I hate whatever automation YouTube has for moderating their comment sections.

I'll occasionally post some really long reply, or I should say try to, and have it show up for me but not actually show up when I look at the same video while logged out. This happened earlier today. Someone had replied to one of my comments asking me something, and I answered them. You cannot see this, last time I checked, because YouTube's automod caught it for who even knows what reason.

So, there went like five to ten minutes of typing for nothing. It was about Linux, under a video about Linux, if you're wondering.

Why they apparently don't want any actual discussion to happen on their platform is beyond me.

#YouTube #Moderation #Rant

Imaginons qu’une municipalité mette à disposition des scolaires une instance Mastodon avec une modération solide.

Sur quelles bases juridiques échapperait-elle aux interdictions actuelles en dessous de 11 ans, 13 ans, 15 ans ? Est-il suffisant qu’elle soit non marchande pour la garder ouverte à la fédération avec des instances bien choisies ?

Quelles moyens de modération faudrait-il mettre en œuvre, selon vous ?

#mastodon #ElectionsMunicipales #moderation

Une très belle année #2026 à toutes et à tous. #parlonsCulture

La première mouture de nos règles de #modération est maintenant publiée. Vous pouvez les retrouver sur notre page À propos : https://reseauculture.fr/about

En avant ! 💫

Hi folks, I come from another instance where I got to know Bird UI, and what can I say, I was just completely thrilled. I like having a few more characters than are possible with the normal Mastodon installation, and I also found some other things on this instance interesting.

I'm interested in #socialmedia, #society, #data protection, #media development, #decentralized networks, and #religion, among other things. Born in 1977 and a city dweller. I'm interested in ways we can improve #communication between #people. I don't consider #moderation questions irrelevant. #Civil liberties and #privacy.

My normal language is German, but because of the Finnish focus, I wanted to do the introduction in English (maybe Finnish, but then I would be too dependent on IT and couldn't check what it was doing : )

Hi folks, I come from another instance where I got to know Bird UI, and what can I say, I was just completely thrilled. I like having a few more characters than are possible with the normal Mastodon installation, and I also found some other things on this instance interesting.

I'm interested in #socialmedia, #society, #data protection, #media development, #decentralized networks, and #religion, among other things. Born in 1977 and a city dweller. I'm interested in ways we can improve #communication between #people. I don't consider #moderation questions irrelevant. #Civil liberties and #privacy.

My normal language is German, but because of the Finnish focus, I wanted to do the introduction in English (maybe Finnish, but then I would be too dependent on IT and couldn't check what it was doing : )

The 2025 Social Web Trust & Safety Needs Assessment Report is now available.

Volunteer moderators are burning out. Spam is rising. Legal threats are growing.

The 2025 Report reveals where things stand, and what must change.

Read it now: https://about.iftas.org/2026/01/08/the-2025-social-web-trust-safety-report-is-here/

#TrustAndSafety #Moderation #FediAdmin #MastoAdmin #Moderators #FediMods #MastoMods

Essential talk on a critical topic by @quintessence

How to keep Open Source open without leaving our communities open to threats

https://cfp.cccv.de/39c3/talk/YDKJDT/

Should be mandatory material for all open source community leadership: near-collapse and collapse crises in our communities have dramatically increased, you're not alone, sensible approaches to moderation are key, and there's a lot of work ahead to share practices on how we keep our communities secure. But we can make it, together!

#39c3 #OpenSource #Moderation #ThreatModeling

RE: https://about.iftas.org/2026/01/08/the-2025-social-web-trust-safety-report-is-here/

Really interesting insight into trust and safety on the Social Web that I'd recommend anyone in this space reads.

Social platforms have to be safe and to be safe they must be moderated. There are learnings in here about the work moderators do that I think far too many of us take for granted.

#SocialWeb #Moderation #Fediverse #Mastodon

The 2025 Social Web Trust & Safety Needs Assessment Report is now available.

Volunteer moderators are burning out. Spam is rising. Legal threats are growing.

The 2025 Report reveals where things stand, and what must change.

Read it now: https://about.iftas.org/2026/01/08/the-2025-social-web-trust-safety-report-is-here/

#TrustAndSafety #Moderation #FediAdmin #MastoAdmin #Moderators #FediMods #MastoMods

RE: https://about.iftas.org/2026/01/08/the-2025-social-web-trust-safety-report-is-here/

Really interesting insight into trust and safety on the Social Web that I'd recommend anyone in this space reads.

Social platforms have to be safe and to be safe they must be moderated. There are learnings in here about the work moderators do that I think far too many of us take for granted.

#SocialWeb #Moderation #Fediverse #Mastodon

Une très belle année #2026 à toutes et à tous. #parlonsCulture

La première mouture de nos règles de #modération est maintenant publiée. Vous pouvez les retrouver sur notre page À propos : https://reseauculture.fr/about

En avant ! 💫

Hi #fediverse! I'm working on Hackers' Pub, a small #ActivityPub-powered social platform for developers and tech folks.

We're currently drafting a content #moderation ( #flag/ #report) system and would really appreciate any feedback from those who have experience with federated moderation—we're still learning.

Some ideas we're exploring:

• Protecting reporter anonymity while giving reported users enough context to understand and improve
• Graduated responses (warning → content removal → suspension) rather than jumping to bans
• Using LLM to help match reports to code of conduct provisions
• Supporting ActivityPub Flag activity for cross-instance reports

Our guiding principle is that moderation should be about growth, not punishment. Expulsion is the last resort.

Here's the full draft if you're curious: https://github.com/hackers-pub/hackerspub/issues/192.

If you've dealt with moderation in federated contexts, what challenges did you run into? What worked well? We'd love to hear your thoughts.