Ruud Schilders, admin of mastodon.world, had about 100 people on the server before the Twitter acquisition in 2022. New signups saw the number of active users peak at around 120,000 in November, Schilders says. But with all of that new traffic came extra hate speech and obscene content. “I’ve learned of things I didn’t want to know,” Schilders says. By early February, the active user count had dropped to around 49,000 active users—still many more than the server had before.
Schilders has recruited content moderators and has funding from donations in the bank to cover monthly server costs. But he says running the
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