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> a good moderation plan ^ This is the reason decentralized is better for everyone, including Meta. At a certain scale, content moderation goes from "hard" to
by turnsout 4y ago
> a good moderation plan
^ This is the reason decentralized is better for everyone, including Meta. At a certain scale, content moderation goes from "hard" to "actually impossible."
With enough users, you will eventually have an Kurdish knitting group that meets in Turkey, who uses ethnic slurs ironically as a commentary on the government's treatment of immigrants, and you'll have to unravel the whole thing when someone complains. And the whole conversation is happening in Kurdish.
- m3kw9 4y agoThere is ideal and there is practical, most people will not just switch from twitter because it allows someone to by pass govt. It will be difficult if no content is there.
- turnsout 4y agoPeople will follow people—we've already seen that with the tech community and Mastodon. Within niches like the iOS dev community, virtually everyone has jumped from Twitter to Mastodon. If a good centralized alternative comes along, other communities may jump to that. But so far, there are no centralized contenders on the Twitter front.