1.) This is part of the background narratives being pushed by the rich and powerful that we need AI and bit tech to moderate us when the opposite is true, we need more humans involved in moderation who have a stake in their community.

2.) The prevailing winds in the tech journalism sphere have always been strangely blowing against the Fediverse since the beginning. The simplest possible explanation to me is there is a lot of money in writing off the Fediverse as a cool nerdy space that nonetheless is an unrealistic solution for everybody else and a Harvard MBA is needed to translate the Fediverse into a product the public can actually use.

You will NOT notice this same prevailing winds against for profit corporate social networks like Bluesky and Threads… and it is a curious thing isn’t it…