We need to be careful on Lemmy. Only the fact that the moderators and admins have goodwill are keeping Lemmy from becoming like Reddit. If Lemmy gets big and starts attracting people who want to pay to take over communities, that will stretch the moderator goodwill to the limits.

I was banned from Reddit by Reddit for calling out a shill. And then they censored my post and deleted it from my data request so that it was impossible to prove I wasn't inciting violence. That whole place is fucked.

Super curious about the Pokemon Go thing, wasn't able to find anything on Google though. Could you tell what to search or share a link? Thanks <3

Way longer than that. The rot was evident during 2015/2016 election cycle. Narrative crafting and political astroturfing for days. The last 5 years or show has just illustrated how unhinged the admins and mods of major subs are

Taking the Facebook and Twitter route

*Can we

But yeah fuck Raphael

especially when you boot out all the volunteers with accessibility needs over API monetization that was clearly just meant to kill off API usage.

"And so then Lemmy said 'Hey you know what would be a good idea is if we copied that model exactly'" :-(

New study shows just how Facebook's algorithm shapes conservative and liberal bubbles

The answer seems to be yes. After analyzing popular political news links posted on the platform between September 2020 and February 2021, the researchers found that there's not much overlap between political news consumption within the two camps. Segregation also increases as a news link moves from being selected by the algorithm, to being seen by a user, to being interacted with.

That ideological gap was larger than what other research has shown for overall news consumption online and in traditional media.

"This borders on an indictment of Facebook's algorithm," said Laura Edelson, a computer scientist and postdoctoral researcher at NYU. She was not involved with the project but has done similar research and reviewed the studies' findings. (In 2021, Edelson and her team were blocked from accessing Facebook after a clash over the data they were collecting.)

I assume with X you need to directly manipulate the algorithm to manipulate what appears in feeds. Which means you don’t have this plausible deniability by blaming a third party mod. OTOH it’s more difficult for a user to detect the platform doing algorithm manipulation and call out the platform because it’s just a black box to them.

Is Oracle really going to host TikTok? That’s been a rumor for like two years now. Even if they do host it on their servers, what kind of administrative or moderation control are they expected to have?

I agree. Lemmy has a ton of awful moderators that abuse their power just to support "their" viewpoint.

Lemmy is better though because it at least has the potential for people to have better moderation, as well as a modlog that keeps mods somewhat accountable and let's people see what is being censored.

reddit is only worse than lemmy because it is centralized by one group of douchebags

That's a really big distinguishing factor though. When a group gets "too big to fail," it becomes a problem by giving said group too much control. Look at the genocide apologist mods on /r/worldnews .

The de-centralization / fragmentation of Lemmy is an important check against bad moderation.

and its a style of organization problem with this style of forum.

Which lemmy mitigates by being decentralized.

Why would you bother talking about them, I suppose. Bitching about dickheads - fun, wow, everyone loves a moan. Complimenting the capable? Dull, flat, uninteresting

Exactly!

Thing is tho, you own r/bastard mods, you own it entirely

You own c/bastardmods.lemmy.bastard, people move to c/bastardmods.lemmy.fuckyou

Yeah volunteer mods almost always act like fief lords on any platform.

The type of person that would volunteer is precisely the type of person who shouldn't be a mod, usually.

My very first Lemmy post was in what is essentially the only Lemmy comics group, and it got removed because it contained "profanity".

I was trying to post original content directly to Lemmy, which is something no one ever does. But it got removed, so fuck it, I posted it to reddit. Two hours later, it was on the front page of reddit. So not to toot my own horn, but I think that's a sign that it was pretty fucking premium OC, the kind of content that a Lemmy mod should want in their community.

I've since seen it reposted all over the internet, and it's hit the reddit front page several more times.

The profanity in question: "balls".

I don't know, I haven't been banned on Lemmy for saying pedos deserve to die yet. I got that twice in one week on Reddit, and then again almost immediately when I got back.

There are three Seattle subs because of this shit.

Not surprising. Most of the left-leaning people would've left by June 2023.