• kingshrubb@lemmy.ml
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    5 days ago

    The censorship and Napoleonic complex moderators on lemmy.world are nearly as bad as reddit

    • Removing posts of non news articles being posted to the news comms isn’t censorship.

      Removing non-US politics posts posted to a US politics comm is not censorship.

      Removing political memes posted to a non-political meme comm is not censorship.

      Removing posts of something other than micro blogs to the microblogs community is not censorship.

      Removing posts that break the clearly posted rules of the community is not censorship.

      JFC… 🤦‍♂️

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      5 days ago

      :-/

      The nature of social media. Moderation takes time and energy (which amount to money). As a community grows larger, the moderators either need to increase their moderation costs or get draconian with their enforcement to reduce the expense.

      Reddit is just the Late Stage of this phenomenon. If Lemmy continues to accrue users and follow the Reddit trajectory, where else can it end? I fully anticipate it’ll either go full /r/The_Donald with fascist bot-accounts spamming up every channel (a la “Nicole” spam mentioned in the pinned post). Or we’ll see mods do full instance purges of anyone suspected of any violation of any rule (perhaps even automating the process or turning it entirely over to an in-house AI) because there’s no Lemmy budget to do what Facebook or Reddit tried initially (turning moderation over to sweatshops in the Philippines or wherever labor was cheapest).

      Smaller communities speed ran this transformation. Voat imploded inside a year or two. Chapo/Hexbear ate itself over the course of a couple years. TruthSocial is all just botspam now. Some of the smaller instances in Lemmy have imploded to the same effect. This instance has a rather large and active modding community. But it comes for us all in the end.