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@jaz That implies at least 4000 admins for a population of around 1 million. If #Mastodon gets to be as large as #Twitter at around 200 million users, that would map to 8 million instance admins.

Sounds like Fatima's next job really is going to be in cyber.

Like 10 Nov 2022 at 22:15 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodon.social

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jaz 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

@mykd It's not a linear progression. Maybe we have extra moderation capacity right now. The fact is, we have over 4,000 admins (for over 6 million members) and an unknown number of moderators -already- working on this problem, we are not at our limit with the numbers we have.

The larger point is, this is what the network is about. We federate. We moderate. It's built in.

10 Nov 2022 at 22:26 | Open on toot.wales

Michael :mastodon:

@jaz Oh, I know, I was just playing around. I'm sure that the necessary tools will develop quickly as the need for them becomes increasingly important.

10 Nov 2022 at 22:29 | Open on mastodon.social

Malinux

@mykd @jaz
I suspect that if Mastodon grew to Twitter's size, a lot of the administration would be avoided through simple separation.

For example, removing gab.com from the majority of servers stopped an amount of moderation work before it happened. Taking a quick look at what's on gab.com's page, it looks like the fedi's successfully constructed a troll-prison (or perhaps 'zoo', since they're a spectacle).

10 Nov 2022 at 22:28 | Open on linuxrocks.online

Michael :mastodon:

@malin @jaz I wouldn’t be surprised if more than a few bad actors were right now planning ways to destroy the value of this network by actually pushing admins towards such mass defederations.

11 Nov 2022 at 8:20 | Open on mastodon.social

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