Content Moderation

Cancel culture creates a mega opportunity for a new social network -- Twitter 2.0 1. Pseudonymous (no verified profiles!) so you can't be cancelled and policies are applied fairly 2. Public follow graph + DMs (Twitter + Telegram) 3. Discovery engine to find insightful new voices

One thing mainstream media outlets misunderstand: Substack is not one platform, it is thousands of platforms, and you get to pick which ones to be part of. And Substack has come up with a powerful way to moderate those platforms: Rather than rely on the company to hire a team of moderators, Substack democratized the process, giving full moderation ... See more

Current social networks don't have great tools for dispute resolution. They're a combination of anarchy (people yelling) and tyranny (arbitrary deplatforming). An alternative approach is a global moderator hierarchy. In the event of dispute, the lowest common ancestor mediates.