TedModeration, who does it better:
A) A company with millions of dollars in funding, and the backing of multiple investors with social media experience.
B) A handful of volunteer queers
(And to be fair, like, it only works because we have some awesome folks helping moderate this place and have ~700-2k active users at any time. If we had 300k users I'd figure out how to hire folks)
mvu@esdin I mean it also works because our mods *care*...
"We need to protect our community" vs "Extra effort in protecting this demographic will have good optics and lead to profit"
Alexander The 1st@esdin To be fair, I think part of the problem also involves other languages; I don't know the demographics of your server, but the issue with Facebook is that they had some English moderators...and much fewer Burmese moderators...which is how Myanmar got a foothold in what they were able to do.
@AT1ST I'm specifically talking about Bluesky right now. Meta is a whole different beast at a whole different scale
@esdin Ah, that's fair.
The weird thing for me is - isn't bluesky still in invite only mode?
You'd think they'd have moderators scaled to that, and slowed down to check if there's gaps in their moderation team.
@AT1ST You'd think that, but they continued to invite folks and now have ~300k+ users and still no head of Trust & Safety 
Kevin Teljeur ❄️
Shambolic Matter
Mike Kasprzak 🦖@esdin my brain won't stop trying to merge volunteer and queers into volunqueers
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Tindra@esdin @TindrasGrove @mike @soatok yup
salute the flag,
emberquill 
@esdin A handful of volunteer queers tends to be better at solving social problems than companies are, no matter how much money they throw at the problem.
Eppy NWSC) A handful of queers with clear and transparent guidelines for moderation and a "Break in case of Discourse/Drama Booze-requiring emergency" piggy bank that takes all donations not used to run the server... which keeps them around after whatever drama/discourse to update the aforementioned clear and transparent guidelines with new examples of what/not to do.
I've seen WAY too many meltdowns/implosions that were a result of "The [queer] admin and moderators wanted to run the server like "High School, but this time we're the popular kids" and the only thing that's was "good" about that was that the instance Suddenly Going Away in a Fit Of Pique was only PART of the network.
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SmittyHalibut@esdin the implicit part of A) that makes this much easier to guess is: “with a fiduciary responsibility to monetize their users to sell to their customers.”
gavinisdie 
@esdin B honestly
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