• antihumanitarian@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    This is almost entirely misdirected. The success of Wikipedia is from its human structures, the technical structure is close to meaningless. To propose a serious alternative you’d have to approach it from a social direction, how are you going to build a moderation incentive structures that forces your ideal outcomes?

    Federation isn’t a magic bullet for moderation, alone it creates fractal moderation problems.

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      8 months ago

      When you’re a hammer, all problems look like nails. That’s most engineers’ perspective to social problems.

      Source: am engineer