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 well, money or a commitment to small user bases

@going_to_maine @leigh It's the commitment to small user bases, really.

People keep building up huge instances - and I'm not really sure why, tbh. It seems to be an unconscious "growth mindset" inherited from the commercial platforms, maybe mixed with "if I mod / admin a big instance I'm important". But... that's where you need big money and big resources, and there's no viable way to get them.

Donation / volunteer models work great for small instances. They fall apart fast over 150-ish users.

@notafurry @leigh Perhaps if your small instance gets bigger than the moderator's dunbar number you have a problem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number
Dunbar's number - Wikipedia