Look at her numbers compared to Biden and look at Trump’s numbers compared to his numbers last elections. People didn’t come out for Harris, which was essentially them supporting Trump as the end result is his election.

You realize the conversation started because Trump reversed the ban on the sale of some type of bombs which Harris wouldn’t have done, right? Because right away it shows a pretty meaningful difference.

In my case hexbear, beehaw, lemmygrad…

In your case lemmygrad…

Sys admins would user the tools they currently use to delete illegal content, mods would do their job and block users who post it on their communities.

Mods AND admins power tripping were an issue on Reddit, part of the move to Lemmy came from people being fed up with admins, not mods, remove one from the equation and you’re left with mods that only have control over their communities which can easily be replaced, get banned by an admin here and it’s your whole history you’re losing.

Good thing because I’m tired of you not understanding.

You would have sys admins but no admins that could do anything to users themselves. Which I had already made very clear.

The automated tools are what current admins use to clean up their servers because users keep uploading illegal content to Lemmy even with the current system. I already mentioned that we well. Unless you somehow believe that the admins currently check every single post being made on their instance or something?

Here’s a tool to check federation status: https://federation-checker.vercel.app/

Your instance is defederated from pretty big ones as well.

Why would users want someone with the power to just wipe their account from existence and the ability to decide what their experience will be in their place? That’s just Reddit again but with even more admins, nothing was solved. My solution involves sys admins that are there to make sure their servers work and that delete illegal stuff from them and that’s it. They have no more power over the user experience than AWS sys admins have power over the user experience on Reddit, because, once again, the goal is to decentralize the back-end independently from the front-end.

My instance is a pretty big one and is defederated from other major ones because of the admins on those other instances. That’s tens of thousands of users I (and any other user on my instance) can’t interact with because their admin said so.

They would need to filter the content being pushed to their server just like current admins have to do even if they elect not to host NSFW content. There’s tools to automate the process. If it’s a non issue with the way things work now then it’s a non issue with what I’m proposing.

No, it’s not, each instance hosts its own content, and users are assigned to an instance.

What I’m talking about is making the end user experience the same as any centralized website, the hosts are just hosting parts of the total database (randomly assigned, with backups in mind so everything is hosted on multiple servers, with the option not to host content flagged as NSFW) and people create front-ends to access and interact with that database. Users aren’t assigned to a specific server, their credentials are just part of the database.

As I mentioned in my other comment, think like any other website but instead of relying on AWS to host the data on a bunch of servers all over the world, it’s people like you and me and just like Reddit before the API scandal, you let devs create apps to push and pull data.

From a user perspective that removes the admins from the equation entirely (people weren’t complaining about the sys admins on Reddit, they couldn’t care less about the servers), users are their own boss and filter their experience as they see fit, mods still exist but no one has the power to suddenly device you just can’t interact with tens of thousands of users all of the sudden just because you signed up from the wrong place (in their mind). If an admin decides to stop hosting, the data they had on their server is backed up on other servers and things are rebalanced between servers to make sure there’s still a backup of everything.

It’s all explained in the link I shared, you do like any other website but instead of using multiple servers owned by a single company it’s multiple servers owned by random people and devs can create a front-end to access the data found on those servers.

There’s because you don’t understand the infrastructure I’m talking about.

I get your point but society decided it would rather have private interests managing social media so 🤷

Decentralization is one solution though.

Ok buddy, keep on trolling 👍

No instance, no admin with power over users themselves, only community mods.

The server owners would take care of the content hosted on their server and would need to filter it based on their local laws (to remove CSAM for example, just like current admins need to do), but otherwise this type of decentralization would make the website pretty much a neutral zone that operates outside of specific laws since the people hosting the content (and its backups) could be located all over the world.

https://sh.itjust.works/comment/16065977

Basically, decentralize the back-end independently of the front-end, eliminate admins altogether, mods still exist but they only have power on their communities, they don’t have site wide power.

And you’ll still be free to create your own community, you can even create it on your own instance if you want. It’s not perfect, but there’s ways to work around issues like that on Lemmy.

And you’re just jumping from one instance to another with admins that can censor you again and again. You create your own instance and other instances’ admins can censor you by defederating from your own instance.

I mean… You’re on a form of social media and you’re complaining about pro Palestine censorship, seems like you have the solution right in your face.

You’re free to start your own social media where you’ll allow it, that’s how free speech works, as long as the place where you’re sharing your message is owned by private interests, the owner can censor you all they want.

Yes and no, you still have admins here, just like on Reddit, you can get locked out of interacting with thousands of people at the whim of your instance’s admin and the only recourse you’ll have is to join another one instead…

As far as I understand TikTok is used as the main example but it will apply to all similar Chinese (or just Bytedance owned?) platforms.

Shitter can censor you all they want, they have zero obligation to allow you to say whatever you want as it’s a privately owned website. You can run your own website and say what you want on it though, just like you can put whatever message you want on your car or on your front lawn and people are free to read it or ignore it.