No power to the membership. All power to the moderators. No courts. No legal process. Moderators’ rule is law. No necessity to even explain or justify their actions. As if it were their house.
There’s always going to be someone taking care of the platform you’re using. You’re free to make your own instance or community too
I agree some platforms need more oversight boards and options for arbitration, in particular when the automated systems make mistakes and there’s no way to fix it.
However that adds a WHOLE LOT of overheard, something that the one Lemmy community you’re upset about does not have the capacity for
Because that is literally the case. The server you’re using right now (for free, mind you) belongs to someone else. That someone provides the service to house your posts and comments, and you really wonder why “they” have the last word?
Imagine you’d open your doors for a bunch of strangers but politely ask them to not make a mess. Someone dumps their garbage on the floor. You ask them to clean up and/or leave, and they reply with an indignant “OMG you act as if this was your house!”
I don’t think the bank is a good analogy, you get a benefit out of using their infrastructure which isnt represented in your example.
It’s more like someone running a makerspace, you can come use all the machinery they’ve put in and produce whatever you want (within some rules of the owner) even in collaboration with others. But they’ve put a clause in the contract that they get a copy of everything you produce there.
In the end you’re getting the benefit of using their machinery and space to collaborate and they’re getting a copy of your content. You can either decide that deal is worth it or start your own space.
If you insist on this example, then don’t forget that the “bank” made you agree to the terms and conditions when opening your bank account, in which it is clearly stated that the cash you deposit belongs to the bank then. If you don’t want to give the “bank” your money, then just don’t deposit it, easy as that.
When you created your account on lemm.ee you had to agree to the terms and conditions of the fediverse. And now you complain about things that you agreed to as if it was some sort of conspiracy to retroactively f*ck over clueless customers. I don’t really get where your issue is.
If you want an online service to publicly house your “treasure” (content) without giving other people the rights to use/censor said content, you can simply create your own instance anytime you want and apply your own rules - but then it will cost you money because servers don’t run on love and sunshine. And if you want that very service to be free of charge and provided by someone else, then you have to play by their rules.
How so?
No power to the membership. All power to the moderators. No courts. No legal process. Moderators’ rule is law. No necessity to even explain or justify their actions. As if it were their house.
There’s always going to be someone taking care of the platform you’re using. You’re free to make your own instance or community too
I agree some platforms need more oversight boards and options for arbitration, in particular when the automated systems make mistakes and there’s no way to fix it.
However that adds a WHOLE LOT of overheard, something that the one Lemmy community you’re upset about does not have the capacity for
An unjust system is a filter that prefers stupid. I think that’s fair to say. And with time the stupid only amplifies via positive feedback.
So it’s a choice between stupid and chaos.
Hmm, tough choice.
So… run a better one and people will follow?
Ya I know.
Thing is, I’m an outlier. I post strange stuff. And the 99% is the opposite. So our ideas of what’s comfortable may differ.
Or maybe I’m just posting to the wrong subs
Oh, that’s what you mean. It’s not so bad in that regard considering anyone can run an instance, there’s no “highest court” that has a final word.
Instance-runners have final word over their own instance, of course, but I can’t see how else that could work.
Because that is literally the case. The server you’re using right now (for free, mind you) belongs to someone else. That someone provides the service to house your posts and comments, and you really wonder why “they” have the last word?
Imagine you’d open your doors for a bunch of strangers but politely ask them to not make a mess. Someone dumps their garbage on the floor. You ask them to clean up and/or leave, and they reply with an indignant “OMG you act as if this was your house!”
Our posts and comments are the treasure here.
A better analogy would be a bank. You deposit some money and then the bank says “this is my money”.
That would be fucked up. Right?
I don’t think the bank is a good analogy, you get a benefit out of using their infrastructure which isnt represented in your example.
It’s more like someone running a makerspace, you can come use all the machinery they’ve put in and produce whatever you want (within some rules of the owner) even in collaboration with others. But they’ve put a clause in the contract that they get a copy of everything you produce there.
In the end you’re getting the benefit of using their machinery and space to collaborate and they’re getting a copy of your content. You can either decide that deal is worth it or start your own space.
If you insist on this example, then don’t forget that the “bank” made you agree to the terms and conditions when opening your bank account, in which it is clearly stated that the cash you deposit belongs to the bank then. If you don’t want to give the “bank” your money, then just don’t deposit it, easy as that.
When you created your account on lemm.ee you had to agree to the terms and conditions of the fediverse. And now you complain about things that you agreed to as if it was some sort of conspiracy to retroactively f*ck over clueless customers. I don’t really get where your issue is.
If you want an online service to publicly house your “treasure” (content) without giving other people the rights to use/censor said content, you can simply create your own instance anytime you want and apply your own rules - but then it will cost you money because servers don’t run on love and sunshine. And if you want that very service to be free of charge and provided by someone else, then you have to play by their rules.