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Apparently going viral on mastodon exposes you to about as much hate speech and garbage mentions as on twitter. TIL
So on twitter hypothetically the company's responsible for moderation, though in practice they mostly ignore you. On Mastodon I'm running the server my account is on, which means I'm responsible for moderating the hate speech in my own mentions. Not great tbh
"let's replace the centralized bad moderation with burnt-out, un/underpaid instance admins!"
the best part being that moderation isn’t really possible because like. what are your options even. block them (which you don’t need to be a moderator to do), report to another instance admin and hope they care (probably not), defederate (scorched earth is appealing). moderating mastodon is impossible
Yeah like the entire snouts blowup started from a moderation report being forwarded from one server to another. What are you going to do, send the "free speech" server with slurs in its official description a report that someone is using slurs in your mention
People don't like to say it but the official mastodon moderation stance isn't that far off from people sharing twitter blocklist apps with each other
i eventually discontinued my self-hosted instance for this very reason and i'm really sad to hear this is still happening to people years later 😩
in conclusion, social media was a mistake
Oof that sucks, sorry to hear that's happening to you 🤕 I have not been super active on Mastodon and stories like this scare me off of really using the platform.
