There's A LOT of discussion about content moderation right now and very little of it touches on the fact that we've all lived on the big social sites for the last decade-plus thanks to the massively exploitated labor of mostly-invisible moderation workers. The social web at scale wouldn't have happened without these laborers, who in addition to shit wages, have been exposed to literally every imaginable horror.

If we're remaking this world, let's do better on that front.

Anyway, as you hear about fuckups on moderation and poor decisions by a handful of volunteer mods on servers that have grown by hundreds of thousands of users in a week, keep that in mind.
@dansinker I appreciate that Eugen himself addressed the two incidents publicly and they were resolved. More transparency and maturity by the 29-year-old than any of the previous social site owners I've known.
@molotovcockatiel I mean I don't even know which two incidences "the two incidents" would be in this context. There are a lot more than two incidents.
@dansinker There were two major incidents (yes, incidents) here to which I thought you were referring. Those were the reasons I saw for all the "discussion about content moderation" on here in the past few days. I guess you were referring to something else. Apologies.