William Gillis 🏴 @rechelon@mastodon.social

In the mastadon model your moderation is handled by making you the vassal of a single sysadmin / administration. More anarchistic would be multiple overlaping content moderators you could use as filters, but even more anarchistic is congealing the filters from the bottom up.

Basically the problem with mastadon/gnusocial is that it functions like a neoreactionary patchwork rather than an anarchist network. Folks migrating between small city states that each offer a monopoly on moderation, rather than building moderation fluidly from the bottom up.

GNU social is characterized by two major dynamics:

1) nazis and anon trolls are marginalized efficiently

2) local instances (smaller walled gardens / statelets) are unsustainable, centralized, and constantly in drama/schism.

(2) is because of insufficiently anarchist topology

Spam is a product of walled gardens and centralization, not decentralization. In a radically distributed federation/network a new node needs to *earn* connectivity to the rest. This leads to stronger global connectivity and avoids obtuse sweeping filters.

Back on the birdsite, Jillian asked: "In 280 characters: What does your ideal content moderation system look like?"

My answer:

Distributed production and hosting of content. Overlapping toggleable filters, some moderated in a centralized way, others moderated in a decentralized manner, all competing + collaborating. Algorithms to average or build off of trusted/friends filters.

Bombing 52 cultural sites in Iran intentionally is *textbook* terrorism & war crimes.

Trump could promise to put an entire race into gas chambers and we wouldn't blink. Because we have lost the sense that there's something tangible and substantive that we as individuals can do.

Sorry To Bother You is a masterpiece, and a large part of this is that Boots could present a relatively uncommon moral:

People will tolerate literally any atrocity or injustice, no matter how absurd, so long as they don't perceive a meaningful avenue of personal resistance.

The second Please Try This At Home is everything i wanted it to be. <3