@TechConnectify The "quality filter" was nothing of the sort. It was a simple flamewar detector based on the ratio of likes to comments. That downranks flamewars and makes them harder to find, depriving them of participants. Every large site has them, from reddit to hacker news to twitter to facebook.

How to make that work on something distributed like the fediverse, where servers would need to algorithmically cooperate on flamewar detection? no idea.