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The classic #trilemma goes: "Fast, cheap or good, pick any two." The #ModeratorsTrilemma goes, "Large, diverse userbase; centralized platforms; don't anger users - pick any two." 1/ 
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
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The Moderator's Trilemma is introduced in "Moderating the Fediverse: Content Moderation on Distributed Social Media," a superb paper from @ARozenshtein of @UofMNLawSchool, forthcoming in the journal @JournalSpeech, available as a prepub on @SSRN:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… 3/
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… 3/
This is the big one. It won't last long, but the instability that it unleashes will be devastating for (potentially) billions. Think of it as the snowball that triggers an avalanche. If you thought that the weather of the last couple of weeks was bad, wait...
It is fair to say that a) this event marks the onset of the ravages of advanced climate breakdown, and that b) what we have created as a species is as good as it gets. The ravages will destroy infrastructure far, far faster than we can repair / replace...2
Also as the intensity increases, & it will exponentially, the systems required to repair/replace will be destroyed leading to sudden collapses in supply chains with effects similar to biological co-extinctions. Right now, today, we are either ready - or not.
