RedWizard

RedWizard, 2 months ago

Oh god I just learned what NAFO is and I think I was hit with a lethal dose of cringe. It’s been good knowing you comrades!

RedWizard, 2 months ago

I abandoned an old account because Hexbear bullies followed me around and downvoted everything. Come to think of it, I haven’t posted a single thing since then, and I had a bunch of posts with hundreds of votes

The spector of Hexbear haunts dotWorld. Every down vote is a tankie assault. Just don’t tell them down votes are disabled here…

RedWizard, 2 months ago

It’s clear the objectives here are to force a purchase of TikTok so that the state can:

• (A) reap the private profits
• (B) install a more cooperative administration so they can:
  • (1) gain backdoor access to its data and get easy warrantless searches of American’s online activity
  • (2) install a moderation / community safety lead who aligns with state interests (similar to ex-cia agents being employed at Facebook, Google, and Reddit) to try and shape the content on the platform, likely to be more bourgeois in character.

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These are definitely bipartisan goals. TikTok has proven itself over the past few years as a kind of gorilla journalism vehicle, by intention or not. Some of the people posting on TikTok likely wouldn’t even consider themselves “journalists” by any standard; however, the reality is they are. If someone is posting video of an unfolding event live, from a boots-on-the-ground perspective, they are performing a kind of journalism.

The TikTok algorithm has this uncanny ability (and at times manual ability) to catapult a video in front of nearly everyone on the platform. That kind of exposure to these unfolding events has steadily eroded the base that the mass market media has been sitting on for decades, in a way that no other platform has done before.

I have no doubt that this will pass. Their gross attempts at trying to spin this as some kind of security threat or as the ghoul good-morning has put it “not an attempt to ban TikTok. It’s an attempt to make TikTok better. Tic-Tac-Toe. A winner. A winner” will slide off the younger generations. To most in that demographic it will appear for what it is, a transparent and patronizing attempt to maintain American hegemony, and nothing more.

Make no mistake, when this is passed, you will have your speech on that platform curtailed. You will see the algorithm change to support a more western, bourgeois narrative. American capital will walk away with the reward. You will be left holding the bag. You will see the state execution of TikTok in the town square.

Every accusation is projection, this is no different.

RedWizard, 2 months ago

So brave. So bold. eric-andre

RedWizard, 2 months ago

Every tool a can be abused… If we were not making tools based on their harm potential wed still be in the cave. People said the same thing about Gab and mastodon.

RedWizard, 2 months ago

Additionally my daughter will be born within a few weeks, so there won’t be any time for programming.

Congratulations! I hope nothing but the best comrade!

RedWizard, 2 months ago

Follow the link in the post

RedWizard, 2 months ago

Shocking.

RedWizard, 2 months ago

I fucking knew this guy was fucked. His vibes were not right.

RedWizard, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Reddit moderation style is simply an extension of classic bulletin board style moderation. I think the real issue with moderation has to do with the rate of new user intake and lack of population control. These are things classic forms have found solutions for in the past as well. Something Awful for example charged money for the privilege of posting. I’ve seen forms require you to sign up with your ISP provided email.

If an instance isn’t properly managing intake volume, they will have moderation issues. Many Lemmy instances have questionnaires and approvals before an account is created. The aim being to ensure the user understands what the instance is about and for administration to ensure the user is the right fit. It’s only an issue of manpower of you’re trying to be a .world style instance, the biggest instance around.

I think that goal however is counter to federation on principle. Large instances create moderation problems and lack any real culture or cohesion as a result. Finding ways to encourage smaller but more numerous instances I think would go a long way to tackle moderation issues.

Right now, defederating is the only real way to avoid these problematic instances. Which at times can be like using a sledge hammer to cut a cake. If instance A has a community (1) explicitly brigading Instance B, there is no real way to quarantine users who are from A and active in community (1), you have to either ban each individual you come across or defederate the instance.

It might be more interesting to provide tools to allow for selective defederation. For example, preventing an instance from federating votes; A means of rate limiting an instances comments; Blocking post creation by users from a given instance; Read only federation settings.

Obviously this is limited by what activitypub is capable of, but I can’t imagine these ideas are impossible.