It's legitimately interesting to see how often volunteer moderation/server leadership is seen as a vulnerability or a problem in spaces where unpaid open-source dev work is positioned as normal or ideal.
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@kissane Not disagreeing, but (but) I think a factor in this is the sense that if a dev walks away the code is still there,¹ whereas moderation is “on call” work,² and this is in fact weird considering how we (we) usually value artifact work v. care work.
1. Just to be very clear, I think this is correct only at the most surface level and overlooks how much of good development is continuing community management.
2. JTBVC, I think this is also wrong-ish, but now I’m at my character limit.
@vruba That's absolutely part of the weirdness I mean, footnotes notwithstanding!
There's a lot there, I think. Probably most of it is just the pervasiveness of industrial models of trust & safety, but I don't think that's the only thing.