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We need more alternatives to Reddit with different moderation practices that allow competing narratives to surface. I used to view Reddit as "what's popular on
by yosito 6y ago
We need more alternatives to Reddit with different moderation practices that allow competing narratives to surface. I used to view Reddit as "what's popular on the internet?", but it's definitely become more "what's the Approved Narrative?" these days and though I do think there's plenty of danger content that calls for violence or is some other form of abuse, it's frustrating that there are many subs in which questioning the Approved Narrative will get censored.
I think content moderation could be done by the community flagging problematic content. Flagged content could be temporarily hidden, with the reason it was flagged. The OP could then write a short defense of the content, and then a "jury" of randomly selected users (who are over 18) could vote on whether to permanently remove the content or to allow it. Content couldn't be flagged again for the same reason if the jury had previously approved it. There would be a public record of content removal decisions, and perhaps even a restricted way to somehow request the removed content as a matter of public record, without surfacing it into public view.
Obviously, there would need to be some experimentation to get a better system. Which is my whole point. I wish there were more systems experimenting with this.
- BiteCode_dev 6y agoIs there a Tor alternative to reddit?
- geranim0 6y agoIt's not just happening on reddit.The whole media industry works like this. If your point of view does not fit within the 'accepted bounds', it will not get the attention it should get.
- neskiredk 6y agoAttention is one thing. What scares and frustrates me is censoring by banning accounts, removing post, and to a lesser degree echochamber downvoting hidding the content.
- bananamerica 6y agoThere is Tildes. It’s open source and non-profit, maintained by donations and has privacy by default. The community is heavily moderated and, while we do have liberty, we do not venerate free speech. There’s a great focus on civility. Most of our users are also on Reddit, and Tildes creator also created Reddit’s /u/automoderator. Image posts do not exist and we usually prefer medium to long text and videos that are dense with content. It’s not entirely formal though, and there are avenues for conversation and personal expression. The announcing post: https://blog.tildes.net/announcing-tildes https://blog.tildes.net/announcing-tildes Extended docs and the philosophy of Tildes: https://docs.tildes.net/philosophy https://docs.tildes.net/philosophy Tildes' content is open for anyone to see: https://tildes.net/ https://tildes.net/ We have a subreddit: /r/tildes with a permanent thread for invites and there are invites for everyone.
- cousin_it 6y ago> The community is heavily moderated and, while we do have liberty, we do not venerate free speech. There’s a great focus on civility. If someone made a civil argument with citations, leading to a conclusion you find immoral, but you didn't have the expertise to find errors, would you delete it or leave it up?
- camccar 6y agoEasy to say leave it up. Then you get a large Nazi community form. You don’t want your platform to be about Nazism. But you also don’t want to ban subjective things
- bananamerica 6y agoI don’t know I’m not a moderator. It’s hard to say without a concrete case, but if such immorality was also against Tildes principles than yes, probably. Tildes is definitely not a place for free speech absolutists.
- cousin_it 6y agoThen it's not a place for me. If some claim is true, I want to be able to learn that it's true, no matter whose principles it's against.
- osobo 6y agoThat reminds me: What happened to WT Social? For a while it was a shiny new thing and then it just kind of fizzled out.
- sproketboy 6y agohttps://saidit.net/ https://saidit.net/
- d0mine 6y agoAny new resource will be either too small or it will contain only "approved content" or it will be labeled white-supremacist or similar (if it is a free site, controversial/revolting content may be added by adversaries).