cw: politics, social media

the mastodon/fediverse model of social media isn't perfect, but it probably has the best balance between "free speech" and public safety.

you wanna build an "everything goes" instance? sure, you're allowed to, but other instances will not want to →
cw: politics, social media

← communicate with it, and if you don't want your instance to turn into a haven for fascists that only communicates with other fascist instances (like gab), you'll need to come up with a moderation policy.
cw: politics, social media

having said that, the model kinda cracks in case of larger instances like m.s. rn i think that a few thousand users is the most optimal size for an instance is around 5k users. maybe 10k. after that, issues start to arise.
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