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What do you propose?
I'm not sure that I have anything in particular in mind, but I do think that it should be something we all think about. If we deem a solution necessary, we could totally come up with something.
One broad idea could be to encourage people with different viewpoints who still discuss them civilly. Help them set a good example.
You can always make a new server with a federated system and convince users to switch.
I actually did seriously consider doing that but I decided against it. Beehaw has almost everything that a social platform needs and I'd rather help it grow than try to create something new.
What do you think is missing?
Measures to keep it from becoming another reddit far down the road. I'd love if this could be my forever home here. 15 years ago when reddit was started it had a similar vibe to here and I'm sure few people thought it would turn into the cesspool it is today. If we could put preempive measures in place to avoid that early on this could be something beautiful.
I think the desire of the admins of Beehaw to not make this a part or full time job will go a long way. But the federated nature of Lemmy can be problematic in a way that I'm not sure has any good answers.
How so?
The nature of federated protocols gives the instances with the largest popularity more influence over the protocol. It's also not great for privacy or the ability of message senders remove to prior messages sent to other nodes in the network. There are problems for smaller instances being DDOS'd by simply having a popular account on another instance drawing attention to a message or account on the smaller instance either benignly or maliciously. Among other concerns.
Thanks!