John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed
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Content moderation primarily serves advertisers
I'm lost, here. Do you not think fighting toxicity and hate speech is a valid and important function of moderation that's just as much or more for the sake of the people as it might be for advertisers?
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Well fuck the mastodonians their stupidity is no reason to make everyone else's experience shitter.
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The thing about fedi is how do u stop it. Ban every instances ip? make it illegal to use? They can try but they will have very little success.
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That's what I suspect
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I think the rise of hate speech on centralised platforms relies very heavily on theur centrlaised moderation and curation via algorithms.
They have all known for a long time that their algorithms promote hate speech, but they know that curbing that behaviour negatively affects their revenue, so they don't do it. They chase the fast buck, and they appease advertisers who have a naturally conservative bent, and that means rage bait and conventional values.
That's quite apart from when platform owners explicitly support that hate speech and actively suppress left leaning voices.
I think what we have on decentralised systems where we curate/moderate for ourselves works well because most of that open hate speech is siloed, which I think is the best thing you can do with it.
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They'd shut down large instances, pressure WordPress to remove support, in the US at least, it could be seen as too risky, if they wanted to they would find a way. I don't think this would happen easily in the EU though.
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Really hoping legislators in Sweden don't force Signal to pull its services from the country. 🫣
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What about the dragon type?
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This was literally the photo that finally got me banned from Reddit years ago.
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As long as no one sells off Lemmy, which is impossible now...
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For me the advantage of Bluesky is that I can own my identity. I can reserve [email protected] and use that, without having to run my own instance.
With Mastodon I’d have to put up a full-ass server instance and worry about federation etc just to have my “own” identity instead of [email protected] or something
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Bluesky will be the next Twitter. Just give it some time
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You make laws like the Online Safety Act in the UK. You then attach a multi-million dollar fine to anyone who doesn't adhere to the bonkers unenforceable stipulations in the text.
All of a sudden, no one but a corporation with a legal department can safely run an instance without putting their money and eventually freedom on the line.
They might not be able to just stop it, but you can force us into a pirate scenario where we have to do it in the dark.
We are likely starting to slowly head into 1984 territory. IF Fascim continues to rise, eventually, non-state-run media will be deemed unlawful and they'll do what they can to make it go away.
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You don't just trade 1 powerful ceo for another when you get the chance to leave. Ridiculous.
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Bluesky is corporate, Mastodon is FOSS.
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It has its own charm once you get used to it lmao
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Here's the same video on PeerTube
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Lemmy has also taken over advertiser focused moderation patterns. A great example is NSFW. What is NSFW exactly? Not safe for work? Why is that relevant?
NSFW is literally just advertiser unfriendly content. Why else group nakedness, violence, sexual content, and death in the same category? -
What legislation would do that? Would they want access to your messages or something?
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Thanks (･–･) \(･◡･)/
