> Finally, and perhaps most importantly, we’re going to invest deeply in trust & safety. We want everyone, especially marginalized communities, to feel safe on our platform. We’re working on building a stronger trust & safety function—including hiring—which will contribute to new features, educate instance admins about best practices, assess community needs, and partner with organizations like IFTAS to share insights and expand the availability of resources in this critical area.
This would probably more affect the mastodon.social instance rather than the Fediverse as a whole. But since that instance is so huge, a lot of the spam and abuse comes from there.
From the announcement:
> Finally, and perhaps most importantly, we’re going to invest deeply in trust & safety. We want everyone, especially marginalized communities, to feel safe on our platform. We’re working on building a stronger trust & safety function—including hiring—which will contribute to new features, educate instance admins about best practices, assess community needs, and partner with organizations like IFTAS to share insights and expand the availability of resources in this critical area.
Mastodon has a good track record so I'm going to give them some benefit of the doubt.
This would probably more affect the mastodon.social instance rather than the Fediverse as a whole. But since that instance is so huge, a lot of the spam and abuse comes from there.