Brace yourself: it is about to get worse. r/RedditAlternatives has some interesting posts saying how Reddit is about to ditch their modmail in exchange for their “chat” function (that has never worked correctly… ever).
*rolls eyes* “Great”.
I might be wrong, but I think this whole issue boils down to four vices brought from Reddit: assumptions, decontextualisation, genetic fallacy, oversimplification. Those four on their own already make social media hostile, but if you couple them with political engagement (otherwise a great thing), you’ll get people who genuinely see no difference between “they euthanised a 11yo dog with cancer” and “they kill puppies”.
Or between “free Luigi” and “$CEO_name needs a Luigi in their life”. Both show support to the same cause, but only the later can be reasonably understood as a call to violence (to the point it’d bring the admin troubles.)
This is a reference to one of the episodes within Innuendo Studios’ The Alt Right Playbook series, and more generally how people talk emotionally not on top of but in place of logic - exactly as AI does today except these kids have been doing it on the Internet since Eternal September and more widely speaking since before human beings were homo sapiens.
i.e. it’s not going away anytime soon, and since we keep throwing out all of the old wisdom, we’ll need to find replacements, as we FAAFO all this live. e.g. Lemmy threw out karma as some kind of measure of someone’s age and popularity, but… what does it offer to replace what karma was used for, on forum boards that even predated Reddit by decades? Nothing, which makes this akin to 4chan where the burden of examining each and every message purely on its own merits a daunting and dare I say grueling task at scale, especially for mods and admins.
Lemmy was only ever going to work as a tiny forum board - it simply refuses to grow.
Then again, Reddit is somehow worse so… again, brace yourself, because the next wave is coming!
*rolls eyes* “Great”.
I might be wrong, but I think this whole issue boils down to four vices brought from Reddit: assumptions, decontextualisation, genetic fallacy, oversimplification. Those four on their own already make social media hostile, but if you couple them with political engagement (otherwise a great thing), you’ll get people who genuinely see no difference between “they euthanised a 11yo dog with cancer” and “they kill puppies”.
Or between “free Luigi” and “
$CEO_nameneeds a Luigi in their life”. Both show support to the same cause, but only the later can be reasonably understood as a call to violence (to the point it’d bring the admin troubles.)The card says moops after all…
This is a reference to one of the episodes within Innuendo Studios’ The Alt Right Playbook series, and more generally how people talk emotionally not on top of but in place of logic - exactly as AI does today except these kids have been doing it on the Internet since Eternal September and more widely speaking since before human beings were homo sapiens.
i.e. it’s not going away anytime soon, and since we keep throwing out all of the old wisdom, we’ll need to find replacements, as we FAAFO all this live. e.g. Lemmy threw out karma as some kind of measure of someone’s age and popularity, but… what does it offer to replace what karma was used for, on forum boards that even predated Reddit by decades? Nothing, which makes this akin to 4chan where the burden of examining each and every message purely on its own merits a daunting and dare I say grueling task at scale, especially for mods and admins.
Lemmy was only ever going to work as a tiny forum board - it simply refuses to grow.
Then again, Reddit is somehow worse so… again, brace yourself, because the next wave is coming!