[tootie]

I said the same about Mastodon v Twitter, but decentralized solves nothing. It just makes it impossible to complain to anyone. We absolutely need centralized and uniform moderation rules and guidelines. And it needs sustainable funding to operate. There are not really any major tech challenges to achieve this. You could build a 140-character microblog in a weekend. The problem is attracting enough users to generate the requisite network effects and building trust amongst those users. Both of which are human problems and very, very hard to do.

[cwkoss]

This model makes every user moderate their own follow list: if you're transitively pushing spam/hatespeech/garbage to the people who follow you, they will unfollow you or be at risk of pushing the same to their followers. Upvotes are effectively 'vouching' for content, and so you should only upvote judiciously.

Attention is the reward for moderation.