Even when Twitter’s T&S infrastructure was at its most functional – which I’d say was 2021-mid 2022 – I sometimes saw appeals on content decisions, suspensions, etc. take 2-3 months unless I escalated to personal contacts at the company.

I keep seeing folks expect #moderation and community management decisions on volunteer-run fedi instances to happen in hours – not even days – and jumping to defederation when they don’t get immediate responses. It’s going to burn out so many admins, and makes me sad and worried about the sustainability and scalability of our communities.

#fediverse #fediadmin #contentmoderation #communitymanagement #mastoadmin #mastodon

As the #birdsite continues turning into Gab, Musk’s latest tactic is to point the QAnon firehose (and other MAGA mobs) at former employees. He’s engaging with QAnon influencers - replying to them, RTing them, and even appearing on a twitter space with one of them. I’m reminded of how much QAnon “trafficking” rhetoric distracts from the real world harms - this early episode (from 2020!) of the Conspirituality podcast does a good job unwinding things: https://www.conspirituality.net/episodes/12-so-you-want-to-stop-child-abuse-regan-williams-amp-dr-theo-wildcroft

#twitter #contentmoderation #policy