# [[Moderation]] in the [[Fediverse]]
There are different levels of moderation on the fediverse:
- instance level (moderation team)
- potentially this could be a moderator team of multiple instances cooperating
- personal moderation
- many tools to filter, block
- controlling and even understanding how your data is spread to other instances is not simple
- [[ZK - 3d4e - Moderation in the fediverse is also a personal thing]]
## Goals of moderation
- safety
- spam
- respecting/enforcing user's rights
- how can we for example make sure other instances are doing proper data governance?
- onboarding new moderation
## Responsibilities of moderators
- transparency
- fairness
- accountability
- respect data privacy
- community
- respect other moderators
- respect yourself
- legal responsibility
- Idea (?) from [[Andy Matuschak]] in a podcast, about his time at Khan Academy:
- Put "users" as the subject of every statement
- Communication to the public
- laid out moderation charter
## Moderation from the view point of the user
- safety in reporting
- fairness in being moderated
- transparency
- appeals
- privacy concern about moderation actions and their data
- contribute to moderation
- reporting tools and case status / follow up
## Tooling
- tooling supports:
- moderators
- mental health
- protect by hiding content
- make it easy to delegate / get support
- productivity
- make it easy to do the right thing regarding
- fairness
- transparency
- accountability
- instance owners
## Training moderators
- designing moderation tools such that they can be used for training
- curating test cases, both with synthetic data, and with scenarios
- also involves training users!
## Brainstorm
- designing moderation platform for review, training with fake or historical data
- message TTLs
- responsibility of instance admin to not inflict technological change on its users. this involves defederation
- also, education, training, path of growth for community members to get involved in tech, moderation content curation
## Concrete project ideas
- Make a tool that shows how different types of messages get percolated to different instances
- [[PROJ - 2023-01-09 - Federated Moderation]]
- [[PROJ - 2023-01-09 - Firewall language for Fediverse applications]]