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   New_ Public (wearenew_public@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jun-2024 08:03:58 JST New_ Public

   RESEARCH: On decentralized social networks like Mastodon, community moderators can choose to defederate — disconnect from another group to protect themselves from harassers and undesirable content.

   The effects of defederation include reduced activity on blocked servers, but not necessarily less toxic content.

   https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.02109

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   Tim Bray (timbray@cosocial.ca)'s status on Saturday, 01-Jun-2024 10:29:42 JST Tim Bray

   https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.02109 - “The Effects of Group Sanctions on Participation and Toxicity: Quasi-experimental Evidence from the Fediverse”.

   Tl;dr: Defederation works better than the tools available to centralized-network moderators. It doesn’t reduce toxic behavior by those blocked, but who cares? Also, they gathered a really interesting data set.

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   Tim Chambers (tchambers@indieweb.social)'s status on Saturday, 01-Jun-2024 09:47:45 JST Tim Chambers

   Need to look this over when I have more time, but at first glance, think it's main finding is that the federated model of distributed moderation and defederation seems to work with no backfire effect in terms of toxicity.... #Fediverse #FediAdmin
   cc: @jaz https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.02109