[jl6]

My experience with Mastodon was that you can choose between:

* Echo chamber islands with purity spirals that enforce the banning of Problematic instances

* “Free speech” instances where all the refugees from the above go, but which are just a different flavor of cesspool

Moderation is hard.

[Karrot_Kream]

Yeah likewise. One of the reasons (well I'm an old-time SSB fan) I'm interested in Bluesky is that defederation isn't really a thing and so the failure modes of splintering communities isn't as big of a deal. When individuals have more power and mods have less, the impact of politics on the community would probably be more diffuse. Or that's the hope anyway. The mods = gods era of the internet was always a colorful one.