Moderation, 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)
@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 
@esdin @AT1ST They have a smaller team than I’m part of (which is to say, tiny), and my manager wouldn’t let a product out of the door in that state. They haven’t hit anything like an minimum viable product. Still inviting users is an act of hooliganism.