Mastodon.social reportedly has spam/moderation problems.

I recently saw some myself.

But aren't there simple remedies? Like:

(a) it could eliminate its open membership to keep its size from getting any more unmanageable

and

(b) it could display HUGE ads for other instances very early during its onboarding process (approved by those instances, at no cost to them).

After all, isn't #decentralization its main goal? Especially according to its nonprofit group donors?

mindsets (@setsly@mindly.social)

@KuJoe Many thanks to KuJoe and the Mindly.Social gang for—among other things—maintaining a place with seemingly much less spam and vacuous promotional content than mastodon.social itself. I roughly estimate there's a difference, in spam and vacuous promotional content, of at least an order of magnitude between the two instances. And I mean on a per capita basis. I observed this when poking around mastodon.social's original pages, today. I guess mastodon.social has grown too big to control.

Mindly.Social (mindly.social)

@setsly Yes. You would think those actions would be no-brainers, if the goal is to be truly #decentralized - however, the actions of mastodon.social indicate they prioritize growth at the cost of just about everything else.

Principal sources of revenue for the overseeing German non-profit are direct sponsorship and crowdfunding which stands in direct contradiction to any moves to limit the number of users on the flagship instance.

#mastodon #fedi

@chileannick @setsly also since they literally develop mastodon, they could also implement automatic reporting for offensive content. That'd make it insanely easy in my opinion, but they've refused every time I asked.

Then, I guess I asked too much so Eugen blocked me.

They don't want moderation features.

They want to have to see the content to remove it.

If they don't see it, they don't remove it.

It's like a child with their hands over their ears yelling "LALA LALA IM NOT LISTENING!"‍️