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Labour pains: Content moderation challenges in Mastodon growth

Charlotte Spencer-Smith, University of Klagenfurt
Tales Tomaz, University of Salzburg
PUBLISHED ON: 31 Mar 2025 DOI: 10.14763/2025.1.1831

Mastodon growth after mass user switching from Twitter posed many challenges to content moderation, but responses have varied in Mastodon communities, differing from a top-down approach as in corporate social media.

Decentralised content moderation

Paul Friedl, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Julian Morgan, Humboldt Universität Berlin
PUBLISHED ON: 4 Apr 2024 DOI: 10.14763/2024.2.1754

Decentralised content moderation describes and potentially advocates for moderation infrastructures in which both the authority and the responsibility to moderate are distributed over a plurality of actors or institutions.