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I don't know much about how HN is run but I think it would be a mistake to underestimate the need for human moderation here, and I assume that is a lot of work.

A message forum is simple, old technology. Keeping it usable and useful for humans is not.

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I don't think the parent meant that it doesn't need moderation, but we've always had that in IRC/boards etc.

But there's nothing akin to personalised algorithms, resharing posts, multimedia content etc. I mean even text formatting is very lean :)

that's absolutely true, it's also the fastest website i use daily, by a large margin

> I think it would be a mistake to underestimate the need for human moderation here

Bingo. As anyone that’s tried to run a Mastodon instance for more than just family and friends will tell you.

Even family can be challenging ...

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