Ideally everyone should have his account hosted on a small instance managed by people you can trust, ettqer because you know tqem personally or beqause you trust someone who trust them.

Having huge instances which host a significative part of the userbase kinda goes against tho concept of decentralization. But in practice it rarely work that way

that’s why if you disagree with censorship/moderation policy of an instance, you can move to another one. You can’t do that on reddit.

The idea behind lemmy (and every other decentralized platform) is not that you can’t get banned. The idea is that f the mods of one instance decde to go crazy, are bought by malicious people, or if there is an hostile takover (like what happened to freenode), then the network isn’t compromized, and ideally there are plenty of other instances with a moderation policy you agree with and where you can recreate an account

yea…unfortunately this is not happening. Back in the days where AI didn’t only meant LLM or generative algs, people tried to predict crime with algorithms. It have been shown that they exibhit the same bias humans do because they learnt for humans. One of maiy examples: https://www.propublica.org/article/machine-bias-risk-assessments-in-criminal-sentencing but i think i read stories like this happening well before 2010.

But wait ! There is more ! This isn’t something new at all. Before police used algorithms, even before computers existed, police forces tranied dogs to help them in their missions (defending people, detecting drugs…). Guess what ? The dogs also learnt the bias of trainers. https://daily.jstor.org/the-police-dog-as-weapon-of-racial-terror/, https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2011/01/07/132738250/report-drug-sniffing-dogs-are-wrong-more-often-than-right are examples for both categories.

So yeah. Unbiased AI, or dogs, or unicorns won’t happen for as long as we humans training them are biased.

Honestly i prefer that than people who become violent, or spend tons of money without realizing. That one is just funny (and at least he still remembered it was her girlfriend lol)