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103 sats \ 6 replies \ @Undisciplined 18 Apr \ parent \ on: Is downzapping the new censorship? meta

I wasn't following the saga of this post. Money is a hell of a moderator.

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61 sats \ 4 replies \ @Scoresby 18 Apr

Yeah, it's not about the content, I don't think.

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165 sats \ 2 replies \ @Signal312 18 Apr

I think it is. I was almost never downzapped, until I started posting content about the Charlie Kirk assassination, Israel, and the Iran war.

I also never had my posts disappear off the front page instantly, because somebody did a massive downzap, until I started writing on these topics.

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49 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby 18 Apr

Fair points. But to be clear: taking away downzaps doesn't necessarily fix this: in a web of trust model, if a user doesn't happen to be already highly trusted by other users, couldn't a similar dynamic occur?

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1 sat \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 18 Apr

In such a situation, wouldn't you just lack visibility until a trusted person zapped you?

Absent downzaps, there would be no way to nuke content.

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105 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 18 Apr

It's not entirely unrelated either. I doubt most boosted posts would receive as many downzaps.

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1 sat \ 0 replies \ @denlillaapan 18 Apr

Same ... Quite crazy

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