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Because that defeats the purpose of Federation. If one of the communities becomes infiltrated with nazis or whatever they can be defederated and removed from the the base “pool”.
Say you have a base pool of communities for all “motorcycle” related content. Anything from MotoGP stuff to general dirtbike stuff, who knows. Of course there are going to be some communities about Harleys in there and of course one of those is going to inevitably skew towards white nationalist nonsense. Well there ya go that’s out of the pool with that BS and everyone else gets to go about their day.
If they want to create their own motorcycle pool of communities then so be it but they don’t need to infect the rest of the of us.
I think the community subscription model in the article fixes this (imperfectly). [email protected] can have strict rules while [email protected] could subscribe to it and pancakepurists could subscribe back with the understanding that the rules are slightly different there. [email protected] could similarly link to both those without either having to be mutually interactive.
I think the problem comes from some increased moderation loads by allowing a community to follow another. If I were to put on my paranoid hat it could be used to monitor and brigade a community. I think the solution for that is moderation tools. Banning instances, federation etc. I’m not a mod anywhere so I don’t know what is possible.
Isn’t that addressed in the article by Proposal 3?
Of course there are going to be some communities about Harleys in there and of course one of those is going to inevitably skew towards white nationalist nonsense
In that case, the rest of the motorcycle communities would simply unfollow the problematic one.
Of course if at some point nazis invade people should migrate, but that doesn’t mean you should keep both active at the same time (also, nazis could invade both in parallel, not sure how that solves the issue here)
How hard would it be to set up some default community “pools”? More or less like multireddits I guess.
It would be nice if they took what piefed built out. It’s a pretty nice system!
Piefed, man
Piefed is better
If communities are similar, why not consolidate?
[email protected] even used a script to ping everyone
Because that defeats the purpose of Federation. If one of the communities becomes infiltrated with nazis or whatever they can be defederated and removed from the the base “pool”.
Say you have a base pool of communities for all “motorcycle” related content. Anything from MotoGP stuff to general dirtbike stuff, who knows. Of course there are going to be some communities about Harleys in there and of course one of those is going to inevitably skew towards white nationalist nonsense. Well there ya go that’s out of the pool with that BS and everyone else gets to go about their day.
If they want to create their own motorcycle pool of communities then so be it but they don’t need to infect the rest of the of us.
I think the community subscription model in the article fixes this (imperfectly). [email protected] can have strict rules while [email protected] could subscribe to it and pancakepurists could subscribe back with the understanding that the rules are slightly different there. [email protected] could similarly link to both those without either having to be mutually interactive.
I think the problem comes from some increased moderation loads by allowing a community to follow another. If I were to put on my paranoid hat it could be used to monitor and brigade a community. I think the solution for that is moderation tools. Banning instances, federation etc. I’m not a mod anywhere so I don’t know what is possible.
Isn’t that addressed in the article by Proposal 3?
In that case, the rest of the motorcycle communities would simply unfollow the problematic one.
But in your scenario, all the communities have different niches: GP, dirtbike, Harley
In the article, the scenario is taken about identical communities, like [email protected] and [email protected]
Of course if at some point nazis invade people should migrate, but that doesn’t mean you should keep both active at the same time (also, nazis could invade both in parallel, not sure how that solves the issue here)