3rd world country with dictatorship
Wow... if you are wondering why your post gets banned everywhere, it is maybe because you are the problem. Your entitlement doesn't have a place in a rational discussion.
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3rd world country with dictatorship
Wow... if you are wondering why your post gets banned everywhere, it is maybe because you are the problem. Your entitlement doesn't have a place in a rational discussion.
It's just a hyperbole to explain how outdated the state of censorship feels to me. And well, that's just my opinion and I should be allowed to have that opinion. That's the exact point I was trying to make. But apparently you view it differently.
I acknowledge that my word choice might've been somewhat exaggerated but personally calling me entitled and not rational based on that is not fair in my opinion.
Your choice was not exaggerated, but plain wrong. Trump is censoring universities right now in the so called democratic first world.
The problem is that moderators here and on reddit (i believe?) are volunteers, so they are going to have personal limits on what they'll accept. And if they can't have those, they won't do it. Someone else will have to volunteer for an unpaid position that can take up lots of their precious time on this earth.
Start a mod fund and pay people, is my suggestion. The only rewards at the moment for moderating are, like, a smoothly running community. Tiny, mostly irrelevant power. Being a big fish in a small pond. Personal satisfaction? You can get that being treasurer at your local beading club, but there you get to mess around with beads. I dunno.
As for making different platforms, there also has to be someone willing to do that work. Mostly thankless, and you'll always get it wrong somehow. I'm amazed anyone bothers.
How about starting your own sub - here or on Reddit? Then you are the mod.
Should be "starting your own instance", because otherwise you still have to conform to the rules of the instance you create your community/sub on.
"Look at me. I'm the ~~captain~~ mod now."
i cannot see what you were actually banned for, but the fact you've been banned everywhere from reddit is kinda red flag tbh. i've seen people posting everything from the constructive criticism to 'fuck spez' for months and no one banned them. you might've been banned for different reasons except censorship. might it be that you just didn't "read the room" or didn't keep discussions constructive?
I think it's really just the fact that there are moderators who ban people based on their mood. It has nothing to do with the actual content as I've seen many posts that seem actually questionable but haven't been banned. Of course you only see the people who didn't get banned and can post and you can't see the people who are banned because well, they cannot post.
If I'd show you the times I got banned you will see that it is basically randomly and those moderators invent things that are far detached from reality.
There should be multiple independent steps of verifying if someone should get banned and in what way. And probably integrate a good test for joining the community so that it's more likely for people to be rational from the start (that way you don't even have to look at so many potential flags).
How much would you pay to join a community with that level of protection for user rights? Like the old subscription based forums, some of which are still floating around the internet?
Because "multiple independent steps of verifying" is, frankly, going to be a lot of frustrating, thankless, and redundant work for moderators. I mean, we know how to safeguard people's rights through legalistic processes. Courts do it all the time. It's called due process. And due process is frequently a slow, complicated, and expensive pain in the ass for everyone involved. And I think very few people would want to do that work for free.
(Conveniently, this would also serve as a good test for joining such a community - people are more likely to follow the rules and act like decent human beings if a subscription they paid for is riding on it, and it would price out AI and spambots in the process.)
Yes, censorship is definitely an issue on even the Fediverse. A certain demographic wants the Fediverse to be an echo chamber. Fortunately, there are some instances that don't operate that way.
If people want the Fediverse to replace social media, they're gonna have to accept that there will people they don't agree with.
The major advantage with federation is that you aren't locked to one instance. If an instance censors you, you can find a different one and migrate your profile over there.
Still, the fact that people wig out if you express an opinion they don't agree with is definitely an issue, considering how many Fediverse instances bow to the "free speech for me, not for thee" mentality.