Tony StubblebineJan 15, 2023

A thing we (#medium) need to figure out is in what ways, if any, we need to adjust our existing moderation policy to fit in. I don't want to be defederated unnecessarily but it's hard to even define unnecessary.

I think our existing policies are pretty close to mainstream policies, i.e. mastodon.social

Also, our policies pre-date me joining the company and so I have my own personal learning curve here.

Show threadTony StubblebineJan 15, 2023

For example, looking at mastodon.social and starting at the top.

We do have a healthy sex & erotica community.

If we include them on me.dm, then one rule we could add is that they need to cw their posts?

Ok, we're adults. We know how to scroll past that if, for example, we are at work.

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@coachtony

I would add that Sexually Explicit content and Erotica both need to say that in the Content Warning. There are many reasons for a CW, some of which I might choose to open (chocolate chip cookie recipes) and others I might not (dead animals).
Jan 15, 2023 at 4:36pmWeb
Show threadTony StubblebineJan 15, 2023

@HaplogroupNews

Please forward any chocolate chip cookie recipes that are so good that they need a content warning.

Show threadHaplogroup News    Jan 15, 2023
@coachtony

Ah. All of them for people who are dieting, who have a disorder like anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa*, or for various other reasons. Pictures of food should be clearly marked with the Food hashtag and pictures covered with a CW. That way people reading the global Federated timeline don't get re-traumatized.

* Often binge eating and other food related issues are subsequent to PTSD and C-PTSD.
Show threadsoaprootJan 15, 2023
@coachtony It is one of the things which surprises people new to the fediverse, but yes content warnings on food or alcohol are often a thing here for the reasons mentioned around addiction etc. I'm not sure it is often a server rules thing (policing content warnings is something to be cautious about), but there are content warnings that you do because it is polite not because your admin makes you.
Show threadTony StubblebineJan 15, 2023
@soaproot scaling is the easy part. We already have a team that does medium.com
Show threadHaplogroup News    Jan 15, 2023
@coachtony

I suspect this response ended up in the wrong place. However, I am a bit surprised considering the known stack at Medium.com that your team chose to use Mastodon instead of forking Pleroma or Akkoma.

BTW, please consider changing the number of characters allowed per post from 500 to 2,000 or 3,000. I have found that about 2K is a nice split point between something that I am going to post here and something that I am going to write a full article about.

https://www.draklyckan.se/2021/11/how-to-increase-the-character-limit-for-toots-in-mastodon/

@soaproot
How to increase the character limit for toots in Mastodon – Draklyckan