The TikTok ban and Donald Trump's rise to power show how fragile our social media accounts are. We must normalize and invest in decentralized social media.
Humans are vulnerable to propaganda. Lemmy’s architecture is against censorship. This helps to push back against propaganda, but only so much. But at least not being censored is a big win IMO.
You can certainly be censored on Lemmy, depending on your instance. But you can also easily go to another instance and still talk to everybody you used to talk to on the old instance.
Same thing with propaganda. Your instance can remove it from their hosted communities, or allow it. And you can go to an instance that feels good.
You have almost 900 post, 9000 comments and you moderate 16 communities.
You are a member of the delegate class whose intrinsic power comes from trapping users into their instances and communities by holding their account, history and relationships hostage.
You can prove me wrong and prove there is no friction to escaping your control by leaving the server sh.itjust.works
Yeah, and like half of them are niche with little to no other posters. Not exactly a powerful position. There’s a couple big ones that no one else was volunteering to help with. But I’m by no means I power mod. I want to help communities grow. Not police people. I wasn’t a mod on reddit if that’s what you’re thinking.
You are a member of the delegate class whose intrinsic power comes from trapping users into their instances and communities by holding their account, history and relationships hostage.
I don’t understand how you think I’m doing this? By being too active? If anything that should make people take me less seriously lol.
You can prove me wrong and prove there is no friction to escaping your control by leaving the server sh.itjust.works
For no reason other than what’s essentially a dare? I like the admins. And as pointed out I am active, it’s not like reddit where I could make a new acct and blend in as a new user. If I had a real reason to move I wouldn’t mind.
Humans are vulnerable to propaganda. Lemmy’s architecture is against censorship. This helps to push back against propaganda, but only so much. But at least not being censored is a big win IMO.
You can certainly be censored on Lemmy, depending on your instance. But you can also easily go to another instance and still talk to everybody you used to talk to on the old instance.
Same thing with propaganda. Your instance can remove it from their hosted communities, or allow it. And you can go to an instance that feels good.
Does this lead to echo chambers? Probably.
Yes you can go elsewhere, but you lose your identity, history, relationship and reputation.
None of that is
imperativeimportant* to me on a place like this.You have almost 900 post, 9000 comments and you moderate 16 communities. You are a member of the delegate class whose intrinsic power comes from trapping users into their instances and communities by holding their account, history and relationships hostage.
You can prove me wrong and prove there is no friction to escaping your control by leaving the server sh.itjust.works
Consider yourself called out.
If I could hide the count I would
Yeah, and like half of them are niche with little to no other posters. Not exactly a powerful position. There’s a couple big ones that no one else was volunteering to help with. But I’m by no means I power mod. I want to help communities grow. Not police people. I wasn’t a mod on reddit if that’s what you’re thinking.
I don’t understand how you think I’m doing this? By being too active? If anything that should make people take me less seriously lol.
For no reason other than what’s essentially a dare? I like the admins. And as pointed out I am active, it’s not like reddit where I could make a new acct and blend in as a new user. If I had a real reason to move I wouldn’t mind.
Nah