We are small, and it will be good to see to what level it scales. As I mentioned, I am watching Beehaw closely as they are trying this approach and are the second largest instance, likely to hit your 10k threshold in the next week (though they are actively denying new users from signing up).

The HDCA you link is pretty basic. I don’t think anyone would argue we would want any of that, and I think it all falls under the existing rule. In fact, I think our rule covers far more than that list.

Breaching court suppression orders also falls under our rule. My understanding of reporting is that if you report a post from another instance from here, then both instance moderators get a report. We can block a post from another instance, then it won’t show up here.

I think the general idea I’m getting at is that we as a community will decide over time what is or isn’t acceptable, but some things are black and white. This is not intended to be an unmoderated wild west instance where we allow things not allowed on more mainstream social media, instead it should be an inviting place, and we don’t get that from moderators behind the scenes deleting stuff that seems non-inviting based on their opinion.

Note that the moderator log is open to anyone, you can see this by clicking the “Modlog” link at the bottom of any page. However, this is federated, so shows moderator activities from communities on other instances that we federate with. I’d like to be very transparent about moderation and not to be ban-heavy but instead encourage the discussion you’d see in real-life communities.