say what you will about moderators of giant corporate sites like twitter or facebook; they're basically a safe haven of dreamlike freedom compared to the uncaring, inconsistent, one-strike nightmare of volunteer moderation in places like facebook groups or subreddits.
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This might be true. Unfortunately, the awful moderation policies of big-tech platforms affect what is effectively the public square. The inconsistent and terrible moderation policies of volunteers can be fairly easily escaped.
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Eh, I've been treated *much* more kindly by the human moderators I could easily access on smaller forums than I have been by e.g. the time Twitter put me in jail automatically. I got an *extremely* hostile vibe from Twitter then; I think this place hates me. 😒
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What’s glorious about subreddits is that they are exactly what you’re talking about in this other tweet: smaller, experimental forum governance attempts. The downside of allowing those is apparently real too…
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one of my big complaints with our laws is that it really excludes smaller, experimental governance attempts. I don't believe e.g. communism works, but I would really like people to have the ability to try out communism in smaller systems without getting regulated out of existence
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don't understand what your point is. imo subreddits have better moderation than twitter (wouldn't know about facebook)
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