So I was mostly offline (and therefore, off Mastodon) for the past 3 days, and catching up with stuff now... and am NOT AT ALL SURPRISED that yet another centralized social media platform (Spoutable) is speed running the content moderation learning curve. This ALWAYS happens.

https://www.techdirt.com/2022/11/02/hey-elon-let-me-help-you-speed-run-the-content-moderation-learning-curve/

FWIW, it happens with fediverse instances too, but at least here we have choices, and it creates incentives for instance admins to be better.

Hey Elon: Let Me Help You Speed Run The Content Moderation Learning Curve

It’s kind of a rite of passage for any new social media network. They show up, insist that they’re the “platform for free speech” without quite understanding what that actua…

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@mmasnick the site is garbage. It's slow full of errors that he hasn't fixed. I'm enjoying watching it go up in flames.