Nicholas WeaverNov 24, 2022

Mastodon's federated design and lack of moderation are a huge weakness. I'm white, male, and therefore don't get much abuse.

But Mastodon's idea of how do deal with abuse is literally 'self help', which is not scalable and not viable long term. Some niche communities may successfully migrate, but overall it won't work.

Lot of other architectural problems too.

My recommendation: Keep your Twitter account, when it finally goes chapter 11 and competent management takes over, move back.

Show threadBálint SzilaksziNov 24, 2022

@ncweaver Hard disagree, Mastodon moderation is already much better than Twitter’s ever was.

Usually it’s thrown around that you need at least 1 full time moderator per 100k active users

Based on 2020 numbers Twitter had around 1500 FTE in moderation, that’s around one for every 150k DAU.

Mastodon has 7.5 million users atm, and thousands of instances, but let’s say for argument’s sake 3000. That’s one volunteer moderator for every 2500 users.

Volunteers already outscaled twitter.

Show threadBálint SzilaksziNov 24, 2022
@ncweaver assuming a volunteer mod is only maybe 10% as effective as a full time employee, it’s still 25k vs 150k. And this assumes only 3k mods for 7.5m accounts, where there are a.) more than 3k instances b.) more mods per instance than 1.
Show threadBálint Szilakszi
@ncweaver big instances might suck in moderation, but small - medium sized ones are absolutely better on average than Twitter ever was.
Nov 24, 2022 at 4:57pmWeb