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Which has how many content moderators?

None of them, but that's fine. People moving to Mastodon believe that communities can largely self-moderate, by aligning with the owners and kicking out people who don't play by their rules. Twitter is arguably the same, but it tries to be all things to all people and fails. Mastodon instance owners aren't trying to be that. They only want to keep a small number of people happy. That's a much easier job.

I think it works quite well. Mastodon instances aren't ever going to be a platform to broadcast a message to the public to like Twitter tries to be, but that's OK. There's a place in the world for lots of things that aren't Twitter.

It is the bottom that internet communities raced to.

People choosing to leave Twitter aren't convinced that's true. They believe it will get worse.



> None of them, but that's fine.

Not entirely true, my server has a content moderator - it's me, moderating my own content, which is the only content that can be posted on there.

> communities can largely self-moderate, by aligning with the owners and kicking out people who don't play by their rules

What is "kicking out people who don't play by their rules" if not "content moderation"??


The post I was responding to is talking about "people employed as content moderators." when the author wrote "Moderators, accessibility teams, etc - we consider them important enough that we leave when they go, and go to mastadon? Which has how many content moderators?". Mastondon has moderators, but not really in the same sense, because it doesn't need them. The people running instances do the job voluntarily, applying much simpler rules.




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