I think a cool #moderation feature would be to show "how many folks I know have this instance/user muted or blocked?"
#ssb had this and it was east to preemtively block shitheads when bumping accross them.
@mauve nice, yeh! is this something that could land in @gotosocial i wonder 🤔 #gotosocial
@decentral1se @mauve probably at some point! We have a couple ideas like that in mind!
@mauve So your opinion depends on other people's actions?
@dirk It's like a reputation system yeah. Kinda like how in person there's the scuttlebutt about who in a community is abusive or sketchy to give others a heads up
@dirk one cool thing js it gives morenuance and context. E.g if I know this one friend is very strict about blocking I can take their block with a grain of salt since I might not have the same criteria
@mauve Never was a fan auf algorithms and never will be ... This is one of the reasons why I left corporate-owned social media.
@dirk Yeah hard agree. Exactly why I think there should be more tools for folks to be able to curate their social interactions.
If you haven't seen it before, you might like the trustnet article by cblgh. It's useful for surfacing stuff to give people subjective moderation relative to their personal preferences. https://cblgh.org/trustnet/
I think another really important tool is to know who a person follows that you follow or who follows them that you follow. this is a great way to just get context on were in your social graph they fall which can help provide more context. this can also be great for avoiding misunderstandings if you know that somebody is coming from a different social context that changes the way you would interpret what they're saying.