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This sounds like a libertarian-exclusive problem to me, and Lemmy's culture leans away from the Libertarian / Reddit style. The overall plan seems to be: major
by dragontamer 3y ago
This sounds like a libertarian-exclusive problem to me, and Lemmy's culture leans away from the Libertarian / Reddit style.
The overall plan seems to be: major centers of relative openness (sh.itjust.works and lemmy.world), a few hybrid locations, and finally well curated gardens (ex: Beehaw.org).
The different groups will federate, or de-federate, with each other as they see fit. You're right in that the more libertarian-leaning instances (ex: sh.itjust.works) are experimenting with lack of controls... but even they see various instances as toxic and are willing to ban them wholesale.
I don't think anyone is going with the extreme-libertarian Reddit style "everyone is welcome" anymore. There's too many shitty communities out there who are attracted by that.
The overall "Most are welcome" signposts are good enough for now.
- johnnyanmac 3y ago>Lemmy's culture leans away from the Libertarian / Reddit style. They are most vulnerable, but I see it as the natural pressures of the network effect. Unless you are some sort of status symbol, you can't reject 99.9% of visitors and expect to grow your community. So being lax in the beginning is necessary to growth. But being lax is exactly what ne'er do wells will take advanadge of, so it's a careful balance between growth and community fostering. I say this mostly to assert that early users are the most valuable and usually the most opinionated ones, so those politics you speak of can be hard to balance. Don't want to end up too much like a dictator, but you also can't be a pushover either.