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22 votes
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The fediverse is already dead
13 votes -
YouTube moderation bots will start issuing warnings, 24-hour bans
10 votes -
Astronomer incorrectly suspended from Twitter by automatic moderation
6 votes -
Hey Elon: Let me help you speed run the content moderation learning curve
33 votes -
Yishan Wong (ex-Reddit CEO) on moderation
15 votes -
Elon Musk has taken control of Twitter and fired its top executives
43 votes -
Welcome to hell, Elon - Nilay Patel on Elon's Twitter acquisition
35 votes -
r/Onlyfans101 mods are currently manipulating tons of NSFW subreddits
16 votes -
How Twitter’s child porn problem ruined its plans for an OnlyFans competitor
9 votes -
Jordan Peterson suspended from Twitter, says it might as well be a ban: 'I won’t apologize'
16 votes -
Facebook, Instagram taking down posts about US abortion pills
5 votes -
Before Uvalde, a platform fails to answer kids' alarms. Tech companies keep building systems to detect violent threats. Why didn't Yubo's work?
5 votes -
Reddit announces update to user blocking: Blocked users will no longer be able to see or interact with your content on the platform
16 votes -
Reddit allows hate speech to flourish in its global forums, moderators say
31 votes -
CBC is keeping Facebook comments closed on news posts
21 votes -
The lonely work of moderating Hacker News
13 votes -
Evaluating the effectiveness of deplatforming as a moderation strategy on Twitter
6 votes -
Twitter testing prompts on Android and iOS for 'intense' conversations
@Twitter Support: Ever want to know the vibe of a conversation before you join in? We're testing prompts on Android and iOS that give you a heads up if the convo you're about to enter could get heated or intense.This is a work in progress as we learn how to better support healthy conversation.
4 votes -
OnlyFans will prohibit "content containing sexually-explicit conduct" (but still allow nudity) starting October 1, at the request of banking/payment providers
50 votes -
Reddit has banned the misogynistic "Men Going Their Own Way" subreddits r/MGTOW and r/MGTOW2
AHS: 🦀. 🦀. 🦀. MGTOW and MGTOW2 are banned 🦀. 🦀. 🦀. SRD: r/MGTOW has been banned r/MGTOW was quarantined back in January 2020 after being cited in an FBI prosecution brief during the sentencing of...
AHS: 🦀. 🦀. 🦀. MGTOW and MGTOW2 are banned 🦀. 🦀. 🦀.
SRD: r/MGTOW has been bannedr/MGTOW was quarantined back in January 2020 after being cited in an FBI prosecution brief during the sentencing of a U.S. Coast Guard officer planning a domestic terrorist attack.
37 votes -
Facebook cracks down on discussing ‘hoes’ in gardening group
12 votes -
Why a YouTube chat about chess got flagged for hate speech
9 votes -
Conservative social networks keep making the same mistake
13 votes -
Reddit is about to delete a lot of subreddits based on post activity metrics
31 votes -
Reddit faces lawsuit for failing to remove child sexual abuse material
15 votes -
Is content moderation a dead end?
19 votes -
Life’s a Bitche: Facebook says sorry for shutting down town’s page
6 votes -
Discord will start designating entire servers as NSFW, and prevent all under-18 users from accessing them, as well as all users on iOS
27 votes -
Twitch will ban users for 'severe misconduct' that occurs away from its site
18 votes -
Thoughts on running online communities from the creator of Improbable Island
15 votes -
How would you improve advertising on Reddit?
Let me preface that I'm well aware that if given the choice between frequent, untargeted ads or fewer targeted ads, the average Tilderino's response would be "Neither." However, given that social...
Let me preface that I'm well aware that if given the choice between frequent, untargeted ads or fewer targeted ads, the average Tilderino's response would be "Neither."
However, given that social media at scale has yet to establish a sustainable business model that doesn't rely on advertising (people like free content, after all), it seems advertising has become a necessary evil (and has pervaded nearly all forms of media for the past century regardless).
With that in mind, I think coming up with creative solutions to deliver relevant advertising while preserving user privacy and avoiding destructive feedback loops (i.e. where the search for ad revenue compromises the user base and content generation) is an interesting thought exercise. This is one of social media's largest problems, imho, but it might be easier to analyze just Reddit as a platform due to its similarities (and notable differences) to Tildes.
A couple thoughts of my own:
- Whitelist "safe" subreddits - A massive problem for Reddit is identifying content that brands want to avoid association with (e.g. porn, violence, drugs). While new subreddits crop up every day, the large ones do not change so fast and could be classified as safe content spaces (e.g. /r/aww)
- User subreddit subscriptions - Rather than target ads based on the subreddit currently being viewed, why not use the subs people have voluntarily indicated they are interested in?
- Allow users to tag content - While people can report content to the mods today, there is no ability to tag content (like Tildes has) from a user level. Content that's inappropriate for advertising may not necessarily be a reportable offense. By allowing users to classify content, better models for determining "good" content vs. "bad" could be developed using ML.
- Use Mods to determine content appropriateness - User supplied data may introduce too much noise into any given dataset, and perhaps mods are a better subjective filter to rely on. Certain subreddits can have biased mods for sure, but without trying to overhaul content moderation entirely, could mod bans/flair be used to indicate suitable content for ads?
- Use computer vision to classify content - While this wouldn't work at scale, an up-and-coming post could have a nebulous title and difficult-to-decipher sarcastic comments. The post itself could be an image macro or annotated video that could be used to determine the subject matter much more effectively.
To be clear, the spirit of my initial prompt isn't "how can Reddit make more money?" per se, but how can it find a sustainable business model without destroying itself/impacting society at large. Facebook and Twitter seem to have optimized for "engagement" metrics which leads to prioritization of outrage porn and political divisiveness. Snapchat and Instagram seem to have succumb to being mostly an ad delivery engine with some overly-filtered content of "real life" influencers (read: marketers) strewn in between. None of these seem like a net-good for society.
What are all your thoughts? Perhaps Big Tech social media is irredeemable at this point, but I'm trying not to take such a defeatist attitude and instead explore any positive solutions.
9 votes -
The internet’s most beloved fanfiction site is undergoing a reckoning
15 votes -
With Parler down, QAnon moves onto a ‘free speech’ TikTok clone
10 votes -
Facebook's Oversight Board announces its first decisions, overturning Facebook's decision in four out of five cases
8 votes -
Twitter announces Birdwatch, a community-based approach to misinformation
21 votes -
The great Wikipedia titty scandal
36 votes -
Thoughts on the difficulties of content moderation, and implications for decentralised communities
12 votes -
Twitter will force users to delete COVID-19 vaccine conspiracy theories
11 votes -
What is happening in r/CentOS and why /u/redundantly should not be a moderator
9 votes -
Parler’s got a porn problem: Adult businesses target pro-Trump social network
13 votes -
Open letter from Facebook content moderators re: pandemic
7 votes -
Reddit quarantined: Can changing platform affordances reduce hateful material online?
4 votes -
Reddit worries it’s going to be crushed in the fight against Big Tech
16 votes -
Reddit announces "Predictions" - Allowing users to bet on the outcomes of polls with Coins (purchased with real money), where moderators are responsible for choosing which option wins
38 votes -
Facebook's Supreme Court arrives
4 votes -
Twitter won’t let The New York Post tweet until it agrees to behave itself
13 votes -
Facebook and Twitter take unusual steps to limit spread of New York Post story
16 votes -
Why Facebook can't fix itself - The platform is overrun with hate speech and disinformation, but the company's strategy seems focused on managing perception of the problem instead of addressing it
14 votes -
Facebook is updating their hate speech policy to prohibit and remove Holocaust Denial content
16 votes