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How to compromise between privacy and anonymity vs. moderation and spam control on social platforms? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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anonymity and privacy seem to come at odds with a social platform's ability to moderate content and control spam.

If users have sufficient privacy and anonymity, then they can simply use another identity to come back, or use multiple identities.

Are there ways around this? It seems that any method of ensuring that a banned user is kept off the platform would necessitate the platform knowing information about the user and their identity

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (6 children)

What is even the value of content moderation being a thing by a separate entity (the platform admins or community mods)? Why not just filter content on your own? Why do we like having others choose for us what content we see?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Mastodon splits the difference, giving individual accounts a number of tools to mute or block content or accounts, but also providing instance-wide tools to admins and moderators. Lemmy and Kbin are several years newer than Mastodon, so I assume that they'll eventually catch up in terms of moderation tools.

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