Like, I keep seeing reddit moderators abusing their powers but rarely they suffer consequences. So I’m wondering if there’s a way to have a public forum without moderators.
That’s called 4chan. You can make a version of 4chan on the fediverse but good luck keeping your hosting providers happy when the content stored becomes more and more vile (just read their wikipedia page to find out their troubles with that)
Put it on i2p. It’s fucking feral there.
The more people in a space, whether that’s online or IRL, the more important moderation/regulation becomes
It’s one of the big reasons why urban city-dwellers and rural people often have very different politics
Spam is as old as the internet. I think a public service with zero moderation is going to have spam without moderation.
If you like nazi bars with constant arguments and nastiness, sure.
Only with some heavy restrictions.
Imagine a forum where you can, by default, only see the messages of people in your allow list.
That way spammers and people with bad intentions will just scream into the void.
Sure. Briefly.
Anonymous forum?
Or only selected membership?That sunny episode is a good example of how it’ll just get exploited
You’ll have another 4chan that way.
Craigslist?
Yes everyone just abuses the people who are acting up until they stop posting. It works great.
Or, more often, the ones acting up abuse everyone else until they leave. Spam. Porn. Spam. CSAM. Spam.
Person who leaves located
I’d be more impressed if you could find someone willing to wade through all that crap.
Yeah, it’s hard work protecting your own space.
