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Also see the comment section at https://www.reddit.com/r/Mastodon/comments/z3dr87/jeffrey_ph... (now removed from the subreddit).
Opininated tl;dr: joinmastodon.org delisted an instance which failed to moderate effectively, and the instance owner is upset because moderating a fediverse instance is impossibly hard.
The instance is moderated quite effectively. Freeman is upset because of Rochko giving into a smear campaign by a Nazi who has long been banned from qoto and is spiteful about that fact.
- "The instance is moderated quite effectively"
I can't assess this, but imagine that the users' perspective and the moderators' can be very different. The moderator can invest hours a day into their community, and feel accomplished if they succeed in removing a shock image in five minutes. I commend that. From the user's perspective, it's an outrage if a single one shows up on the timeline. The tolerance for these things is approximately zero; it's not sufficient merely to work very hard and have a very fast response rate.
Fediverse is re-learning hard moderation lessons from like 20 years ago.
I can't assess this, but imagine that the users' perspective and the moderators' can be very different. The moderator can invest hours a day into their community, and feel accomplished if they succeed in removing a shock image in five minutes. I commend that. From the user's perspective, it's an outrage if a single one shows up on the timeline. The tolerance for these things is approximately zero; it's not sufficient merely to work very hard and have a very fast response rate.
Fediverse is re-learning hard moderation lessons from like 20 years ago.
To be fair, I am speaking as a user of that instance