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Why doesn't someone just make a social media where everyone is a moderator? (quokk.au)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Krusty@quokk.au to c/askbeehaw@beehaw.org

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So basically classic Reddit. Let the votes matter. Let people decide a down vote threshold (hide posts for me below x number.)

And let all of us who want to see the show put that threshold to negative Infinity and let's have some gosh dang fun!?

I'm kind of thinking it's only a matter of time until someone incorporates the mod log and just reintegrates those messages into a continuous comment hierarchy. Kind of like how pie fed incorporates multiple instances into a single comment tree.

Why the extra steps? Comments are never really deleted you can go look them up. Seems pedantically silly.

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[–] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@anarchist.nexus 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

From an anarchist perspective: there's a difference between vandalizing a Walmart and vandalizing an online forum. Anarchists clearly recognize that vandalism is destructive. And destruction absolutely can be a liberatory act, e.g. vandalizing a Walmart. But if we're trying to construct a liberatory community connected by social media ... clearly, vandalism of said community is counterproductive.

Moderation allows trusted members of the community to take action against people trying to wreck our communities. It is an act which asserts our freedom of association in any case, a corollary of which is our freedom to disassociate, and an act of community defense in extreme cases (e.g. yeeting Nazis to Hell). That is not to say that forum moderation, including Lemmy's and PieFed's implementations, is beyond critique or is incapable of reproducing existing hierarchies. But IMO, moderation can be a perfectly valid tool in an anarchist toolkit.