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It suck that they implements karma and collapsing downvoted comments. Two censorship methods
This is ActivityPub, not Reddit. It is optional, democratic and auditable.
People are not sending posts/comment to be approved first, you can post whatever you want. It is a plus if the community found a bad faith actor and tagged them. So I am not forced to see their disinformation campaign.
We all know that most people use downvotes as a disagree button not just to suppress hate speech and any other really harmful opinions. There is a report button for that. Even an opinion based comment could be heavily downvoted
The downvotes and karma do not stop you from saying whatever you want. It just means you have to say it somewhere else. Hence, you are not censored.
When a comment is collapsed , people tend to skip the comment. Hiding stuffs is censorship
It's just improving the signal-to-noise ratio.
The collapsing of downvoted comments is configurable in the user settings, so it's possible to disable it or fine tune it to the way you want it. The discussion is still valid for what the default settings should be
I'm still learning about the karma side, so I don't want to comment on that yet
Should be the opposite, people who want to collapse comment with lot of downvotes should activate it