jo, to trustandsafety
@jo@wetdry.world avatar

#X's implementation of its latest decision, to include the term "c*sgender" in their (undoubtedly rancid) collection of swears, curses, and other nasty words, is IMO warranted, as we shouldn't allow the gradual outing of normal persons from an evermore hostile internet.

The main proponents of a successful internet should be its moderation tools. While a manually maintained list is sufficient for most usecases, with the growth and ever increasing need of an internet, we should also look for inclusion of hateful terms identified by automatic tools, such as sentence sentiment analysis, methinks.

k_matusewicz, to fediverse
@k_matusewicz@mastodon.social avatar

Hey , and !

For my MA thesis, I am looking to research on Mastodon, and specifically moderators' experiences with it, how it is enacted on their instance, as well as what it entails.

Are you a moderator of an open registration, general interest instance? If you would be willing to participate in a one-off, 45-60 minute-long (online) interview, please reply to this toot or reach me at k.k.matusewicz@student.rug.nl. Thank you in advance!

Boosts are appreciated:)

ilumium, to trustandsafety
@ilumium@eupolicy.social avatar

The @EU_Commission continues its enforcement firework 🎆

"Commission request information from #X on decreasing content resources under the "

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/mex_24_2522

onlytina, to meta German
@onlytina@todon.eu avatar

Interessant, dass eine Institution da jetzt erst drauf kommt. Manche hier wissen das schon seit Jahren.
Weiss auch nicht, aber was neues ist das jetzt nicht. Meta war schon immer ein Höllenloch, wer sich da rumtreibt, lebt einfach hinterm Mond was Content Moderration, Meldemöglichkeiten und Sanktionierungen von Accounts/Postings angeht.
Als Francis Haugen vor dem EU Parlament aussagte, hätten die dort eigtl schon alles wissen können. Da brauchts nicht erst noch ne eigene Untersuchung. Meta ist das Befinden der Nutzer:innen völlig egal, denen gehts halt einfach nur um Profit. 🤷‍♀️

https://netzpolitik.org/2024/facebook-und-instagram-eu-kommission-untersucht-desinformation-und-drosselung-politischer-inhalte/

https://chaos.social/

btaroli, to mute
@btaroli@federate.social avatar

I have to admit I generally enjoy slack. But in any community there are going to be assholes. One thing I dislike about Slack is the inability to or people. Yes some of them utterly deserve it, and I don’t think I should have to tolerate their virtriol in the normal course of my day.

So instead I must manually stop myself from reading their words and absorbing their attitude. Because if I speak out about then I’m the jerk.

So exhausting. Be better, .

ajussak, to mastodon French
@ajussak@piaille.fr avatar

Je viens de découvrir le principe de "Public Calme" sur Mastodon. Je ne sais pas sur quels critères se repose le principe de calme sur Mastodon mais pourquoi pas 🤔

schizanon, to mastodon
@schizanon@mastodon.social avatar

If you block or mute someone on Mastodon and then they migrate to a new instance, does your block or mute migrate too?

Wander, to trustandsafety
@Wander@packmates.org avatar

approaches:
How to deal with accusations and rumors based on outside drama?

This is a tricky one.
Suppose a user is accused of something that is generally frowned upon or worse. However, this has supposedly happened irl, not in your instance, and also the user has a good track record of being active and generating content that doesn't violate the rules at your instance or other instances. There is also no threat to your userbase (as opposed to, for example, in the case of a doxxer).

What is the best approach?:

1- Suspend the user
2- Kick them out (allow them to migrate away, although this just pushes the problem back to the options below)
3- Let them stay and any disagreeing remote instances suspend the user on their side
4- Let them stay and any disagreeing remote instances suspend your whole instance

IMHO, the only sustainable option is option 3, unless it carries a realistic threat to other users. It's not feasible for small instances to be part-time detectives and unless the content posted itself is problematic or there are other reasons, service mentality should prevail if we don't want to push users to super large instances that don't care.

Any concerned remote users or instances are of course free to block on their side.

A whole instance block is not warranted since the instance itself is not spammy or allowing any problematic content, but merely decides not being capable of making a fair assessment of off-platform rumors.

Am I off track?

NatureMC, (edited ) to KindActions
@NatureMC@mastodon.online avatar

If you get a without your account being locked, the of your have paid attention in advance and warn you about a suspicious account. You can still allow it as a follower, but the one today was indeed extremely suspicious and rubbish.

Friendly reminder: To thank your admins and instance for all their work you can ! Find the possibilities on your instance's page. The is but good /building instances costs time/money. And - tada:

nopatience, to mastodon
@nopatience@swecyb.com avatar

Would be very useful to create a feature in Mastodon which would enable admins of instances to create trusted and exchange relationships for peer blocked domains.

That way I could create a trusted relationship to for example @jerry and @seb and choose to trust their block lists of for example limited servers, or even blocked ones.

That way we would somewhat leverage the Fediverse of selective trusted relationships between instances.

serge, to fediverse
@serge@babka.social avatar

Has anyone considered a Fediverse moderator exchange program?

Basically you'd have a moderator come onto your team and see what your moderation challenges are, how you handle them, etc.

This would be especially useful to marginalized communities which have poor representation on the Fediverse, such as Black instances, Jewish instances, and so on.

Would this be interesting to anyone else?

softlightwizard, to trustandsafety
@softlightwizard@masto.ai avatar

@stux @stux @phillycodehound @antonioserrata Sorry to bother you. Wondering if you plan to defederate masto.ai with threads.net/meta/facebook/instagram. I have a lot of concerns over their policies and practices and that is why I use mastodon, to get away from big corporations. Thanks in advance! (If anyone else knows what the official policy is here, please tell me)

utopiarte, to trustandsafety
schizanon, to twitter
@schizanon@mastodon.social avatar

A Brazilian Supreme Court judge has opened an inquiry into Elon Musk after the multi-billionaire said he would reactivate accounts on the social media platform X, formerly Twitter, that the judge had ordered to be blocked.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cv2ygp5pdqlo

rimu, to trustandsafety
@rimu@mycrowd.ca avatar

I’m pretty happy with how tools for are coming along!

Moderators can:

  • delete & edit anything in community
  • ban people from community, and unban them.
  • review reports about content in that community
  • mark a report as resolved / ignored.

When a report is resolved or ignored, all reports regarding that content are also resolved. So if something receives 150 reports then mods won’t need to click 150 times to resolve all reports. Ignored reports stop all future reports from being accepted.

The person who created the community can appoint other moderators.

Reports federate to and from so if a PieFed user reports some content that came from a Lemmy instance the moderators on the Lemmy instance will be notified about the content being reported.

There’s still more to be done with federation of bans, a moderation log, etc. But it’s shaping up nicely!

https://piefed.social/post/80650

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Nonilex, to meta
@Nonilex@masto.ai avatar

expands labeling policies as 2024 presidential nears
New ‘’ labels will be applied to posts the company detects have been generated by AI Starting May 2024, Meta will identify sounds, images & videos generated by on its amid widespread concern that a rise in “” posts will mislead .

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/04/05/meta-ai-labels/

Raccoon, to mastodon
@Raccoon@techhub.social avatar

Weird bug in and interaction, thought / , , and / people might want to see this.

Got a about a user saying things that were upsetting people, noticed it was from another instance, realized that I had access to the actual account that had sent it. Not sure what this is or why, didn't even realize supported signed reports (I'd honestly like to get more), but obviously that's a risky thing if they didn't know it was happening and didn't know why.

Does anyone know what this is?

Screenshot of reply: they're on Akkoma, don't know why it happened, and don't seem to have experience with how Mastodon handles multi-instance reporting.
Screenshot of my reply, explaining the situation. See post above for the gist.

sublinks, to fediverse
@sublinks@utter.online avatar

https://discuss.online/post/6776820

The Sublinks team has written up a little survey, which we feel is both thorough and inclusive. It covers a wide range of topics, such as user privacy, and community engagement, along with trying to gauge things that are difficult when moderating.

tallship, to fediverse

@fediversenews

!!Moderation request!!

I come home to find my feeds/streams flooded with vitriolic politicial drivel emanating from a group to which I belong that states emphatically that it doesn't tolerate off-topic traffic.

The stated purpose of this Fediverse group on my home Friendica server is stated as follows:

This is a Friendica group dedicated to #Fediverse news. What are the advantages of a group over a hashtag?Groups can do things that hashtags can't. For example, groups:

  • are moderated
  • can re-share content
  • can speak as a group

Joining and contributing to a Friendica group is easy. To share your posts to @Fediverse News, follow these steps:

  1. Follow @Fediverse News
  2. When sharing Fediverse news, tag @Fediverse News
  3. The @Fediverse News group will then re-share your post

This is an actively moderated group. Be sure to stay on topic, or your posts will be removed.

As per the instructions for this Friendica / Fediverse group, I'm notifying the moderation team by CC'ing the following address with this complaint and request to remove the vicious hate that's been spewing into the group here all day long while I've been away working:

@atomicpoet

People who sign up for a Fediverse News site should not be subjected to hatred being fomented, propagated, and bantered about with respect to unrelated matters, such as (abominable) off-topic, political vitriol.

  1. ) Posting announcements concerning the onboarding and subesquent federating nature of a public figure's account on threads.net is a relevant matter to the Fediverse, Fediverse Technology, and Fediverse News.
  2. ) acerbic comentary, name calling, ad hominem, and libel, as has consumed the group today, is not - those posts are a cause of severe harm and should most certainly, IMO be removed as per the terms/rules quoted above.
  3. ) The level of cacophony and pejorative hate speech permitted to continue throughout the day today is shameful. This is not the place to engage or encourage such juvenile behavior, let alone permit it to foment and spread across the Fediverse as it has today!

Moderation Team: Thank you, in advance, for taking your time to address and resolve this matter, returning this group to the decorum it usually enjoys with people conversing and observing the principles of civil discourse.

#tallship #moderation #Civil Discourse #ad-hominem #vitriol #hate speech #harm

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Nonilex, to chinese
@Nonilex@masto.ai avatar

Covert accounts are masquerading online as supporters of , promoting , stoking domestic & attacking President ahead of the election in Nov.

The accts signal a potential tactical shift in how aims to American , w/more of a willingness to target specific candidates & parties, including Biden.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/01/business/media/china-online-disinformation-us-election.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

Nonilex,
@Nonilex@masto.ai avatar

In an echo of ’s campaign, appears to be trying to harness to undermine the admin’s policies, despite recent efforts by the 2 countries to lower the temperature in their relations.

Some of the accounts impersonate fervent fans, including one [still allowed] on #X that purported to be “a father, husband & son” who was “ all the way!!”

Nonilex,
@Nonilex@masto.ai avatar

The accts mocked #Biden’s age & shared fake images of him in a prison jumpsuit, or claimed that Biden was a Satanist pedophile QAnon [#propaganda] while promoting #Trump’s #MAGA slogan.

“I’ve never seen anything along those lines at all before,” said Elise Thomas, a snr analyst at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, a nonprofit research org that uncovered some of the fake accts….

#cybersecurity #moderation #Security #ForeignInfluence #disinformation #ConspiracyTheories #ElectionInterference

alan, to trustandsafety
@alan@subdued.social avatar

We just expanded the section in our server rules to conform to the guidelines against targeted misgendering and deadnaming in the fediverse.

Read more here: https://about.iftas.org/2024/01/30/targeted-misgendering-and-deadnaming-in-the-fediverse/

cc @jaz

faraiwe, to trustandsafety
@faraiwe@mastodon.social avatar

now supports the movement?

Do NOT normalize christofascists who seek to violently topple democracy.

This is NOT ., or shouldn't be

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