Everyone I have something very important to say about The Agora.

The Problem

Let me be super clear here to something people don’t seem to understand about lemmy and the fediverse. Votes mean absolutely nothing. No less than nothing.

In the fediverse, anyone can open a instance, create as many users as they want and one person can easily vote 10,000 times. I’m serious. This is not hard to do.

Voting at best is a guide to what is entertaining.

As soon as you allow a incentive the vast majority of votes will be fake. They might already be mostly fake.

If you try to make any decision using votes as a guide someone WILL manipulate votes to control YOU.

one solution (think of others too!)

A counsel of trusted users.

The admin, top mods may set up a group to decide on who to ban and what instances to defederate from. You will not get it right 100% of the time but you also won’t be controlled by one guy in his basement, running 4 instances and 1,000 alts.

Now i’m gonna go back to shit posting.

    • LizardKing@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      1 year ago

      I’m not on an alt. I’m getting upvotes because I’m right and you’re wrong. What the fuck are you even talking about? Are you trying to troll? Is this your sad attempt at trolling?

      You clearly have no idea what you’re talking about. Just stop trying. Your username alone proves that you’re a bullshit liar and here in bad faith.

      Go away.

      • Black Conservative@sh.itjust.worksOP
        02·
        1 year ago

        You have not even remotely addressed my concerns. You have not disproven them. They are demonstrably true. Your refusal to address them is further proof it’s a valid concern

        • HaveYouTriedCats@sh.itjust.works
          1·
          1 year ago

          Given that your account showed up immediately during the defederation of sh.itjustworks discussion and the removal of a certain account and community, I think the bad faith argument is valid.

          • MomoTimeToDie@sh.itjust.works
            02·
            1 year ago

            For one, a ton of new users are coming in from reddit as of recent. Hardly seems unusual to complain if an instance that seemed like something they’d enjoy makes changes they don’t enjoy.

            Secondly, why is it bad faith if he came from another instance after it was defederated? If he enjoyed the content here, but was blocked from actually interacting with it, would it not be a reasonable decision to make an account here?

        • God@sh.itjust.works
          0·
          1 year ago

          What is demonstrably true should be demonstrated to demonstrate its demonstrability.