsters? I must have missed that.
@japananon @theorytoe they have a user-tree where you can see who invited whom. never really fixed spam. many long time users with much "karma" got banned for wrongthink. both you can see from the moderation log.
my vote is that you can either have padded echo chambers shielding people from dissenting views or some kind of open system where you occasionally have to deal with shit content (or delegate that decision to someone you trust) but can have unpoliced conversations in exchange for it.
as always, no such thing as free lunch.
fun note about the original proposal: they think they (the thought police) are the majority while servers on the "dark side of fedi" have really many users with imo much better user engagement.
@japananon @theorytoe well, jcs orignally created lobsters because HN was shit. it actually was quite okay until pushcx took over and the whole thing turned from hacker spirit to woke haven.
@bonifartius @theorytoe Imagine recreating reddit karma whore faggotry entirely from first principles