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.
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.
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[ 0.23 ms ] story [ 24.4 ms ] threadI 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.