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Re:PeerTube: Free software to take back control of your videos by pmoriarty on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @07:17PM (#30448633)
"If you want a community without bad actors, bigots, cranks, etc, then it has to have rules and moderation, which means censorship."

There are alternatives to rules, moderation and censorship that are still effective at filtering out undesirables.

As far back as more than 25 years ago, usenet news readers had kill files, scoring and filtering at the client level.

For various reasons, the mainstream social media platforms chose not to give their users these tools, but that doesn't mean they don't exist.

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Re:PeerTube: Free software to take back control of your videos by krapp on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @11:17PM (#30450203)
USENET more or less burned down in flames because killfiling the lunatics didn't actually stop them from taking over the asylum. Both Facebook and Twitter (especially Twitter) give users copious abilities to block users and filter content... and guess what? It's still considered censorship, and it doesn't work at scale.
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