Why decentralized content moderation isn’t easier — it changes where power sits
Moving moderation onto an open protocol doesn’t make the hard calls disappear. It changes who holds the power to make them — and where accountability has to live.
Writing
Essays on moderation, governance, and the architecture of online safety
Occasional, practitioner-grade writing — what scaling trust & safety actually looks like from the inside.
Published elsewhere
Guest essays and co-authored research, linked at their original homes.
Moderating With Humans, For Humans
“When I joined Bluesky, one of my first promises was that we would get things wrong.” On the impossible trade-offs every moderation system makes — and how Bluesky lives with them.
New Paradigms in Trust & Safety: Navigating Defederation
Co-authored with Yoel Roth, Renée DiResta, Kate Klonick, Mallory Knodel and Evan Prodromou — how governance, accountability, and moderation work across decentralized and federated social media.