[shadowgovt]

Moderation is a back-stop service with plenty of candidates in the pool; companies fire new moderators for coming into the job with the wrong "taste" all the time because it's much, much easier to cycle someone out and grab someone new than to train someone who has the wrong "common sense."

[mulmen]

TBH I think this is a feature of human nature. It's impossible to impose your will and opinion at scale because you have to rely on other people with their own will. You can have small, curated communities, but you can't build Twitter without it devolving into, well, Twitter.

The entire concept of modern social media where every site wants to be everything to everyone is wrong. Even the "fediverse" gets this wrong IMHO. There's plenty of room on the web for all of us. Links are features, not a threat to your retention metric.