Dani — MLT(ASCP)Nov 26, 2022

Reading threads of people brainstorming on how to moderate the fediverse and it's obvious a good 80% to 90% of these people have never had to moderate anything remotely as toxic as social media. Or anything at all.

I moderated a default subreddit. I don't care if you paid me a living wage. I would have burned out the same way I burned out being unpaid. It has nothing at all to do with what you get in return. It is quite literally soul-crushing, and my subreddit wasn't even as toxic as it could have been.

I want things to be the best that they can, but they need to be addressed be people who have had heavy experience with this kind of thing. Also — you are never going to find a one size fits all answer. Is everyone going to have to go with this one solution or get defederated?

I dunno, man. I want a solution, but so far the things I'm hearing that excite people are to me, with the moderating experience I have, not reassuring.

Show threadTom Bellin 

@warkittens The fun of the game is delivering toxic content to "normies" who are powerless to stop you.

On Twitter, FB and reddit, etc. ownership jealously hoards power. There's no reason mastodon had to follow that model.

The answer to the moderation crisis is for Mastodon to empower regular users to handle moderation on their own. We should be able to add CW and mute posts and limit users for our server in real time.

Nov 26, 2022 at 4:09amWeb
Show threadTom Bellin Nov 26, 2022
@warkittens believe me, making that process less prone to abuse is a MUCH easier problem than demanding that server admins and volunteers wade through all the worst things on the internet.