Kirk
Two reasons:
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There are many steps between "I never wish to see any unmoderated content ever again" and "I wish to see unmoderated content in my feed every day". I don't want to block Lemmy.world communities but I also will go insane if I read those comments every day.
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I can't know what those communities are in advance of their being inserted. I don't want the default option for content in my main feed to be "opt out".
This may be an unpopular opinion, but I kind of hate this? I think most communities are lazily moderated and I don't want to have every goon's unmoderated takes on whatever the topic is forced in front of my eyeballs.
The American system is far from ideal but I'm convinced 90% of social media posts decrying a "lack of choice" or "monoparty" are cynical actors trying to make pro-democracy voters feel hopeless. I remember in 2019 all of the "The DNC installed Biden" language was all over Reddit.
I've never seen someone just blatantly lie about primaries not existing anymore though!
Good catch!
I'm loathe to defend Reddit's moderation decision but my experience you can never trust the person being banned to explain why they were banned.
Because it is a post to an entirely different social media site.
Because you can't control human beings? I'm not entirely sure what you mean. The entire reason the structure of ActivityPub and the Fediverse is what it is, is to have moderation not controlled by a single entity. Enforced consolidation is both impossible and would defeat the purpose.
Lemmy "communities" are structurally just modified user accounts. So it seems like it could be possible for one to "re-toot" a post similarly to how it can be done on Mastodon and elsewhere.
What's weird to me is that even after being reminded about it he carried on as if they don't exist?
A cool feature would be to enable community mods to "retoot" posts from other communities, keeping the comments together.
LOL as I was typing it I thought to myself "Ten years ago nobody alive would have any clue WTF this could possibly mean."
Don't get me wrong I am a huge fan of Piefed overall. I think you misunderstood my second point a little, I don't want to be "exposed to new things" in my social media per-se, I want to read my chosen subscriptions (with my chosen social groups) and move on.
I see the "issue" of "divided" communities coming up a lot. But to me, the variety of perspectives and moderation styles on the same topic is a major benefit of the Fediverse (to the point I might describe it as its greatest strength) especially when it come to non-technical or social topics like politics. For example Lemmy.ca users are going to have very different perspectives about US politics than Lemmy.us (hypothetically). I'm not sure that it benefits those users to centralize the discussion (not saying that's what's happening exactly but it is something I see come up a lot).