“Where did Trust & Safety come from?” and related questions. Scattered thoughts, riffs, and conjectures. Not actual history. — In the beginning, there were harms. No, not yet. First, there’s an idea, a product, a company. You’ve made an app where people can express themselves in some way (text, images, videos, something else, some combo of them…) and with some ingenious and distinctive features (everything is ephemeral… or permanent…