I started to notice some people posting NYT, Bloomberg or other websites with hard paywalls, that leads to people in the comments that are unable to read the article to discuess the headline without any analysis and some times spreading misinformation, which cannot be countered by the article, due to the paywall.
Which bring me to this: Why does no one thought about blocking hard paywalled articles for the sake of quality of discussion?
It isn’t that people like paywalled content, it is that people don’t like blanket rules for a decentralized system like the fediverse.
Banning anyone who posts inaccessible shit isn’t a blanket rule, it’s mere common sense.
If it’s inaccessible it’s spam, and spam is intolerable by definition.
But it isn’t inaccessible for a lot of people, who either pay for it or bypass the filter.
Not everyone owns every video game. Should we ban discussion on video games?
It would be up to mods of different communities to implement those rules. I rather have some common sense rules vs. a free for all where Lemmy is full of paywalled content, trolls, and AI garbage. Are you saying you’d like Lemmy to be trash?
Paywalled content is still useful for some users who either bypass the paywall or are already paying for it, so a blanket rule that bans it would be limiting what could be discussed.
What does paywalls have to do with trolls and AI garbage? That some communities allow it (and others don’t)? I’m fine with some communities having that trash, because I can easily ignore it.
What you want is centralized rules that apply to all of lemmy but somehow voluntarily?
I’m not sure what you’re saying. I’m saying that individual communities should have rules against paywalled content, depending on what the community is. Many should have blanket rules against paywalls since a vast majority cannot access them.
You sounded like you didn’t want any rules whatsoever so that’s why i asked about trolls and garbage. You either moderate a community or you don’t.
Where did I say that?
Not wanting blanket rules for all communities doesn’t mean not wanting any rules.