While @[email protected] figures out how to survive while #moderating great accounts like #MissKitty, #Threads is blowing smooth the fuck up, 400M, 10x Bsky, w/ uselessness. Not going, but #Bluesky has SERIOUS problems. All the meaningful statistics have cratered. Flatlining not good. Open door all the way.

Bluesky reveals 2026 roadmap a...
Bluesky reveals 2026 roadmap amid 40% usage drop

Decentralized social network tackles feature gaps as Threads overtakes X

🤦🏼‍♀️ Attending a zoom session with 4 panellists, one of whom is the moderator.
Unfortunately the moderator is stepping into the other hosts' spaces to tell their own story.

Please don't do this.

If you are moderating a meeting/panel/webinar/chat, don't keep taking it back to you, even if it seems that your story is relevant. Let the other panellists speak about their areas of expertise.

#moderating #panels

The 2025 #roadmap for the #ActivityPub #WordPress #plugin aims to finalise the full ActivityPub experience for WordPress:

🧩 Seamless #publishing, #following, #reading, #interacting, and #moderating within the Fediverse.

🏆 Key areas of focus include implementing following, improving actor modelling, enhancing moderation tools, developing a Reader experience, and exploring Direct Messages and a Client-to-Server API.

👉 https://activitypub.blog/2025/06/11/our-2025-roadmap-building-the-future-of-wordpress-federation/?Fedizen.EU #Fedizen #Fediverse #ActivityPub #News

Moderating Cross-Platform and Cross-Instance Abuse on Decentralized Networks | TechPolicy.Press

Kaustubha Kalidindi calls for a framework to help moderators reconcile conflicting instance policies when faced with cases of cross-instance abuse.

Tech Policy Press
The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News

Anna Wiener writes on Daniel Gackle and Scott Bell, the content moderators of Hacker News, a popular online tech-focussed forum owned by the startup accelerator Y Combinator.

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The Dark Reality of Moderating for Meta | Informer

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Moderating the Fediverse: Content Moderation on Distributed Social Media by Alan Z. Rozenshtein :: SSRN
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4213674#maincontent

#SSRN #Moderating the Fediverse: Content Moderation on Distributed Social Media #Alan Z. Rozenshtein

Moderating the Fediverse: Content Moderation on Distributed Social Media

Current approaches to content moderation generally assume the continued dominance of “walled gardens”: social media platforms that control who can use their ser

Finally, someone pointed out to me another snag in encryption recently. Encryption doesn't just hide the post from malicious actors, it can also hide it from the server itself: #staff already has difficulty #moderating direct messages, as they require reporting to work, and this adds another layer. Anything that can't be decrypted by the server software would even bypass locally based automation: we couldn't even set up a bot to watch for people saying the N word in the DM system, which is the number one way it's abused.

I don't necessarily think staff should be reading people's private messages without permission, it's definitely not an ability I would want to see implemented, but I worry that encryption could preclude us from implementing more sophisticated #moderation tools. Without it, the best we could do is have some sort of javascript-based system in the viewer itself recommending the user report a post when it detects things.

Maybe we should, but it needs to be considered.

Trump’s judges latest revolt against the Voting Rights Act

At the very moment the Supreme Court appears to be moderating on voting rights, GOP judges are going after America’s most important voting rights law.

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#TikTok Deletes #404Media Video About #TheGuardian Deleting #BinLaden’s ‘Letter to America’
TikTok is #moderating #eporting and news about extremism in the exact same way that it moderates actual #extremism. https://www.404media.co/tiktok-deletes-404-media-video-about-guardian-deleting-osama-bin-ladens-letter-to-america/ #journalism
TikTok Deletes 404 Media Video About The Guardian Deleting Bin Laden’s ‘Letter to America’

TikTok is moderating reporting and news about extremism in the exact same way that it moderates actual extremism.

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