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Thanks for responding and for taking a thoughtful approach with this. I would very much like the fediverse to eventually replace corporate social media, so it's good to see folks working on governance and policy with an eye to the future. And obviously I get that this can take time, especially when people are doing so on a volunteer basis.

I'd suggest, though, asking community members for suggestions & feedback early in the process, and also to seek out existing work on the topic of online community safety & governance, especially by women, BIPOC and queer folks, if you haven't already.

When I had looked through the mod log recently, there was also a case where a post from the Toronto Sun (to be clear, fuck the Toronto Sun) had been taken down with the reason being something like "American owned propaganda newspaper" and then reinstated. There at least need to be some clear guidelines around what can be posted, it can't just be completely made up on the fly.

Don't feel obliged to respond to this message, I just wanted to communicate these things to you. Thanks again