Under moderated and under administrated instances have ended up with child porn on them. If that shit gets federated out it’s a real mess for everyone. I think screening tools are more advanced now thankfully because it’s been a while since the last incident.

Yes, unfortunately

I think it’s pretty weird that you asked this question when it seems to me you aren’t interested in entertaining even one of the many arguments people are making (even pretty basic ones about literally illegal content for some reasons???)

Well, it depends on what you’re aiming for.

My experience has generally been that if you try to have a conversation in an unmoderated environment, there is a very small percentage of people who enjoy derailing other people’s conversations. Could be just posting giant images or whatever. And it doesn’t take a high percentage to derail conversations.

There are places that are more-hands-off that do have communities. I guess 4chan, say – not the same thing, but there are certainly people who like that.

But, in any event, if you want to have a zero-admin, zero-moderator discussion, you can do it. Set up an mbin/lemmy/piefed instance. State that your instance rules are “anything goes”. Then start a community on it and say that you have no rules and give it a shot.

I tend to favor a probably-more-hands-off policy than many, but even with that, I think that there are typically gonna be people who are just going to try to stop users from talking to each other.

Yes. Because racist assholes and trolls.

You might need to be more specific on what you’re asking

Suggested reading:

• Moderation Is Different From Censorship (if you want people to enjoy being on a platform, you need to make sure people see things they enjoy seeing even if other people have been posting other things too)
• Hey Elon: Let Me Help You Speed Run The Content Moderation Learning Curve (there are also other reasons, including legal reasons, why you can’t have a “censorship-free system” for very long; someone else already raised the point that if you build a “censorship-free system”, the government is eventually going to shut you down for hosting child porn)

Yes, you do it all the time in real life when talking to people. If someone isn’t contributing to the conversation you so don’t invite them back, or change topic or leave. It’s normal human behavior.

It’s always going to be a tradeoff. If it’s unmoderated then you’re going to encounter a lot more spam and off-topic which you have to deal with by yourself but with moderators you’re going to get power tripping. With a truly competent AI moderator you could possibly get around this but not with humans.

In my case, I’m already doing the majority of managing what I see on my feed by myself so I doubt I’d see a huge difference were the moderators to dissapear.

Elon Muskler and other far right morons poisoned the idea of un-moderated discussion but I still very much support it.

Moderators role should be mostly limited to removing

• illegal content
• obvious trolling
• nazi propaganda including racism

They also should ensure that individual communities are place where people can freely express their views without the fear of being downvoted to oblivion by users brigading from other communities just to blanket downvote.

Mods and admins are mostly for technical and legal issues. You can choose your instance by the rules or male your own. Managing your convos is your job on the fedi.

Only if you think you need censorship to protect your fragile ego. Something offended you? Move on loser.