Honestly I would have joined beehaw except I disagree with the no downvote policy. It forces you into a terrible tradeoff where either you upvote literally everything that isn’t bad, but then have no way of actually indicating truly good content, or else only upvote the truly good content, but then have no way of indicating bad content. You could always block users that post bad content, but that’s a super heavy handed approach with no real nuance, and doesn’t help improve the community.
That is true. But there is a hidden upside to it. On Reddit, people often used the downvote as an “I do not agree with your views” instead of “this comment or post is of good quality for discussion.”
Post the wrong view in an echo chambered subreddit and you are downvoted to Oblivion.
Moderation with federated communities is going to come down to general consensus. That’s easy to do with communities that deal with facts and reason, and it explains a lot about how right-wing and hate groups fall apart because nothing is actually based on anything. You can’t prove someone is wrong if like… everyone is.
They can’t federate. Everyone has a better idea of the truth.
We can, because the truth is what the truth is and like-minded people can collect and agree on it.
I’m hoping this is the push needed for a Reddit alternative to gain enough traction without being a cesspit like Voat was.
I’m liking what I see so far today on the fediverse so far but yeah - moderation is key
yep, and with what I see on Beehaw, I’m happy with how the moderation looks
Honestly I would have joined beehaw except I disagree with the no downvote policy. It forces you into a terrible tradeoff where either you upvote literally everything that isn’t bad, but then have no way of actually indicating truly good content, or else only upvote the truly good content, but then have no way of indicating bad content. You could always block users that post bad content, but that’s a super heavy handed approach with no real nuance, and doesn’t help improve the community.
That is true. But there is a hidden upside to it. On Reddit, people often used the downvote as an “I do not agree with your views” instead of “this comment or post is of good quality for discussion.”
Post the wrong view in an echo chambered subreddit and you are downvoted to Oblivion.
Moderation with federated communities is going to come down to general consensus. That’s easy to do with communities that deal with facts and reason, and it explains a lot about how right-wing and hate groups fall apart because nothing is actually based on anything. You can’t prove someone is wrong if like… everyone is.
They can’t federate. Everyone has a better idea of the truth.
We can, because the truth is what the truth is and like-minded people can collect and agree on it.