@griotspeak scaling moderation and culture, which is *far* harder, because you can’t just throw money at it.
So far, I see a lot of paranoid chatter about OMG THEY COMIN FER MAH DATAZ, and very little mature thinking along the lines of, “wtf are we going to do when we see multiple order-of-magnitude traffic spikes, consisting of people who have never heard of the Mastodon Covenant?”
This thinking is not entirely absent, but it is dismayingly rare. 2/