Ben KirzhnerJun 28, 2023
aka ginger

moderating is part of social media

if youre making a social media platform and not moderating

youre not doing your job

i so do not care that its in beta. if youre not prepared to protect the people on your platform this is not the job for you.

stop making things for people if you do not care about people

Jun 28, 2023 at 2:01pmWeb
Show threadmaegulJun 28, 2023

@gingerrroot
I feel the platform diversity issue is a factor in the issues you highlight.

If mastodon's dominant, then the range of decisions made in its design has a stranglehold on the people and communities that can thrive on the fediverse. Some platform diversity may play a role on the "positive" side of the cultural coin, no?

As for whether the fediverse could do anything better ... how many moderation tools are platform generic? Given the above, it seems unsafe for them not to be?

Show threadmaegulJun 28, 2023
@gingerrroot None of which is to argue with your points ... just to kinda highlight that a bit of tolerance of beta platforms and awareness of the siloed software issues of the fediverse might be generally helpful in the bigger picture of things.
Show threadmaegulJun 28, 2023

@gingerrroot
On the point of platform diversity ... and interesting friction here might exist between group-based and microblog based platforms??

kbin/lemmy allow blocks to occur at the community level, while nearly all community mods impose topic specificity and can ban users just from themselves.

So I wonder, and reddit people would know more than I, whether the moderation dynamics are different on such platforms compared to here? Would a nazi even pop up in my feed if didn't look for them?

Show threadcymenJun 30, 2023
@gingerrroot Hm, interesting point actually. Would a sufficiently powerful "ignore user" also work? (Of course registering new users would have to be sufficiently hard, for example requiring a phone number.)