• FishFace@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    It used to be, in the early days of mass social media (and it was widespread on forums)

    Moderation isn’t easy but it also needn’t be fraught - set standards of civility (strict or loose) and basic rules about hate speech, and let people take themselves out of discussions that are within the rules that they nevertheless don’t like.

    It works a lot better in small communities where you talk to the same people - you can ignore people you don’t like and not have the same conversation over and over.