Oddbean new post about login | logout Any ELI5 of the history of explodingheads and why they moved away from Lemmy?
Exploding heads was a Libertarian conservative instance. Free speech. There were still obvious rules like no calls for violence, doxing, and death threat ect. Most instances defederated us because EH allowed offensive Memes, conservative news, and posting our opinions. They didn't like that. They constantly called us Nazi extremists, bigots, racists and so forth just because we don’t believe their ideology. They didn't like the fact that we were not getting banned for speaking our minds. So they would defederate to isolate us. As punishment for wrong think.
A big reason was that the instance was always going down due to ddos attacks, shitty federation code. Kapow got tired of it. It's more decentralized here so easier to keep up.
#Lemmy is fundamentally flawed. It allows instance owners to be petty dictators and use defederation as a #censorship tool to stop their users viewing information the instance owner does not agree with. I handled all the Exploding Heads reports about posts and 99.9% were political in nature, nothing more. I personally got banned from Lemmy.ml for sharing an article from the New York Times that the moderator did not agree with. In the end, I wanted to invest my time and resources in Nostr because it at least has a chance of being censorship resistant. #Nostr is still very much a work in progress, but it is heading in a much better direction.
Here's them talking about making it to where users have to pay or some shit to be able to vote. Fucking narcissistic as hell dude I'm telling you. https://image.nostr.build/6c21df1647584ab9e33c0b199fe16f588cf543dd42e33aa49c20c2fa3311d9d7.jpg
Paying to vote actually isn't the worst idea. The problem is that it's so easy toake a new account votes don't mean much. On nostr there is a option to sort by zaps. 1 zap is extremely low but is a pretty good indicator that a bit is coming from a real person. I don't think it should be mandatory but allowing a user to sort by zapped comments by present more useful information.
So many typos but I think you can make it out.
