/m/politics is basically unmoderated, and the trolls and other ne'er-do-wells are starting to find it. I'm not even particularly interested in following it, but that's one topic that you don't want to leave unmoderated. It's a troll magnet for obvious reasons, and that starts to affect the rest of the instance (and the...
After 8 months working on Mastodon, in particular on infrastructure for mastodon.social and mastodon.online, I have been able to articulate my vision for the future of Trust & Safery for Mastodon : https://renchap.com/blog/post/evolving_mastodon_trust_and_safety/
We need better tools to go along the growth of the Fediverse, and they need to enable multiple instances to work together on those topics and keep our loved network safe for everyone!
A small group of people were offended by a joke that unintentionally came across transphobic, and as a result this persons account was blacklisted. Even after getting the account reinstated, there were lasting complications with the state of the account (these probably technical issues) and the account was basically lost for...
So i spent a few hours guaranteeing 20 instances, and adding about 25 or 30 endorsements/censors/hesitations.
I love the idea and I think it has a LOT of potential.
Regardless I want to list it all here so the effected instances can be aware and if they wish respond/react. You can read my reason for endorsement of any of the below servers in the links provided.
“Some of your posts have been reported by a user and I resolved it so far.
In the future. Please make sure not to insult others and be rude.”
Here’s my suggestion to the moderators of mstdn.social: Stop tone policing people on other instances. I’m not on your instance and I’ll speak my mind as I like on my own one. If anyone has a problem with that, they can block me. It’s not your job to tone police the fediverse even if you are a mega instance.
Je viens de voir les mails de modération - que je ne regarde vraiment pas assez - et j'ai dedans un mail de l'Intérieur : Notification de la présence
d'un contenu illicite.
Il date du 3 juillet et tout est rentré dans l'ordre tout seul.
M'enfin, c'est un peu l'angoisse.
Sachez-le, contrairement au gros services des GAFAM, nous, les p'tits, n'avons pas trop les moyens de gérer tout et n'importe quoi.
Soyez cool, ne foutez pas les bénévoles dans la mouise.
Only system administrators can get accounts, but users can view the data
a chain of trust which in and of itself only proves you arent a spammer. Anyone in the chain of trust can add other instances. Once an instance is in the chain then their admin can get an account and contribute
an instance in the chain of trust can add up to 20 other instances to the chain of trust. Should the instance loose their trust from their parent then the entire chain breaks including instances it trusted.
You can add endorsements.. this is stronger than adding someone to the chain of trust. It is a way of you saying "this is a good server" and explaining what features make them a server you endorce
You can censure instances too, these are instances you block and give reasons why.
there are also lesser categories like hesitations where you can list concerns but not suggesting blocking.
All this can be automatically populated from your instances black/white list if you wish. Or you can add entries manually
you get a little badge you can put on your servers about me that shows the number of endorsements you have live.
I've been doing some testing tonight with the Calckey software, as their flagship instance has reported that we've not been taking action on reports they've been sending us, however no such reports ever made it to us.
As far as I can currently tell, reports can indeed be remotely reported to us from a Calckey instance, and while they look a bit different on our end, they are still coming through and things we can do something about.
There's a few users I've been keeping an eye on after seeing them post misinformation and hate speech. Just keeping a list for now because I don't know how to report them. Where should I go to do this?
Anyone got an API endpoint of the "most blocked instances" handy? I wanna add it to the initialization flow for the #DistributedPress#SocialInbox
Ideally it'd be nice to say "Here's the top 100 most hated instances so you can preemptively block them if you'd like". It's not perfect but I think this would make it easier for small publishers to get started.
Hmmm, every server I'm getting spam from has a new user in their public directory named yqqwe, and each one of these users is following mastodon_admin_yggwe on a single-user instance mastodon.tinynews.org. One can look at the 924 followers of this admin and they all are named yqqwe and they are all on servers I've been getting #spam from. #fediverse#moderation#administration
Really line drawing exercises are a tremendously under-utilized are of #ethics reasoning and #moderation decisions, especially by people who don't think that they do this professionally.
A minor rant because I'm tired and it is topical.
What are line drawing exercises?
Let's start with how this comes up, work our way into a topical example, and then circle back and look at it from an ethics reasoning standpoint in software.
First, let's create a hypothetical server. Call it Alice…
Active moderation against racism, sexism, homophobia and transphobia
Users must have the confidence that they are joining a safe space,
free from white supremacy, anti-semitism and transphobia of other platforms.
this is a smoke screen.
Liberation must be for EVERYONE. Or all it does is change who gets to be on top.
NO SUPREMACY should be encouraged
We need a universal ban on hate for ANY protected group
Hello kbin! Since there’s a lot of new users migrating to this platform, I decided to make a short guide to creating and moderating a magazine. This will be a quick and short guide since there will be a lot of new features coming soon. I might make a new guide when a few major tools come, but in the meantime, I will...
OC Telegram is a breeding ground for extremists, scammers, and terrorists. It’s time for moderation to get serious. (medium.com)
/m/politics has no moderators other than ernest
/m/politics is basically unmoderated, and the trolls and other ne'er-do-wells are starting to find it. I'm not even particularly interested in following it, but that's one topic that you don't want to leave unmoderated. It's a troll magnet for obvious reasons, and that starts to affect the rest of the instance (and the...
YouTube starts mass takedowns of videos promoting “harmful or ineffective” cancer cures (www.theverge.com)
It’s attempting to streamline its health moderation policies.
OC Banning spam accounts
Banning spam accounts on kbin.social is a cumbersome affair....
An interesting case of moderation in the fediverse (blog.ownlifeful.com)
A small group of people were offended by a joke that unintentionally came across transphobic, and as a result this persons account was blacklisted. Even after getting the account reinstated, there were lasting complications with the state of the account (these probably technical issues) and the account was basically lost for...
How to report users and/or posts?
There's a few users I've been keeping an eye on after seeing them post misinformation and hate speech. Just keeping a list for now because I don't know how to report them. Where should I go to do this?
OC A quick guide to creating and moderating magazines
Hello kbin! Since there’s a lot of new users migrating to this platform, I decided to make a short guide to creating and moderating a magazine. This will be a quick and short guide since there will be a lot of new features coming soon. I might make a new guide when a few major tools come, but in the meantime, I will...