@jeffjarvis @malwaretech Well said, Mr. Hutchins. I think you’ve captured the full range of pros and cons in one piece.

There will absolutely be moderation-related drama in the future, possibly forever, because that is a human problem rather than a technical one, and requires human solutions, not technical solutions. But you’re right, that drama will be completely different than the sort of drama that most people are used to seeing, and the responses will be dramatically different, too.

On twitter, it seemed like the biggest problem (for me, a cisgender white man) was the presence of people devoted to hateful trolling. On mastodon, so far the biggest problem for me is the tendency to too-quickly defederate without due process, a problem caused by the people most likely to have been targets on twitter. I assume some of it is post-traumatic, in fact.

The incentives are completely different, and so far they seem to be pointing to better places. I think things are going to look radically different a year from now, but I definitely have no fear that mastodon will still be active a year from now.