r/The_Donald now on Lemmy - Lemmy Online
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It was banned on Reddit because it is racist, hatefull and spread Conspiracies. In my new community I expect the exclution of racist communities. It is easy now with defederation. Nazis can do whatever they want on their instances, but the instances I want to be part of should not amplify their shit and flush it into our timelines. The instance-admin of !thedonald@sh.itjust.works [/c/thedonald@sh.itjust.works] did not reply to my message. Big instances seem not to defederate with them. The new TD may not be a success, the point is not to give Nazis a platform like it is happening now. Fans of TD are racists. Where are the instances that show face against racism? edit: to contact the admins: @donut@sh.itjust.works @TheDude@sh.itjust.works @smorks@sh.itjust.works
  • Difficult_Bit_1339@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    20·
    1 year ago

    We’re not just running polls and blindly following the results. I think the the goal of having a community discussion place is to help identify the people who are actively trying to participate in the process and then take their views into account in deciding the future of things.

    Ultimately, like all instances this is functionally a dictatorship because @TheDude runs the server and has the ultimate say in everything. He’s created an area where people can voice their opinions and his intentions appear to be to parse the discussion and make an informed decision based on the results.

    I doubt he’d be fooled by some position suddenly having 2500 bot comments saying ‘Nay’.

    • Yote.zip@pawb.socialEnglish
      132·
      1 year ago

      I just briefly looked at an agora post and it seems like that’s exactly what’s happening: lots of “Aye” with no discussion. Scrolling through more, people seem to be using upvotes/downvotes for voting.

      By all means if you have a system in place to handle bots that have access to chatGPT then don’t mind me, I’m just saying that bots should be taken into account lest humans get outvoted.

      • Difficult_Bit_1339@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        10·
        1 year ago

        It’s not an easy problem to solve and I agree that it has the potential to become a large problem going forward (LLMs make the bot problem even more difficult to deal with).

        I’ve no idea how TheDude decides what opinion to follow but, so far, he’s piloted the instance as well as anyone could expect so I’m willing to keep riding along to see where things go.

      • can@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        There are votingg threads and discussion. lemmy doesn’t have a flair system.