That someone who takes control of moderation should be the user.

In the past, most USENET was small enough that people maintained their own individual blocklists of bad actors and ignored them. Today, we crowdsource a personal blocklist with EasyList and other lists that users opt into.

The only centralized or automated moderation any media needs is to stop bots and spam. If you went to opentube and you had the option to view only "family friendly" videos then even sensitive people could use the site without being offended.

Blacklists make sense for news feeds, but whitelists seem more useful for media consumption.

The way Minds works is if you miscategorize offensive content as family friendly too many times then your whole account is made NSFW. Offensive videos are not censored, but you have to opt-in to seeing them. The choice is always with the user what type of content they want to see.

I disagree, I think o. the surface censorship is appealing but as someone who enjoyed the early days of high speed internet I prefer raw unmoderated content.

I’m an adult and can navigate away. The world is a tough place. Pretending that bad stuff doesn’t happen is akin to putting your head in the sand.

Should it be front and center? Probably not. But it shouldn’t be “banned”.

It’s a slippery slope, moderation can and will be abused. Just look at the reddit zealots.