> People are now arguing to moderate/censor spaces that existed to get away from the moderation/censorship on the regular Web. On the contrary, I go to the fed

> People are now arguing to moderate/censor spaces that existed to get away from the moderation/censorship on the regular Web. On the contrary, I go to the fediverse to escape the lack of moderation on other platforms. Or rather, the way they're moderated. See the last point. > The job of a moderator is not to "rescue" people from what they hear, say, or read. I think the Fediverse needs better discovery mechanisms for instances and how they generally run things, but I am entirely okay with deferring judgement to another party or run my own server (done both, currently on chaos.social). If neither works for you, the official instances are a good middle ground. > That's a false dichotomy. All moderation is human moderation. You misunderstood. When I talk about "corporate moderation", I am referring to moderation choices being driven by corporate interests. Which is usually: as fast as possible, kafkaesque appeal process, whatever is agreeable to most of society is agreeable with us (including rainbow capitalism, but not too queer or angry or kinky please) and, most important for me, entirely devoid of context. I get banned for a week for telling a newspaper to "cease existing", but those telling me to "join the 41%", a veiled way of telling me to kill myself based on a misread statistic about the prevalence of suicide among trans people, get away.