only thing I'm gonna say on the moderation thing is people need to actually flag stuff, too.
there's a lot of fighting but, and I don't know the cohost numbers, on other sites (especially forum software) people tend to fight instead of flagging and, well. you can't just do that. I know that's not always the case, but it's enough of one to be keeping in mind going forward
Not only in a āpeople suffering harassment shouldnāt be the only one who have to report shitā way but also in a āmods canāt see everything everywhere all the timeā way. Whether itās here, Mastodon, a small forum, or a Big Corp Website. If you see someone being a piece of shit to someone your time will (hopefully) be better spent reporting them if you see thereās no hope of them backing off being an asshole.
Definitely not speaking for Cohost because for all I know it's a single issue queue and large report counts won't get grouped and just spam the queue instead, but as a general rule report volume vastly increases the likelihood of action for actionable offences because
- It makes the issue way more noticable to mods,
- High report volume makes it much more obvious to mods that there is concern among the users than a normal post pointing it out getting a lot of likes and reshares, especially on a site that hides that info, and
- Actually Large Social Networks have automated rules that kick in around mass reporting that either escalate the issue, reduce visibility of the post until it can get looked at, or sometimes even automatically take action.