Social media sites should be run by non-profits not try to make IPOs.
They don’t need more capital nor do they need financial speculation.
What they need is moderation and Nazi punching.
Social media sites should be run by non-profits not try to make IPOs.
They don’t need more capital nor do they need financial speculation.
What they need is moderation and Nazi punching.
@thomasfuchs absolutely, moderation is what makes the difference between a social forum and a bully playground. And nazi punchers often are happy to work pro bono.
Nevertheless, these are positions that must be human-staffed. And a lot of humans who would like to staff these positions also would like housing and food and medical care.
@ramsey In my opinion there should also be overarching meta-moderation run professionally by paid employees, otherwise you're quickly getting into turf wars.
I think Mastodon comes actually relatively close to this, though it's missing some features that really break it for many people and make it less than ideal (e.g. no search, no quoting).
@thomasfuchs Maybe treated more as co-ops, where (trusted) members take turns moderating their community.
@ramsey Yeah. It would be good for the project to have some large meta-moderation though, e.g. curated block lists of servers and users that local administrators can subscribe to, etc.
@thomasfuchs By “Mastodon,” you mean the company that runs mastodon.social?
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