{
  "id": 1487,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.05069v2",
  "title": "Federating Governance: How Community Rules Scale with Mastodon Instances",
  "summary": "The rise of decentralized social media platforms like Mastodon and Bluesky highlights the challenge of scaling self-governance and moderation. As communities grow, they face new issues that demand increasingly complex governance structures. However, as moderation is mainly volunteer-driven, there is limited formal guidance on how community rules and moderation practices should evolve with growth. This study investigates how moderation scale with Mastodon instances by analyzing community rules ac",
  "authors": "Rasika Muralidharan, Yong-Yeol Ahn, Bao Tran Truong",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "regulation,finance-investment",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-06-03T16:29:45.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-14T14:15:17.104Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-ethics",
  "source_name": "arXiv",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/1487",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.05069v2",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}