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"A Billion Nazis at the Table" - The Fediverse model proves contextual moderation by real humans is both easy and affordable. The presence of Nazis on corporate social media implies at least a tacit a (www.staygrounded.online)
submitted 1 year ago by JustinHanagan@kbin.social to c/technology@lemmy.world
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"If you’ve ever hosted a potluck and none of the guests were spouting antisemitic and/or authoritarian talking points, congratulations! You’ve achieved what some of the most valuable companies in the world claim is impossible."

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[–] vacuumflower 1 points 1 year ago

Rebecca Watson had a nice breakdown of how Wikipedia avoided this:

My whole experience of seeing articles raided by Azeri and Turkish users in English-language Wikipedia, and the way discussions there go, says that they didn't avoid it. Well, maybe only the specific case of German NSDAP fans. Not the phenomenon as a whole.

And also "Wikipedia" includes its non-English spins, there are two things about them - 1) each one is different and has different problems in general, 2) various kinds of evil are well represented.

If we remove ourselves from the Nazi\Turanist\tankie\flatearther\etc problem, I've also seen harmless geeky articles about software etc removed because of being "too niche" or something (sometimes, but not always, presented as lack of good sources, because of course these would be underrepresented in what that ignorant fuck of a moderator would consider a good source), so there's an "aggressive normie" problem too.