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Strypey | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
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> I tried suggesting this to our uni comms team and they just went ‘there’s no moderation on that site’

'You want the uni to have it's own website? But there's no one who moderates the whole internet'. #FacePalm

This is how badly 2 decades of DataFarming has distorted people's thinking about web publishing.
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Strypey | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 @c43763ee Also if this is literally what they said...

> there’s no moderation

... then it's just factually wrong. Every server in the fediverse had some kind of moderation, and those that are moderated poorly tend to end up disconnected from the ones with better moderation.
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2667832e | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 @58db300d I know, I know and they are still on Xitter! They are genuinely clueless
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Strypey | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
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> they are still on Xitter!

Xitter, love it! 😂 Can I use that? I've been calling it Titter for years, but I need to get with the times...