It's not that internet meme communities make some big profound point about society, it's just that the specific thing I'm responding to doesn't make any sense.
It's exactly why anarchists tend to prefer stuff like Mastodon, and why there's excitement for Lemmy federating. Because then we actually could function without moderators and admins having a monopoly on access to the community, it decentralizes and democratizes moderation.
But this happened exactly because they were governed by a hierarchical structure
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It's not that internet meme communities make some big profound point about society, it's just that the specific thing I'm responding to doesn't make any sense.
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It's exactly why anarchists tend to prefer stuff like Mastodon, and why there's excitement for Lemmy federating. Because then we actually could function without moderators and admins having a monopoly on access to the community, it decentralizes and democratizes moderation.
But they didn't purge their opponents.