Because for anything that is built, someone else will set out to destroy or manipulate it for their own purposes. For example, spammers will use social media to try to boost their SEO and as an avenue for free advertising.
As much as I’d love if everyone could act with the best intentions towards others at all times, there is too much motivation and reward for anti-social actions. As a result, we have to have a complex system of rules and enforcement.
Power corrupts, but that doesn’t mean that we don’t need positions of power…
Because some of us remember how the internet was without moderators, and how it went to shit early 2000’s when “everyone” started using it.
20-25 years ago mods were rarely needed beyond booting a couple of spammers and getting rid of the occasional goatse and tubgirl. Now platform-wide efforts are needed to combat csam and gore.
There has to be an algorithm. A crowdsourced wisdom. Individuals can’t be trusted. From spez to the very mods here.
Whenever I hear someone suggest “an algorithm” without elaborating further, I’m usually correct in presuming that it makes as much sense as “a wizard will use magic”. The other times it’s usually someone suggesting blockchain. Sometimes it’s both.
Or, hear me out, collaboration across networks. That’s what lemmy does. And it’s nothing new.
I offered an alg up there in the thread. Browse for 1.5 seconds, you’ll find it.
And I saw it. What’s your fix for botnets and brigading?
An algorithm gets programmed… By who? T Its the cover Facebook takes. “Well we didn’t mean to radicalized thousands of people, we just had an algorithm feed them addictive and increasingly political videos until they were”.
well I offered one up there in the thread.
