The internet was set up by people who all deeply, deeply, deeply believed in the idea that in a pool of ideas the best will rise to the top. That pure freedom leads to the best humanity has to offer. It was the time of Richard Dawkins memes and evolutionary thinking. Dawkins, and all the new atheïsts, presented it like this was the way nature actually worked and that we should set up the internet accordingly.
All websites from twitter to reddit to even Lemmy has been set up in this manner… And whenever Lemmy when it gets popular, will suffer the same fate as all other publicly upvoted popularity aggregators. It’s all based on the same principles.
We’ve figured out that freedom of expression can only exist when there are strict rules around it and the enforcement that comes with that.
Despite interesting debates. I think they all ignore the big issue: the internet.
The internet was set up by people who all deeply, deeply, deeply believed in the idea that in a pool of ideas the best will rise to the top. That pure freedom leads to the best humanity has to offer. It was the time of Richard Dawkins memes and evolutionary thinking. Dawkins, and all the new atheïsts, presented it like this was the way nature actually worked and that we should set up the internet accordingly.
All websites from twitter to reddit to even Lemmy has been set up in this manner… And whenever Lemmy when it gets popular, will suffer the same fate as all other publicly upvoted popularity aggregators. It’s all based on the same principles.
We’ve figured out that freedom of expression can only exist when there are strict rules around it and the enforcement that comes with that.
Works inside a closed system! Too many bad actors/sites across borderlines all directions in the real world.