Notices by Andy Jones (andy_twosticks@ruby.social)

@mekkaokereke @dave @Bam @thetitanborn The one thing that worries me about the Fediverse* – how do you know if your mods are misbehaving?

* There are people ON the fediverse that worry me. Different thing.

@Bam @mekkaokereke @dave @thetitanborn Well, that's not an answer to the problem.

"How do I know if it's safe to cross the road here?"
"It's not safe to cross the road over there!"

@Bam @mekkaokereke @dave @thetitanborn Well. Yeeeees. But.

Technically that's an answer in the same way that "hide in a cave" is an answer to "how can I know who to trust?"

I'm sure most mods on instances that are not obviously problematic are fine. I have in the past had one (1) interaction with a mod (not here) that was problematic. I'd ideally like Mastodon to make moderation more transparent to other instance users…

@Bam @mekkaokereke @dave @thetitanborn Well, no. Not what I meant.

I'd like *all* Mastodon users to have the option of seeing what their moderators are doing. I don't need to fix it for me, and fixing it just for me would solve nothing.

Also: if I run my own instance, of course I know what the moderator is doing! He's me!