On the coordination for better moderation systems

There is a need for better moderation systems on the fediverse. But getting people to coordinate to build and adopt such systems is proving to be a challenge.

Moderation in Infrastructure

Infrastructure companies need a distinct approach to moderation that focuses on neutrality and due process.

Beyond moderation: labelers for security/safe browsing, existing services to use · bluesky-social atproto · Discussion #1595

So far, much of the conversation around third party labelers has focused on content moderation. That's an important first use case, but obviously not the only one. We talked a bit about the dow...

The Inexorable Push For Infrastructure Moderation

I’m grateful to Techdirt and the EFF for this series. There are so many legitimately difficult issues around content moderation at the application layer—that is, on (and usually by) pla…

Open source has a funding problem - Stack Overflow

Relying on volunteers to maintain every open source project isn't long term sustainable. Funding open source projects could keep development moving, but would that funding be raised and who would pay for it?

Towards Sustainable Moderation for 3rd Party ATProto Development

I had the chance to chat with Ronen and Wesley from semble.so at the ATProto Boston meetup last week. They mentioned to me that a topic of discussion among non-Bluesky ATProto developers in Montreal was a growing recognition that they would need to start doing moderation on their services sooner rather than later. I was very quickly able to demonstrate that labeling third party lexicons was fairly simple. That said, I think tooling is the easy part—between larger organizations like Roost and Z...

The Commercial Open Source Pledge

I’m pretty frustrated by some of the discussion around the recent relicensing decisions by commercial open source companies. A fair bit of it seems confused to me, and I think this is mostly …

The best time to create a moderation plan is before launching your OSS project. The second best time is now.

Moderation is the heart of open source capability - the success of which drives critical outcomes for security, sustainability and innovation. The lack of which can cause significant harm to projects and people.

Labels - AT Protocol

All about moderation labels

Decentralized Moderation | The Paper Pilot

The Paper Pilot's digital garden of thoughts on philosophy, politics, and sociology

Santa Clara Principles

Santa Clara Principles on Transparency and Accountability in Content Moderation

It’s Not Just Mastodon

2025 Fediverse Needs Assessment: Moderation Across the Social Web The Fediverse is more than Mastodon, and moderation is bigger than any one platform. Last year, we heard from moderators on Mastodo…

Infrastructural Regulation and the New Utilities

From too-big-to-fail financial firms to net neutrality to internet platforms and the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, we now face a variety of legal and public