So wish I was there for this! Recently found our Oliphant founder added to one of my mod chats and have begun to explore Pelago. We need a Trust and Safety congress of sorts, as it is more of an interpersonal and social relations space, not just a “just one more tool” space. A systems map of values and standards and a framework that instances localize for themselves in order to communicate externally as to how things work.

Q: What role does moderation play in growing the fediverse (context: friends have left the fediverse because of harrassment) -- centralizing moderation labour? Undertraining of moderation among server admins. "Is AP good at this, what can we learn..."

A:

• Trust and Safety is an important part of growth
• Professional training -- even large networks (FB, etc.) struggle with this
• Having a moderation team aligned with your interests is key
• Admission that there are many servers run by hobbyist admins who are unaware of the moderation work involved
• More formal connection between users and their services (e.g. cosocial's membership relationship structure)

9. Content search; patchy across instances (see picture); seems only 10% of accounts provide a positive signal for indexability
10. Groups; facebook groups, reddit. We have this on the fediverse via FEP 1b12 (the threadiverse!) — "they work okay", says Evan
    • Groups TF focuses on private groups

5. E2EE messages; private messages are not encrypted widely on the fediverse; a bit of a shoutout to @benpate@mastodon.social's upcoming talk tomorrow <img class="not-responsive emoji" src="https://activitypub.space/assets/plugins/nodebb-plugin-emoji/emoji/android/1f609.png?v=8161d5c9b56" title="" />
6. Addressing; complicated and hard for people to understand; promote use of lists (like "Close Friends", "Family", etc.)
7. Hashtag feeds; they federate widely through the network, but saturation is not complete; "hashtags do not spread through the fediverse evenly"; a shoutout to his project tags.pub
8. Aggregation and remixing; combining search terms, people, and hashtags into a topical feed (sounds a lot like activitypub.space )

> Everyone deserves choice in how they connect with family, friends, colleagues, and neighbours — Evan

• With 14M users on the fediverse (as measured by FediDB), it's growing steadily, but the base of active users sits stable at 1.2M — how do we get them to stay?

• Help people connect with others they care about (the social network part)

• Have conversations that matter. Ones they're interested in, ones they care about

What are those 10 ways?

1. Improve user search; it is not currently global
2. Find my friends; out of band search of friends, email, phone number, profile links, etc.
3. Invitations; "would you like to invite your friends?"
4. Easier following; current steps are high friction

to be continued...

My family would go out once a weekend to a 茶餐廳 (cha chaan teng, "tea restaurant"), and this really reminds me of my childhood.

Certainly these restaurants still exist in Ontario, but the Cantonese population there pales in comparison to the mainland Chinese population, and these restaurants, serving an odd cross section of Chinese and English influenced food, only exist in Cantonese communities.

Despite what @atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org suggested, I don't think I will be going into Richmond today <img class="not-responsive emoji" src="https://activitypub.space/assets/plugins/nodebb-plugin-emoji/emoji/android/1f605.png?v=8161d5c9b56" title="" />