Re. moderation, I think you’re right to be skeptical of all-volunteer moderation, but I see it as a return to the phpBB days. My big worry is that once spammers

Re. moderation, I think you’re right to be skeptical of all-volunteer moderation, but I see it as a return to the phpBB days. My big worry is that once spammers/trolls start their own instances existing instances will have to lock down federation to other known instances, similar to what’s happened with email. I’d argue that the things you don’t like about twitter have more to do with its business model than tweet-form content in general.