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Let me hijack this thread for an ASK HN: Can somebody please explain moderation on Mastodon to me. Suppose I were to start a Mastodon server in my (EU) basemen

• detaro 4y ago
  I'm curious where you get the idea that there are zero people involved with moderating Mastodon? Moderation is probably the main workload of people involved with running instances.
• ls15 4y ago
  With fewer than 45 million monthly users, unlike Twitter, at least you don't have to follow the Digital Services Act: https://www.accessnow.org/digital-services-act-eu-content-moderation-rules-guide/ https://www.accessnow.org/digital-services-act-eu-content-mo...
• nickthegreek 4y ago
  You will need to actively prune bad content posted by users on your server or other servers will block you. If you dont have other people on your instance, then you only need to worry about your posts being so bad that other servers ban you. There is no way to know how many moderators there are on Mastadon servers, as it is decentralized. Also, twitter had large amount of moderators as it's userbase is WAY HIGHER than mastodon. We are talking hundreds of millions of more active users.
• constantcrying 4y ago
  >what do I have to do to stop it from filling with unsavory material? You don't federate with instances you don't like or remove specific users. >Why did (former) Twitter have 'hundreds' of people in moderation, while Mastodon manages with zero? Every server admin is his own moderator.