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I think some time in the future we're all going to wake up to the realization that the mods were the problem and a big part of why the right wing are growing while the left are dying out.
In the past couple decades the left has fumbled so hard they have completely destroyed themselves and their ideals with almost no sign of recovery for the next few decades.
No...
Because you can make an instance right now and be the admin with full control, and have it be the lawless wasteland you claim everyone wants.
You would fail just like all the others before you, because even if someone thinks they want that, they quickly realize they dont when they go somewhere like that.
This is bog standard low empathy thinking from the right.
You assume you're a "silent majority" and everyone thinks like you, because you lack the ability to put yourself in someone else's shoes
For fucks sake, voat is what you say people want, look into how even reddit maga enjoyed that once they finally found a place "free of moderation".
Spoiler:
When they realized they couldn't ban dissent and it wasn't a safe place, they left.
Which is my point a little bit. But you assume it fails because people don't want it. Leftist need to change to want it if they want to survive.
For fucks sake you're all suppose to be leftist and you can't even re-create a co-operative based approach to your digital space. But you're all going to say "we need to universalize X, Y or Z" but when it comes to your cat post we need a hierarchical system where ultimate control is given to a select few faceless individuals??
There is no future for the left if you rely on moderation. Moderation will inevitably become the tool of tech billionaires to control our digital spaces. Being able to stand up new instances is not a defense to protect these spaces against that. The left needs spaces to disseminate information. Spread ideas and build momentum. The only logical conclusion becomes that the minute it is popular enough to be useful then it will also be popular enough to for the right to target. If lemmy does not develop ways to guard against control by a select few faceless individuals then it will go the way of reddit if not worse. Without spaces to grow, then the right will continue their trend of capture people of all ages to their ideas and principals.
And those exist...
You want a space
One centralized location where everyone is, and no one is allowed to do any moderation.
That will never happen, because no one wants to hang out with a bunch of Nazis and bigots, and that is going to be the one group who will abso fucking lutely show up in droves to a social media website with zero moderation and a leftist lean.
If you legitimately still don't understand any of this, you're gonna have to ask someone else for more help.
What spaces are those?