This post is fairly high on the frontpage and seems to be suffering the consequences of interest. But a Slashdot/Sigh/Reddit/Hackernews clone in the federated space is awesome. Be sure to save for later.
What's Sigh? I've searched but can't find anything.
Are there any known dictionaries or mappings from autocorrected text to possibly intended text?
I'd say there is. You could crowd source moderation, but that's susceptible to the same manipulation seen with bitcoin miners.
Culturally speaking, we seek out trustable sources. I'm not sure technology can surmount that.
Why should finding a trustable source be incompatible with using technology? It seems like precisely the sort of problem that technology can help with.
Of course, technology alone can't "solve" trust, but it can keep track of identities and claims and reputations, and even allow implementation of clever algorithms for discovering patterns and making recommendations.
Anyway, here is the plan for decentralized spam/abuse prevention that Matrix is proposing, which looks promising:
https://matrix.org/blog/2020/10/19/combating-abuse-in-matrix...
care to elaborate?