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Re:Mastodon and the challenges of abuse in a federated system by pessimizer on Sunday September 02, 2018 @12:48AM (#17895604)
> I dunno how well the former will survive with read-only access to the latter. I would not be sad to see it wither and die, though several decades of life on the Internet suggests that's all too unlikely to happen.

In my internet experience, it will be the fun, influential one, and the "civil" one will wither and die. The problem in this case was the abuse of the reporting system, it seems, not name-calling.

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Re:Mastodon and the challenges of abuse in a federated system by psergeant on Sunday September 02, 2018 @03:24AM (#17896030)
HackerNews benefits strongly (imho) from strong moderation.
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Re:Mastodon and the challenges of abuse in a federated system by dredmorbius on Sunday September 02, 2018 @07:18AM (#17896589)
Strong, principled, consistent, and effective.
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Re:Mastodon and the challenges of abuse in a federated system by scarejunba on Sunday September 02, 2018 @01:30AM (#17895727)
Metafilter is way better than Voat. I concur that the less fun one will wither but no guarantee that's the civil one.
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