Interesting post on how Scuttlebutt (p2p social network) is thinking about safety/moderation: https://medium.com/enspiral-tales/personal-safety-in-a-p2p-social-network-f2f7008ba31a
FWIW I suspect Mastodon's federated model is a better compromise. Asking everyone to be their own moderator might be too much to ask of the average person. E.g. I have a strong stomach, so I don't mind moderating disturbing content so much, which saves my users the distress of dealing with it.
Then again, there are also such things as single-user instances, so if you want to be your own moderator, Mastodon can handle that too.
@nolan yeah this was kind of my reaction
i imagine they're going to have to have block lists that people subscribe to in the future so moderation can basically focus around the concept of making sharing that around easier - not everyone wants to have to moderate their space or set their own boundaries, or even be capable of doing anything but stepping away when a problem happens
@vahnj Yep FWIW I suspect this applies to Mastodon too. I.e. beyond a certain size, it'd probably be best for most instances to adopt an awoo.space-like whitelist and then share it among instances. Just my hunch.
@nolan that's the only viable solution i can think of in terms of abstracting out moderation, anyway