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 that's a very good arguement for keeping instances small, diverse, and responsive.
@mstrmustache small instances have the same problems with people flipping out over non-instant responses as larger ones do, in my experience so far
@leigh correct. The point being that as free and independent moderation is an integral aspect of the #fedivere then the core strategy is to minimize any potential disruption by keeping it localized to small instances rather than having large groups disrupted.
@leigh TLDR: bigger/more formal does not equal better and will typically lead to worse outcomes.