Finally deleted my LinkedIn account!
After putting my account into “hibernation” for the past few weeks, I finally closed it. But I’m still looking for work. Thankfully I can still find positions (SRE and software dev) by just going directly to the company’s site and finding a Jobs page.
Good luck to everyone else out there looking for work!
I’m not suggesting that at all. What I want is the next logical step after federation, which is basically data being distributed.
Basically, I want BitTorrent, but for social media. So there would be no instances, only communities (so no community@instance, just community). Right now, if lemmy.ml goes down, all of the communities hosted there go down and people would need to migrate elsewhere. With a distributed system, if someone drops out, the community goes on because it doesn’t live on any one system. Lemmy could mitigate that with a feature to move a community, but you still have the fragmentation issue.
The tricky part is moderation, but I’m thinking that could be done through votes and reports/blocks. Basically, if you vote the same way as someone consistently, you’ll start to trust their votes, reports, and blocks more than other uses, and you could enable automatic moderation to hide stuff based on someone else’s moderation.
So you would no longer need to rely on a centralized set of mods for a community, you’d instead pick mods yourself based on who you agree with. So you and I could have a separate set of “mods” for the same content. At any time, you could inspect the moderation to see if you agree with it, and your account would learn what you like and don’t like. This kills the “power hungry mods” issue that kills so many communities (i.e. I’ve left subreddits purely because of mods), though I’m a little worried it’ll push people even more into echo chambers.
The important thing, though, is that it puts the control directly into the hands of the users, with a set of tools to customize it. And there could be multiple competing clients to handle the moderation differently. I think it’s a bit more democratic than what Lemmy provides.
I absolutely agree.
My point is that I see federation as a stopgap to something better, not the destination, and it’s totally reasonable to disagree. I just think federation will have similar problems as centralized services, and that it’s inevitable once it grows to a certain size.
I agree. Federation isnt the end. But right now, we have to build this up and abolish the old, not abolish the new imo. Thats why I say federation everywhere now, concentrate everything on making this work and worry about the next thing afterward.
The reason I say this is also because I founded a couple of very successful businesses because my autistic brain has a very significant advantage: intense focus. Focusing your efforts on one thing is insanely important and the only way to really get somewhere.
Have you ever wondered why there are better systems, fairer systems but they never take hold? The reason imo isnt (only) because the 1% actively fight them and lead the rest to fight them as well but because the anarchists and leftists cant agree on a goal to pursue.
They burn themselves out without much to show for it. Constantly shaming each other for not being leftist enough, voting, not voting, etc. Thats the only reason why autocracy works. Right wingers have one enemy: leftists. Leftists have hundreds because they’re all different shades of left.
If we actually for some reason got the idea to ask what our smallest common denominator is, we would actually het somewhere. But the little narcissist in most of us doesnt want that because their idea was „better“. Its the old curse of „too smart for your own good“.