If you want to feel out the edges of the consensus here, see what gets removed.

Ok, on second thought that may be difficult.

Not a popular belief here on Lemmy. Can you try something that hits a little closer to home?

I think that might be stress talking.

Everybody agrees that goodness and beauty matter. All of our stories and movies and ideologies say as much.

But when stressed. When security is at stake. And especially if nobody is watching. Yeah we can become selfish little rats.

It’s my point, is we go up and down like that. From human to rat and back again. Depending on our stress level.

They’ll probably go with a finely tuned matriarch. Sexy yet commanding. And it must be addressed in a tone of subservience. “Please your highness, put on Cartoon Network”

I think they want to replace conventional ui with a universal machine equivalent of a talking head. It could save billions on ui development. If only we would shut up and just swallow it.

Verbose

Ya, something like that. There would be a government man with an account, keeping an eye out. Updating the gov black list as necessary.

How are legal mandates handled in lemmy presently?

However you slice it, if mandates are handed down by the legal authorities, this is the form (black lists, added to local lists, informing filters) it would probably take.

The Democratic system of forum management to which I refer would work basically like this.

You choose who to speak to. You keep a list. Rating, flagging and tagging other forum members. (as opposed to having it done for you by a moderator)

This list can be something that you personally create. It can also be gotten from a friend or somebody who’s opinion you respect. It could be provided as a service, thus emulating the role of moderator. It could also be dictated to you, in the case of legally forbidden stuff. The list that you use might be the sum of several lists, tweaked over time to suit you.

(One term I’ve heard for this is “a system of silos”. Though I don’t really get the reference.)

It’s an idea that’s going around.

You sound like a serf arguing for the need for kings

It’s a democratic way of judging posts. Democracy is good.

Developed further, voting could replace moderators. I’d like to see that happen.

Do away with moderators. Nobody should tell a bunch of peoole how to talk.

Except in the case of spam and trolls of course.

This isn’t really a question.