Quintessence Anx
Quintessence Anx is the co-founder and Executive Director of The Nivenly Foundation, a nonprofit co-operative for open source governance. She is also the head moderator of the Hachyderm Mastodon instance, where she authored all community guidelines and trust & safety policies. Hachyderm uses a preventative moderation model of her design to reduce harm and protect the community proactively.
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The Hachyderm Mastodon instance has around 10k active users and 45k accounts total. The instance itself is centered on trans and queer technologists and has an abundance of cisgender allies as well.
The founding of the instance, and how it is run today, has presented unique challenges for how we keep our members safe while also allowing us to have a mostly open registration. One of the more unique, at least in terms of the Fediverse, practices we have is how we handle preventative moderation. i.e. Find the harm before it reaches us.