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Show the cast this replies togotta self-police, bottom-up style. top-down policing (of any variety) won't work and brews confusion, doubt, and eventually resentement/ resentment. my mental model is simply: 'internet cult' 💅🏽
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And we already had the tools to self-police: at the platform level, an algo that buries unpopular content (though we’d still need a marketplace of algos to mitigate bias); at the channel level, mod rules; and at the individual level, the mute and block actions. We definitely didn’t need a top-down purity pledge, we just needed more refining of these tools. The new owner trying to unilaterally reshape the norms from the top is exactly the kind of cultural hegemony that I’m despairing over
