Since I guess everything is political these days, I’ll identify as extremely liberal but without a home in US politics.

Mainly, there’s so much misinformation out there that people in society have trouble even organizing into coherent political groupings. So I’d rather not talk about politics but instead focus on information and education. Nothing else matters until the bedrock of fact is buttressed.

But… people are always going to be wrong on the internet, as the saying goes.

So: Old man yells at clouds is a famous joke from The Simpsons, and it probably fairly describes what we do when venting on social media.

Just speaking into the void, since I figure it’s an exercise in futility to conduct discussions on these platforms.

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  • volkris@qoto.orgtoLemmy@lemmy.ml•*Permanently Deleted*
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    1 year ago

    @Sprite I could imagine two schools of thought on that.

    (and I’m not saying one is right or not)

    The other side is I imagine a ban represents an intention to disconnect, including the connection that would be required to let the person know they’re banned.

    That also avoids drama that a misbehaving user might stir up in response to the ban.

    Technically, in this distributed system, banning is more about ignoring someone. Instances can’t trust each other, so by keeping banning on the receiver side instead of the sender side, the ban-er has more control over the banning.

    Moderation in the Fediverse is about making sure MY users on MY instance get the experience they want, regardless of what any other instance does.

    It all comes down to the distributed structure here.

  • volkris@qoto.orgtoLemmy@lemmy.ml•*Permanently Deleted*
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    1 year ago

    @Sprite I don’t think this is really possible in a distributed system like Fediverse since there isn’t a centralized list of bans.

    You’d have to go to every instance one by one asking if you’re on their ban list, and since that list of instances is huge and changing by the day it’s just not practical under the design of this system.

  • volkris@qoto.orgtoLemmy@lemmy.ml•*Permanently Deleted*
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    1 year ago

    @Sprite I don’t know if it would be a HUGE leap forward, but it’s a case of might as well.

    AFAIK, ActivityPub allows arbitrary fields to be added to the Profile object, so sites might as well add some sort of adult/nonadult tag (maybe not 18+ as ages of majority differ internationally).

    It would be as useful as alcohol sites putting up splash screens checking users’ ages before they access the website: No, not trustworthy, but checks the box for legal compliance.

    And yes, some users might want to have their interactions skewed toward older folks, again yes, not trustworthy, but it would help some.