Seems like the only time we have leverage as voters is during the election.

And you predictably used that ‘leverage’ to make things much worse. Now we have 700 people routinely killed in one day under Trump, with total apathy from preople who used to cry ‘genocide’. Everybody with common sense knew that Gazans would be way worse off with Trump in the WH. Both the big increase in killings under Trump and the increase in apathy about the killings under Trump were things that we already knew were going to happen under Trump back when irresponsible people were crying “genocide” during the election. There was never any chance that you were going to improve things by doing that and the entirely predictable result in increases in both killings and apathy.

I always call it the Department of Government Enshitification

They will do it so long as not doing it greatly increases the amount of busywork, spam moderation and troll moderation.

Then they are unfit to be moderators because they are subtracting value from free discussions. I would much rather have to little moderation than lazy heavy handed moderation.

Lenin was not “targeting” what we think of today as “the middle class”.

He damn sure was. And him and Stalin were also targeting all the other socialists. And Stalin was also targeting random working class people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excess_mortality_in_the_Soviet_Union_under_Joseph_Stalin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gulag_Archipelago

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0967067X97000111

https://www.chinafile.com/library/nyrb-china-archive/who-killed-more-hitler-stalin-or-mao

https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2010/09/naimark-stalin-genocide-092310

https://www.reddit.com/r/history/comments/ezpp8k/how_many_people_did_stalin_actually_kill/

https://allthatsinteresting.com/how-many-people-did-stalin-kill

https://www.britannica.com/place/Soviet-Union/The-U-S-S-R-from-the-death-of-Lenin-to-the-death-of-Stalin

Lenin and Stalin’s top targets was exterminating all the other socialists, not right wing people. All the members of these 2 socialist parties were either killed or forced into slave labor camps.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Revolutionary_Party

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menshevik

Hey, I’ve got unpopular opinions. No, it’s usually someone who is trolling.

A lot of people can’t tell the difference and just assume that someone with an unpopular opinion must be trolling.

If/when it does get big enough, what would be a good solution?

The best solution is to do nothing and don’t try to bring reddit’s groupthink enforcement flaws to lemmy.

Unpopular opinions deserve to be silenced? Terrible idea. We already have way too much group think.

One of the things I miss about reddit (and slashdot before that) was that if you got downvoted/downmodded a lot in a short amount of time, it would tell you to slow down

That was a horrible system. If you didn’t get positive karma on your very first post, your account was ruined because you could never dig yourself out.

It’s not about being elitist.

What’s the difference? They shouldn’t be doing it.

when is the last time you came across a post on Lemmy that is specifically for/about women or women’s issues

The same amount of time I came across a post that is about men’s issues. A really long time. The vast majority of comments should not be about identity politics, unless it is a feature of the specific community.

Does that feel good?

I just want the absolute value of my comment’s karma to be high. That means it has been read at least that many times.

“bad actors” simply means “unpopular or politically incorrect opinions”. Fuck that.

You mean the exact same stuff that’s on Reddit, often copied directly from Reddit?

No. We mean all the stuff that Lemmy gets that Reddit either doesn’t get at all or gets a day later than Lemmy.

“Trump bad! Look at this latest bad thing Elong did!” posts a day is not quality content

This bad thing that Trump did looks like very worthwhile content.

https://lemmy.world/post/26990437

Give it another year or two and we’ll have some website that tallies the karma of lemmy users. Clout is an insidious disease that grows like a social cancer.

It has already happened with this piece of cancer.

https://join.piefed.social/2024/06/22/piefed-features-for-growing-healthy-communities/

Find people who have low karma

When someone is consistently getting downvoted it’s likely they are a problem. PieFed provides a list of accounts with low karma, sorted by lowest first. Clicking on their user name takes you to their profile which shows all their posts and comments in one place. Every profile has “Ban” and “Ban + Purge” buttons that have instance-wide effects and are only visible to admins.

but my experience you can never trust the person being banned to explain why they were banned.

It almost doesn’t matter though because we know rando-bans are a common thing on reddit. Just because some are getting legit bans does not mean that there are not many others getting rando-bans.

Billionaires are not bourgeoisle. Bourgeoisie means “middle class”. When Lenin targeted the bourgeosie he was targeting the middle class, not the billionaires.

People should be leaving Reddit. They are poor stewards of our content for innumerable reasons.

Their rando-bans and content and word restrictions are fundamental flaws with the platform.