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  • william ⁂ maggoswjmaggos@liberal.city
    Aug 27, 2026, 5:35 PM

    @cwebber

    decentralized media thwarts the power of money (or force) to shape public opinion. the web gave us speech, fedi does it for attention. of course we're a threat.

    what annoys me is that we're not taking advantage of our power here. most would rather keep their nice but conservative relatives away than grow by focusing moderation only on harassment. we've somehow managed to browse a web full of shitty sites for decades and it didn't become a Nazi bar.

    harrumph.

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  • william ⁂ maggoswjmaggos@liberal.city
    Aug 28, 2026, 8:45 AM

    @jens

    how did the web do it?

    the Nazi bar analogy only works when their presence deters others. with decentralization and a lack of algos, that doesn't happen on the web. it won't happen here either.

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  • william ⁂ maggoswjmaggos@liberal.city
    Aug 28, 2026, 9:07 AM

    @jens

    the vast majority of the web is still not AI shit and while Nazis have always been allowed on the web, it has only been very recently that AI is a problem.

    you're gonna argue that our conservative relatives should never have been allowed to use the same internet we do? that pushing them to instead use a web shared by fascists where our voices were not present would have been better for society?

    the fedi doesn't just moderate harassment. it limits all speech that isn't progressive.

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  • Jens Finkhäuserjens@social.finkhaeuser.de
    Aug 28, 2026, 4:32 PM

    @wjmaggos I would like to introduce you to a bunch of instances I blocked, if you want to know how well "the web" moderates non-progressive views.

    But you have a bone to pick, and from the tone, it's not with me.

    So chill for a week.

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