Reddit is the only major social app that figured out how to thread the content moderation needle. Moderation is done by unpaid volunteers who also get the blame (this part is key).
Trust and safety teams then only need to worry about bad communities like coontown/fatpeople hate or escalations.
I don't think it ended up working because the concept of trust levels is rather opaque to the end user, so it's inaccessible for that reason ... But still, props for trying.
🤔 I never ceased to be amazed how many #MastoAdmin feature requests waiting on design could be easily and effectively implemented by just copying #Discourse.
I have been permanently spoiled by #OpenSource software that empowers people who run it, rather than purposely limiting them.
@fediverse What type of social media do you feel is lacking most in the fediverse?
To elaborate, there are a lot of different types of social media already on the fediverse such as microblogs, regular blogs, image sharing, link sharing and video sharing.
Personally, I'd love to see a gaming-focused social media platform on the fediverse.
A federated #forum software. But most likely there are a couple in the works. There's The Pavilion cooperative working on a plugin for #Discourse and some time ago a #Flarum maintainer told me they are working on adding #ActivityPub support too. And there's #LemmyBB which has forum-like aspects.
The #balloon is ascending to #memehood as we speak, isn't it? A weird kind of emergent entity created by the tension between paranoia and irony, the two fundamental forces of 21st century #discourse
Funny, you can almost feel it happening, a scalar tension like a static charge in the collective psychic midair
I feel like it's worth mentioning, re; quote-boosts/QTs, that we can't "just add the feature to Mastodon" in a federation - it's a lot more complicated than a lot of people seem to realise?
The argument about whether or not we should add QTs is an important one, but once we get past that there's the issue of federation.
Mastodon is one software of many using the ActivityPub "skeleton" code. If ActivityPub doesn't have QTs in its code and Mastodon adds a QT feature, any non-Mastodon software (or even server) has to work out how to interpret Mastodon's QTs. If it isn't Mastodon-compatible, QTs will just break. They might even break in a way that harms the person being QTed. And what if someone on another server boosts/reblogs that broken QT?
Also, since we on Mastodon can follow people who are using federated software that isn't Mastodon (e.g. instances/softwares that look and behave like Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, etc), how does that work? Would people on Mastodon be able to QT people on not-Mastodon? How are the OPs going to feel about that? Would they even get notifications about it, since QTs aren't in the ActivityPub "skeleton" of federation?
And since we're a federation of separate servers even "within" Mastodon, there's also the question of how older/outdated Mastodon servers will handle incoming QTs. If you're on an older version of Mastodon and you follow someone on a newer instance and they QT someone, what would that look like? Maybe someone has intentionally chosen a fork of Mastodon with QTs turned off. Can people on other softwares QT them, and how would they feel about that?