Taggart@mttaggart@infosec.exchange
@mousey@mastodon.seattlematrix.org @vrruiz@mastodon.social @kims@mas.to @mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io @ecosdelfuturo@mstdn.social I personally could not care less about the frontend app. I don't really care about the underlying protocol either, except insofar as it is accessible to developers, which uhhhh ActivityPub needs some work.
In this particular case, the point I was making, albeit cheekily, was about how no matter how beautiful and polychromous your rainbow of apps, if they are all moderated by volunteers, you're not escaping a core problem of the ecosystem. Yes there are some non-profit initiatives to try to address this, but so far very little progress has been made.
epilonious@epilonious@toot.lgbt
@mttaggart@infosec.exchange @mousey@mastodon.seattlematrix.org @vrruiz@mastodon.social @kims@mas.to @mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io @ecosdelfuturo@mstdn.social
Moderation is work. Skilled, paid, compassionate work that you need to pay lots of money for it to be good.
It's not a mistake that most of the money for social media startups went into paid moderators and lawyers and the first thing that happened in enshittification is replacing moderation with crappy automated systems tuned to 'What's least likely to piss off the status quo or get us sued."