cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/465141
Everyone I have something very important to say about The Agora.
The Problem
Let me be super clear here to something people don’t seem to understand about lemmy and the fediverse. Votes mean absolutely nothing. No less than nothing.
In the fediverse, anyone can open a instance, create as many users as they want and one person can easily vote 10,000 times. I’m serious. This is not hard to do.
Voting at best is a guide to what is entertaining.
As soon as you allow a incentive the vast majority of votes will be fake. They might already be mostly fake.
If you try to make any decision using votes as a guide someone WILL manipulate votes to control YOU.
One solution (think of others too!)
A counsel of trusted users.
The admin, top mods may set up a group to decide on who to ban and what instances to defederate from. You will not get it right 100% of the time but you also won’t be controlled by one guy in his basement, running 4 instances and 1,000 alts.
Now i’m gonna go back to shit posting.
Yeah like I’m going to trust a council of mods with agendas over the will of the ppl, terrible idea, sounds narcissistic and tyrannical, no offense. As a fellow conservative i respect you but I’m in agreement with some of the other users here and say Hard pass homie. I would rather get digitally face fucked by all the lib users of lemmy and give them free rein to say what they like on my own instance then get out voted by ten losers making decisions for us all from mommies basement while they down Cheetos and chug soy milk
Think of the underlying problem more than the solution. One user having 50 alts. You know all the people regularly voting are gonna have a shit ton of alts.
Who cares, they have miserable lives, the joke is on them