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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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     CM Harrington (octothorpe@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 03-Jun-2024 16:24:13 JST CM Harrington

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     @timbray Yeah, I don't think behavioural change was ever part of the equation.

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