I like the idea of Dissenter (the browser extension) - having a comment section for every page which doesn't depend on the owner of the page and isn't moderated either. Unfortunately the idea was developed by people supporting extremists and got really bad press.
@rodolpho Thanks for mentioning it, Rodolpho. I found a page with some detailed notes and comments on it (haven't read it yet, in the middle of many things here)
Leaving it for reference:
@rodolpho I just tuned out of the fedi for a bit and started catching up with my To Do tabs.
Read this page I linked above, and liked his report, which was veiledly critical of many organizations and people. Other than Gab and it's members.
I imagined the 'comments' being left by anonymous people in the manner described in the article, which is enabled by the extension and now by the forked version of the Brave browsers Gab has released, those comments would be what I would consider awful.
A screenshot in the article confirmed my assumption, more or less. This whole thing would be a gift for troll farms working on influencing people and policy in the western countries.
@Full_marx , you might want to read this?
@design_RG Definitely, once the barriers against extremist, or just bad, comments are removed, they stick out.
But as @Full_marx mentioned, I agree this is inevitable. Suppressing opinions and ideas won't make them go away.
Even as individuals we have to integrate the darker sides of ourselves or it inevitably leads to worse consequences. If as a society the only way these opinions are managed is via oppression, disaster is bound to happen.
