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Re:The obscure social media app beloved by China's tech scene by pjc50 on Friday May 17, 2024 @10:55AM (#40390609)
> (Let's not fool ourselves. We have moderators and downvotes, not because they work well, but because it's a convenient lesser evil)

Well, indeed. This is just anarchism vs. policing but for text. It gets re-litigated over and over again; different places move the boundary to different places. But very few dare to have no moderators or no police, and those that do are usually fairly immediate disasters. I'm sure you could find Bakunin quotes that accurately describe the moderation dilemma from 100+ years foresight, if you were so inclined.

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Re:The obscure social media app beloved by China's tech scene by swayvil on Friday May 17, 2024 @12:54PM (#40391874)
The most palatable solution (historically speaking) is democracy. Yes I'm being dictated to but at least we're all doing it to ourselves.

A modern technologically enhanced refinement of that is the best that I can think of.

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