Post APvNBP4i0XkGl2EdZQ by reinderdijkhuis@mastodon.art
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 (DIR) Post #APvNBLVrFf5Li4uGKe by reinderdijkhuis@mastodon.art
       2022-11-24T07:46:13Z
       
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       From the big megathread of ways that Twitter could fail in the near future (which I can't find right now but you may have seen it), one takeaway that's scary for the Fediverse is that they identified three different things that were needed for effective moderation: 1. The moderation teams themselves;2. Technology for moderation, i.e. tools the moderation teams could use;3. Professional mental support for the mods/admins because they'll see some shit they can't unsee.
       
 (DIR) Post #APvNBMLy7ulkJhHsYa by SuperDicq@minidisc.tokyo
       2022-11-24T09:23:28.845Z
       
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       @reinderdijkhuis@mastodon.art I don't know if you can look at Twitter moderation and pretend everything applies to the fediverse. Because Twitter is (or was?) mostly moderated to keep advertisers and copyrightholders happy. These stakeholders do not exist on the fediverse.1. Fediverse communities are much smaller, very manageable to moderate with one or just a few people. You need a full team of moderators around to moderate your fediverse instance, it's probably too big.2. I think the current moderation tools are completely fine. There are reports and ways to ban or restrict accounts. What else do we need?3. I agree that mental support would be nice for those who need it, but I don't even know how you could provide this to a decentralized network of mostly volunteers.
       
 (DIR) Post #APvNBNRg4Avhhgxx5s by reinderdijkhuis@mastodon.art
       2022-11-24T07:50:21Z
       
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       Twitter had some of these things in place pre-Elon, but not nearly enough of them. The Fediverse? We're still stuck on point 1 and we're not paying those mods. We can't have a good moderation infrastructure until we have 2 and 3 in place. There are probably also opportunities here, though. The traditional tools of social media sites are not that good and don't help the mental health of mods - they arguably make that worse.
       
 (DIR) Post #APvNBP4i0XkGl2EdZQ by reinderdijkhuis@mastodon.art
       2022-11-24T07:53:57Z
       
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       I think the tools are mainly focused on automatically identifying content that needs to be removed? And that's obviously necessary considering both the volume and severity of infringing content out there. But do things like a timeout tool for mods exist? Where if a mod sees something extremely bad and needs to take a breather, they can just say a phrase and tap out for as long as they need? (This came from thinking about it last night while walking the dog. Dunno if it'd work)