Huh, http://post.news founder who knew nothing about social media, suddenly discovers that moderation isnโ€™t just a word that starts with โ€œm.โ€ If theyโ€™re already struggling with < 50,000, whatโ€™s 5 million users gonna look like?
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@shoq Unless someone is blatantly racist I don't report or something on that level. But I don't hesitate to block people who irritate me.
@RC yeah but u have to remember that there are lots of people that will report posts for not being racist enough, and they never feel bad about it.
@dango_ Good grief. I'm sure you're right. Gross.
@shoq They call them Posters? ๐Ÿ™„

@owlislost @shoq โ€œsee whatโ€™s up and whatโ€™s going downโ€?!

When do they think this is? Sounds like a scene from โ€œThe Mod Squadโ€ (1968-1973).

@shoq maybe itโ€™s bad that the only prerequisite for creating massive social media platforms seems to be โ€œcan persuade Marc Andreessen that this is a good ideaโ€
@Ashton @shoq hi Marc, I have some juicy personal data to mine and sell. Can I have $100M?

@shoq โ€œwe are heavily relying on your flags to moderateโ€

Thatโ€™s not going to scale.

And asking everyone to be nice is about as effective in this case as asking a roomful of toddlers.

@shoq I mean, the very premise of the website is laughable: remember the good old days when social media pure and there was no spam, two chickens in every garage, bla bla blahโ€ฆ
@shoq I'd bet they figure out they are going to need a moderation team pretty soon.... Fortunately, we know where they can find 4400 content mods that are looking for work...
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@shoq Yeah this message has major newbie energy to it

@shoq

It's just a simple fact and a matter of raw numbers. If you're going to run a social media site open to the public you're going to need *a lot* of moderation. That's some heavy lifting, and until the day comes when AI is at a trustable and effective level, that will cost *a lot* in terms of human hours and real dollars.

Anyone who tries to go around that simple fact is not going to be in for a good time. That is unless what they want, as apparently Space Karen does, to run a cesspool of unmitigated filth.

@petteriusa @shoq True. At the very least the Mastodon fediverse has some thought behind its infrastructure to deal with moderation issues. It's far from perfect, but better than the alternatives.
@shoq I am sure Hive will TOTALLY NOT run into the same issue /s
@ppn @shoq speaking of hive and Marc andreeson in this thread, whatever happened to Clubhouse? Remember the three weeks when that was a thing? I do bc they had zero privacy or como and we were all trying to point that out before A16z invested all that money into it.

@bbennettesq @ppn

Now that you mention it, I haven't heard it mentioned in at least 6 months. Is it still alive?

@shoq @ppn ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™€๏ธ

@shoq Its looking more and more like I made the right call by coming here.

the fact i already had this account for 4 years before i actually started using it tells me I had a sense even back then that this was worth holding on to.

@shoq Oh, of course post is in way over their heads. Get popcorn.
@shoq Someone complaining about financial scams at a company backed by a big crypto booster?
@shoq would love it if this post had provided clarification on whether e.g. "trans kids should be allowed to take to take puberty blockers" is a "position"
@shoq many fleeing Musk and Twitter is crashing according to fired x employees. I wasn't thrilled with Twitter anyway.