Algorithmic/centralized vs Human/community moderation is the largest divide between Facebook, Twitter, and Google vs. Reddit, HN, Twitch, Mastodon, etc. I’m th

Algorithmic/centralized vs Human/community moderation is the largest divide between Facebook, Twitter, and Google vs. Reddit, HN, Twitch, Mastodon, etc. I’m thoroughly in favor of the latter. Algorithms can be used as tools to aid human moderators, but context, discretion, and diversity are important. In the case of bad communities, you have a much more tractable problem in terms of tracking/banning/avoiding what goes on —- as both a platform and as a user.