Admin comments on Lemmy community feedback: Should we fetch and combine comments from cross-posts on the post screen? · Issue #3415

[–] Admin@startrek.website 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

You've taken my words and twisted their meaning to create an antisocial strawman to attack. I will not engage.

That said: if you are someone who views the power instance administrators have over their instances to be "tyrannical", then ActivityPub —a protocol which by design decentralizes power away from a CEO and into the diverse hands of instance owners— is probably not the protocol for the sort of platform you're looking for.

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[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 1 point 1 year ago

I agree, I believe the fediverse as it exists just create many "mini-reddits" the problem still exists and the incentives to concentrate attention into "big instances" and "big communities" will almost certainly recreate the same problem that reddit does. Except with a fragmented audience, the misdeeds and abuses of admins will be harder to detect and more confusing to escape.

So, I agree, without serious steps, taken urgently to disempower instance owners and their lieutenant moderators I believe Lemmy and the Fediverse are already doomed. An aristocratic class of server owners will have free reign to gaslight the small remnant of reddit refugees into believe whatever their interests desires.

And based on your username, I suspect that you are one of these owners, that this is the real reason of your objection to further disempowerment of instance owners and that what I see as a nightmare is in fact your dream.

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