Reddit’s replacement mods may be putting its communities at risk
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Removing institutional knowledge means real risks for Redditors.

Reddit’s replacement mods may be putting its communities at risk — With institutional knowledge seeping out of the site, poor moderation could have real-world impacts as more misinformation is allo…::Reddit’s moderator purge could have real impacts on reliability and information safety as it rushes to replace mods with inexperienced and poorly vetted volunteers, shows a new report.

  • ObiEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    I think the idea is that through federation/defederation, the fediverse is more protected against this. Right now we’re all mostly interacting with the whole rest of Lemmy besides obvious trolls/menaces because it’s small, but eventually you’ll start getting “neighbourhoods” with more curated instances you wish to subscribe to or not.

    Don’t want to see the mainstream garbage? Then avoid the mainstream instances and curate your own little corner of the internet.