RIP social media. What comes next is messy(arstechnica.com)
30 pointsby Bender10 hours ago1 comment
  • pmdr8 hours ago
    > BlueSky’s *highly effective blocking tools*, and even Twitter/X’s community notes feature, which often bridges cross-partisan divides, provide useful examples of possible solutions, if judiciously applied.

    So we have blocking versus openly pointing out what's wrong with something. People do like censorship, alright.

    • jfengel8 hours ago
      You still have the right to speak.

      You don't have the right to an audience.

      • dontwannahearit7 hours ago
        And who gets to decide?
        • jfengel4 hours ago
          There's no decision to be made. It's a right you don't have.

          The decision is where people put their attention. It could be anywhere. Statistically speaking, it won't be you.

        • javascriptfan697 hours ago
          the people moderating the platform that you signed up to post on?

          what do you mean?

          • dontwannahearit7 hours ago
            See my comment below. On HN for example it isn’t necessarily the moderators, it’s the users with downvote power who can influence what everyone else sees.

            So the elite users are the ones who choose. Funny how our communities mirror the social structures we supposedly hate.

            • jfengel4 hours ago
              The site owners chose to implement it that way. That's their right. If you don't like it you can go elsewhere.
            • javascriptfan696 hours ago
              sure but to other users that's a feature and part of why they're here

              it's like going to a cafe and complaining that everyone is drinking coffee

            • mikestew6 hours ago
              “Elite users”? I don’t think that avoiding being an assclown long enough to collect 500 points to downvote status is a high bar to clear.
            • behole6 hours ago
              And? Go somewhere else. I get elite-downvoted semi-regularly but that’s all in the game. You knew the rules when you came here.
    • 2OEH8eoCRo08 hours ago
      I have a right to my own eyes and ears. It's not censorship to block trolls that I don't like.
      • dontwannahearit7 hours ago
        Right. Ergo it is censorship to downvote trolls you don’t like because you do not have a right to other people’s eyes and ears?
        • whattheheckheck6 hours ago
          No its the Algorithms of the platforms that decide to treat the signal of the downvote as an indicator they ought to hide/censorship that information for the quality of the information garden whether it be for ad revenue or eudaimonia
    • customguy7 hours ago
      I think the way blocking gets used and then bragged about to the personal bubble on BS (I wouldn't know about Twitter) is kind of pathetic, but at the same time, I do not mind getting blocked, or put on any of those shitlists, because that leaves me with the people who are either insane, kinda cool, or both.
      • rexpop7 hours ago
        You must be straight, white, and/or male sticking to safe topics approved of by mainstream Big Brother sycophants, because everyone else is subject to a firehose of verbal abuse.
        • Larrikin6 hours ago
          He is bragging about being blocked. Most likely he is also part of the fire hose of abuse.
        • konfusinomicon7 hours ago
          you must be fun at parties
    • hashmap8 hours ago
      And yet I bet you leave your spam filter on instead of explaining to the spam what's wrong with it.