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Oggie

@ZachWeinersmith The answer to this is in several parts, I think.

First off, while the server you're on doesn't 'matter' in any real sense, it's still your neighbors, and they can vote you off the island, and if they are unpleasant, you can be tainted by association. So you have a vested interest in maintaining positive relations (or at least justifiable ones), among (reasonably) small communities. Smaller groupings of people are inherently easier to self-govern. 1/x

16 Jul 2023 at 12:41 | Wall-to-wall | Open on woof.group
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Oggie

@ZachWeinersmith
So it's a community of micro-communities, rather than just a wild swath. This leads to a lot more tonal shifts.

Secondly, and this is more important, there is a -lot- of moderation going on, you just don't see a ton of it. There are fediverse nazi servers, and troll servers, and everything, they just got defederated. A single person who's just problematic gets shunted off the non problematic servers too. The -effective- moderation team is actually huge. 2/X

16 Jul 2023 at 12:43 | Open on woof.group
Oggie

@ZachWeinersmith
It might not seem like this second part is true because you only know your server's mod/mods, but keep in mind there are thousands of servers, often with only 1-2k users (and some quite a bit smaller). My server, I'm not sure how many mods we have but I think it's ~10 (might be more?) with ~1.2k active users, which seems like a little, but 1:1000 would mean twitter with 10m users would need 10k mods- and it never had that.

Buy a beer for your mods! It's a rough job.

@ZachWeinersmith
It might not seem like this second part is true because you only know your server's mod/mods, but keep in mind there are thousands of servers, often with only 1-2k users (and some quite a bit smaller). My server, I'm not sure how many mods we have but I think it's ~10 (might be more?) with ~1.2k active users, which seems like a little, but 1:1000 would mean twitter with 10m users would need 10k mods- and it never had that.

16 Jul 2023 at 12:46 | Open on woof.group
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