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[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

If anyone is expecting modern media to report on how modern media is censoring valid critique of modern media... Yeah that's never happening.

I'm not saying traditional mainstream media is a million times better, we know they aren't.

But it's clear with social media that hiding uncomfortable truths about how their systems operate is just business as usual. In other words, expect "getting the message out" about any specific issue to get a lot more difficult as the pro-Trump social media police come out.

Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Xitter, and Reddit aren't and never were arbiters of truth or genuine places for unbiased uncensored discussion. (This also goes for Bluesky even tho some don't like to hear it)

Also, moderation is not the same as censorship and it is clear that what these giant companies do has more to do with censorship than moderation. They use the thin veneer of the idea of moderation as a shield for these kind of actions.

[–] QuincyPeck 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hear, hear, especially about Bluesky. It’s just as doomed as Twitter. I except it will collapse more quickly than Twitter did now that a playbook is established.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I had an epiphany about this actually.

Bluesky's business model is exponential growth, just like all the others, right?

All of them grow fast until they are so big that all their moderation tools stop working and then they say "Oops we are too big to manage all the racism and hate."

Since Bluesky is built on the same growth model, they too will hit a point of no return where their mod tools can't keep up with the deluge of spammy bullshit.

Mark my words, if growth for the sake of growth is the plan, it will inevitably happen.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I'm kinda glad that Lemmy has a relatively stable user count instead of an explosion.

https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Me too, it literally gives the devs time to manage the growth and develop new tools to manage growth.

The explosive growth is literally the ideology of a cancer cell.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Being a federated platform also gives admins of each instance control over how big they get and how fast. It also means that if someone goes wild and opens an instance to bots/Nazis in mass they will be de-federated by most instances cutting off the damage they can do.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

There are some people that are so comfortable and smug about the rising fascism that whether they mean to or not they sound really into fascism.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

I am soo happy that I never got into the book of faces, despite being in trade school for IT when it was popular

[–] FlyingSquid 9 points 1 week ago

New free speech era on Facebook! Right, Zuck?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

How meta of them

[–] Ab_intra 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm happy I stopped using facebook. I only use messanger now and never facebook. I hate that shit like a disease.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

You're still in their ecosystem and they read your messages and probably are training their LLMs on them, probably.

[–] FlyingSquid 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I wish I could stop, but my small family is spread out all over the globe and I just have no other way to stay in touch with them. This includes my brother, who seems to want to communicate with the family via Facebook.

[–] Ab_intra 2 points 1 week ago

That is the main reason I still have an account but I seldom use it for anything other than messanger... I was planning on deleting my facebook account and make a new one but that plan changed.

[–] Maggoty 4 points 1 week ago

I would love to be able to read what exactly is going on but sadly I can't

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Censorshipception!

[–] ZILtoid1991 3 points 1 week ago

Free speech (Newspeak): The right of the privileged to defame and call slurs the lesser ones without any consequences, including criticism.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

404 media is censoring 404 media articles

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

wow that is an obtuse comparison

that is like claiming the grocery store is stealing from you for charging for goods.