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Why do you suppose people will select sites with good moderation? Is there any more reason to expect this, than that they would join a non-conspiracy Facebook g
by _benedict 5y ago
Why do you suppose people will select sites with good moderation? Is there any more reason to expect this, than that they would join a non-conspiracy Facebook group today?
- AnthonyMouse 5y agoPeople do join non-conspiracy Facebook groups today. Most Facebook groups are actually non-conspiracy Facebook groups. People don't want to be spammed with balderdash all the time. The problem with Facebook is that they do what amounts to inverse moderation, site-wide. They promote inflammatory nonsense because it builds engagement. Ordinarily this would cause people to leave, but the site is so large that the network effect locks people in and enables the company to survive abusing its users like that. If there was a larger number of smaller sites, or a federated network in which individual subgroups handled their own moderation, people would abandon the ones that operated like Facebook because they're severely unpleasant and the network effect wouldn't be strong enough to lock them in.