Even when Twitter’s T&S infrastructure was at its most functional – which I’d say was 2021-mid 2022 – I sometimes saw appeals on content decisions, suspensions, etc. take 2-3 months unless I escalated to personal contacts at the company.

I keep seeing folks expect #moderation and community management decisions on volunteer-run fedi instances to happen in hours – not even days – and jumping to defederation when they don’t get immediate responses. It’s going to burn out so many admins, and makes me sad and worried about the sustainability and scalability of our communities.

#fediverse #fediadmin #contentmoderation #communitymanagement #mastoadmin #mastodon

@leigh I noticed that my instance is in a community maintained block list on GitHub. The only thing I can figure out is that it probably ended up there during the influx of users end of last year because one admin somewhere didn’t like that the c.im admin took some time to respond to messages (the admin was overwhelmed with everything then). Because the blocklist is being copied around, it is basically impossible to get removed from it. And it isn’t like we users get clear error messages about this sometimes leading to hours of troubleshooting.