If they don’t matter currently for moderation I have to imagine they’ll be part of a moderation toolkit eventually. Leveraging community voting to detect spam would be decently effective, especially for fresh accounts.

I unfortunately do not have the authority to create courses, also something something accreditation boards

(as a person who works in upper-level IT for a large public university and could make this decision) My biggest concern is not hosting costs in terms of compute, bandwidth, or storage. Like the article said, It’s in the human cost of moderating local communities, moderating the defederation lists, and in explaining to parents why their kid seeing goatse on lemmy.uni.edu via some federated troll instance is not my fault.

The mod tools really aren’t there yet for it to be worth the risk I think, but I will be honest I’ve thought about pitching it.

Is i2p just a privacy guard to torrent over? Or does it actually help one find content as well?