A good question for Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 (npub1764…nuj0) about Trust and Safety and moderation labour
Q: What role does moderation play in growing the fediverse (context: friends have left the fediverse because of harrassment) -- centralizing moderation labour? Undertraining of moderation among server admins. "Is AP good at this, what can we learn..."
A:
* Trust and Safety is an important part of growth
* Professional training -- even large networks (FB, etc.) struggle with this
* Having a moderation team aligned with your interests is key
* Admission that there are many servers run by hobbyist admins who are unaware of the moderation work involved
* More formal connection between users and their services (e.g. cosocial's membership relationship structure)
julian
npub1ml…2nu5a
2026-08-07 18:35:04 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…tx34
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