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Can Mastodon seize the moment from Twitter?

Decoder with Nilay Patel

CHAPTER

How to Overestimate the Load of Moderation on a Small Community

"I feel like that is the lived experience of being on the internet, that if your community is small, it will self-regulate and it gets big," he says. "And I can provide you anecdotal counterfactuals... You look at Reddit. Reddit is a history of small communities fracturing into rival sub-redits to go on for infinity."

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