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Rewind: Can Mastodon seize the moment from Twitter?

Decoder with Nilay Patel

CHAPTER

The Benefits of Decentralized Content Moderation

If you have 20 people and one moderator, that's a much higher ratio of users to moderators than on any other commercial social media platform. People take care of the rule breakers on their own servers and then the other moderator doesn't have to deal with it. This is a large-scale test to see if that market-based version of content moderation actually succeeds the way people have always said it would.

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