i think we could benefit from a conversation between the fediverse (not just mastodon, i'd also think looking at lemmy) and bluesky about what lessons we both get from community moderation, because there's a lot of overlap in abstract principles but both have a lot of failures to achieve those
and a lot of it comes down to the way people in communities can be missing stairs, not just in an interpersonal abuse way but in a misuse of power and trust way
the basic question of "how do we deal if one of the big server admins in the fediblock space turns out to be a bad actor, how do we withdraw that trust" and "how do we deal with a major moderation service covering for abuse" are very, very similar
i think these should maybe be back channel because a lot of the big names in moderation who can throw their weight around on masto fediblock are already completely out of their gourds with petty forum mod tyranny
we need some kind of way to structure communities that doesn't have load bearing bad actors, which means no one can be load bearing because power can make people act badly even if they aren't problematic before having it