Moderation is more than the sum of the decisions made by community management teams on social media platforms — it is ultimately the social contract that upholds norms within online spaces, and with that comes a great degree of power to define goals and borders of those spaces. In a sense, moderation is the politics of the online domain.

This topic is about the various approaches to moderation, including Bluesky’s composable moderation via 3rd party labellers, and the Fediverse’s approach of independently moderated islands that are part of a decentralised ecosystem.