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Rewind: Can Mastodon seize the moment from Twitter?

Decoder with Nilay Patel

CHAPTER

The Cost of Moderation in a Social Network

Mastodon is a social network that allows users to run their own servers. The Financial Times shut down one of its Mastodon instances because it couldn't afford the legal costs. David Wheeler: Moderating content on such large networks can be expensive and time-consuming. He says there's no easy answer for how to make those costs work out, but moderation does come at a cost.

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