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There's ultimately no getting around that kind of segmentation. You can't make everybody read what you want them to read. If you don't let people control what
by swatcoder 2y ago
There's ultimately no getting around that kind of segmentation. You can't make everybody read what you want them to read.
If you don't let people control what they encounter, whether by signing up for aggressively moderated communities or subscribing to automated curators or just manually black/white-listing as they see fit, they'll find themselves dissatisfied with all the noise and move on.
Unmoderated social media is not a solution to "zealous communities" and "samethink" -- through self-selection, it just becomes a haven for whatever zealotry or samethink happens to organically dominate it.
- jfengel 2y agoLack of moderation is a kind of moderation itself. It allows the loudest and most unpleasant voices to drown out everything else. "Shout louder and have a thicker skin" isn't really conducive to thoughtful discussion. It seems to me that "say whatever you want and others have the ability to decide not to listen" is about as good a compromise as you can hope for.