this post was submitted on 13 Sep 2023

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Hypothesis: Insufficient moderation tools lead to instance protectionism, which leads to a decline in the overall discussion quality on Lemmy (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by blue_berry@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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[–] thisisawayoflife@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

The reality of it is that the platform wasn't well thought out. The primary motivation was to copy Reddit functionally from a users perspective. That moderation tooling wasn't even much of an afterthought is telling considering the language choice.