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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[+] [email protected] -8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can moderate your own Lemmy community right now. I'll even subscribe to it. You can be the change you want to see.