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Don't necro old threads. Agreed with the other poster.
But taking the opportunity to talk about hardware keys, it would be great if steam supported them. I don't run the steam app.
If everybody could just agree on fido2 and make that work everywhere I'd be very happy, and secure
Well, the thread is locked now and these were the tops results on google. So that discussion isn't going to happen now. We're going to have to wait until some tech catastrophe happens and the solution is going to be security keys.
I don't think it's valid to complain about "necroing" threads when they're the top google result. And it's a bad moderation practice to close threads at all when the discussion is not over, a sign of our diseased communication spaces and the awful concentration of power that moderators have to shape public discourse to their liking.
I addressed your issues in a different comment in the same post. Please see that one.
About the job of moderators: moderators have an incredibly important job, keeping the discussion relevant to the participants of the forum. There's a lot of noise out there, and without the moderators the noise would drown out any signal.
Luckily however we have lemmy! You can run a discussion forum here with any moderation rules you want.
I can filter the signal on my own just fine. I wish I could fingersnap all moderation out of existence because everywhere I look I see abusive moderators getting between me and the information I want. I have ZERO confidence that Lemmy will ever avoid this fate, the best clue to this is how every topic is concentrated on a single instance (easy choke point for moderators to control the discourse)
This is very unfortunate but Lemmy will eventually become just "reddit with extra steps" because the Lemmy moderators do not believe in fediverse decentralization.
You can moderate your own Lemmy community right now. I'll even subscribe to it. You can be the change you want to see.
You misunderstand, I am against the very concept of moderation. I do not believe in silencing other people. I don't need people going around deleting other people's stuff. I have no difficulty ignoring the stuff I don't want. And you might be tempted to point to some horrible person somewhere and I would say, I just don't watch these people. It has become a much MUCH bigger problem that everywhere I go, the stuff I'm looking for has been deleted by moderators, the people I want to talk to have been unpersonned from the internet. I see moderators as an obstacle to overcome, not a baton to wield against others.
Right. So if you run your own Lemmy instance you can leave it unmoderated. You would be in control to not do anything. And it would be the Utopia you want it to be. You have full control here.
You don't have to wish for other people to do it you can do it.