>It was solved for you.

It was solved for everyone for a long time.

>There are more people than just you (and other tech literate folk) online.

And if you bury the algorithms a lot of the other people will simply go away.

>I’ve dedicated a portion of my life volunteering to moderate content in communities. It is an unmitigated shit show. The status quo is great for firms and corrosive for society.

I stopped doing so over a decade ago. 9/10 other moderators are trying to win some kind of parasocial relationship with owners/developers/whatever. I have seen really good teams moderating really well, but they are the exception not the rule. I don't think anything proposed in this thread has any bearing on content moderation one way or the other.

>If there's a takeaway from this sub thread, is why “meta being broken up and sold for scraps” not being raised as a question in the first place.

The government and advertisers are addicted to the data that it generates. The social graph has basically replaced humint entirely for security services. Most of the defense against terrorism these days relies on idiots sending facebook messages with the details of their plans. The successful terrorists are now the ones that don't have meaningful friendships to blurt their plans out to. Its our panopticon, and "Too big to fail" doesn't even begin to describe it. Its just a matter of time until a western nation uses the data to persecute minorities, heck some people think the US government is already.

Which is why giving them more data to hoover up isn't a solution. Advertisers are squealing right now because so much content and engagement is completely fake, and they are worried about losing even more money if age detection systems add any more friction to usage. But the security agencies, the silent partner, are just patiently waiting for the kinks to be worked out.