Decentralized Moderation Systems

people with megaphones are the point, the problem is when there are mechanisms of moderation to manipulate them and make them into groups, if there is no such mecanisms and moderation is up to the user completely(unfollow/block) things function very differently

People dont want distributed moderation, they just want the other side to be moderated.

I'd like to see moderation work like adblocking. You subscribe to whatever moderation feed you like, and it blocks tweets that the moderators decide to block.If you don't like what the moderators are doing, you can select a different moderation feed, or start your own.This way we decouple the moderation from the platform.

It is possible to think that a particular platform should be moderated heavily without thinking all platforms should be. It would be chaos if no forums had any heavy moderation, because some discussions can be easily derailed, and entire forums can be derailed with content not relevant to the topic. There is still value in having places where you can communicate and spread ideas online without certain views and opinions being censored. There is value in both approaches, and it is reasonable to p

You're not describing free speech, you're describing the challenges of moderation.

People probably don't want an unmoderated community, but a community is usually smaller than a social media behemoth/"platform". Twitter is actually the one site that doesn't try to divide its userbase into groups/communities, but pretty much all other platforms I know either have a very prominent "friend" or "group" mechanism. Even on Twitter there are many subcultures, not just homogenous "Twitter users", they're just not organis

Not every platform should be moderated.

Moderation wouldn't disappear, it would just become controlled by the user.

I think moderation is a bad idea. They should rather provide the tools for the useres to self-moderate their feeds so they can avoid engaging with content they don't want to engage.

I think moderation only works when individuals have the agency to choose for themselves what content/posts they see. Mastodon/fediverse sets a good example here - there is “general safety and theme” guards at instance level but whether you see “uspol” in your timeline or just posts of cat pics is entirely up to you.Contrast this to the “medias” like Threads, Bluesky, etc - moderation becomes impossible just because of the sheer scale of it all. Somehow everyone feels compelled to “c