RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them]

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Joined 3 years ago
Cake day: July 1st, 2023
  • RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.nettoLemmy@lemmy.ml•*Permanently Deleted*English
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    9 months ago

    It makes me laugh because these are the Reddit liberals that decry an authoritarian, totalitarian, dictator who uses covert tactics to manipulate places like Reddit against the freedoms and ideas they hold so dear. A dictator who fears their freedom of thought and freedom of speech, their freedom to choose their associations. They believe they are being manipulated by an army of subservient shills and bots who shape narratives and spread bad ideas through the subtle manipulation of algorithms. So when it comes time to break free from these “oppressive structures”, they end up building the exact kind of imagined oppressive structure they rail against. Meanwhile, Lemmy admins twittle their thumbs, unable to even edit a community on the instances they control unless someone appoints them as a moderator of that community. They can’t even appoint themselves as moderators of another community; it has to be another administrator who does it.

  • RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.nettoLemmy@lemmy.ml•*Permanently Deleted*English
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    9 months ago

    Piefed is also full of admin level manipulation controls that allow the admin to shadow ban you, make your votes have less weight. They can perform the same level of vote manipulation on a per instance bases. They can boost their friends while making those critical of them get no votes from users. You can’t view any of this with out an admin account either. I think they can even make you subbed or unsubbed to a comm without your consent. It has automaton to auto hide your comments if you’re not conforming to the group think. They can make your account flagged for all users with a warning simply based on your over all score in the community.

  • RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.nettoLemmy@lemmy.ml•*Permanently Deleted*English
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    2 years ago

    Score is relative though. On hexbear we have downvotes disabled. This means we can not down vote but also means down votes do not federate.

    Studies have shown that down votes actually have a large psychological impact negatively on the user. Down votes are frankly unproductive. They might also encourage bad behavior, because if your goal is to stir the pot then down votes are a great indicator that it’s working.

    On hexbear we operate on a fork of Lemmy. One of the changes is to the active algorithm, which makes posts decay faster then core Lemmy. Since the change things move pretty smoothly on the front page.

    An automated system of banning is something primed for abuse. We see this already on other platforms that has trigger mechanisms for banning a user pending review. Its a shoot first ask questions later approach that could be weaponized against people.

    Echo chamber is a very loaded term. A safe community is a protected community. To someone intruding on a space that values the community it has built, it might look like bad faith action. However, often the inverse is true, and the intruder is the one acting in bad faith. That could mean they willingly or ignorantly disregard the rules of a space, or are unwilling to listen and understand the perspective of a given space, and simply want to argue.

    The value in Lemmy is that you can build and curate the kind of site culture and ultimately network culture you desire. If you do not like that culture, you can anyways find another place to hang out.

    As it stands, you can implement your ideas using a bot. One thing definitely lacking on Lemmy is a kind of Auto moderator. It should be remembered though that auto moderator was a community built tool until Reddit assimilated it into the site as a core feature.