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The biggest obstacle to a YouTube competitor is that YouTube themselves can barely turn a profit. The operating costs are ginormous, beyond what most people realise.

Given the prevalence of bots and attempts to pass off fake data as real though, is there still any way to reliably differentiate good data from bad?

Guess it’s about time for Google to kill the project, then.

I wonder who could have foreseen the porn ban leading to this… Oh, wait.

Yeah as I explained earlier, that won’t happen because it’s been proven to be a golden opportunity for abuse.

Correctly implemented, a block system would allow them to see your comments but not reply. I think that’s essentially the major part of what you’re looking for?

1. It’s a Wikipedia link away, it doesn’t require a PhD to read and understand. Why are you assuming I need to study it to know what it is?

2. Would you like to state your views? Because it certainly sounds like you have some that are pent up inside.

I want the ability to cut bs out of my stuff

What are you talking about? Nobody’s disputing that. You seem to have lost the thread of the conversation, which is about preventing people you’ve blocked from seeing your posts. At that point you’re not cutting BS out of your stuff, but other people’s.

Based on feedback so far, it only seems to work for random users. Definitely doesn’t work for me on kbin

im saying I disapear to them

This approach is incredibly open to abuse. Reddit implemented this to a lesser degree and abuse already started happening. By blocking everybody who disagrees with you, you can start threads that are only visible to lurkers and your supporters, creating a warped perception of public opinion and false consensus.

nobody can respect that others are allowed to have different opinions.

It’s the paradox of tolerance social contract. I will respect their right to an opinion as long as they uphold that contract. Unfortunately, many don’t.

Do share the alternative with us, that’s universally supported and not owned by a corporation.

Or maybe there are already instances out there that don’t defederate and leave it up to the individual?

It only takes one to defederate. Any large instances that stay neutral will eventually be defederated with by other instances, as per the beehaw example recently. So your best option would indeed be to host your own small instance.

I have to say that there’s a level of irony in asking for bans and central controls on content on a platform that in its very nature decentralized and supposed to be empowering.

There isn’t any irony. That’s the whole point of the decentralization - it empowers everybody to be part of the communities they wish to be in, and not participate in those they disagree with. We have the power to leave any instance where we disagree with the admins and move to a new one.

Is kbin a community, or a platform for communities to run on?

Both, that distinction doesn’t work very well for the new fediverse model.

Satire doesn’t work as well on fedi when everybody has to check what instance they’re on AND what instance you’re posting from to figure out if you’re serious

They are altering the deal. Pray they don’t alter it any further.

Actually, pray they do.

Many mod teams are biding their time while they make plans in private, so that’s also something to consider.