I don’t think it’s a good idea to build any kind of social networking application without moderation and filtering tools. Both for server admins and users.
Agree! Chatter Net is built to be self-moderating. The currently implementation (conversely.social) isn't fully using this yet.
From the user point of view, the idea is simple: you receive messages only from people you follow. As people in your network emit "view" messages (about other posts), those posts will make it to your inbox. It's a sort gossip mechanism.
There's another side to this coin: as a server administrator you might not want to host arbitrary content. So a server is free to filter content using any rules. The simplest of which would be to allow content only from trusted accounts.
A user is free to connect to any server, and if that server accepts their content, this is how they can send messages. A server is free to server only the information it wants to share. A user should be connected to multiple servers, and these can change session-to-session.
This is meant to be transparent to the user, you just go any site that delivers the front-end which can run a Chatter Net node, and that node will listen to what servers others are connecting to, and connect to those servers.
The hope is that communities will form around certain servers / moderation styles. But ultimately, the user chooses what they consume.
yeah, no moderation is just spam bots talking to other spam bots.
edit: the author specified below that moderation is on the to-do list, they’re hoping someone with moderation ideas will help with implementation later—it just hasn’t been added yet.
