OK fedi, I want to make sure I'm not missing things—please point me to the best arguments on how decentralizing/federating content moderation + other safety work improves outcomes for humans in a world where fedi scales up fast over the next year, compared to centralized networks.
(For adversarial stuff incl spam, CSAM, coordinated inauthentic account networks/influence campaigns, hate speech, semi-pro trolling, professional and non-professional disinfo, covert adversarial instances, etc.)
@kissane interesting, yeah, that's a good word for it. Agreed that it's not necessarily an ideal metaphor, but I do think their ecosystem view points in useful directions -- so for example the idea of a clear-to-toxin-free subregion, with minimal and strictly scrutinized inbound connections from the broader fediverse.
Also, not sure if you've asked this question on Bluesky but it would be interesting to get perspectives there. @damon, @deadsuperhero and I were talking about the differences between the fediverse's and Bluesky's decentralizaiton models and the existence of instances in the fediverse's model allows for moderation in a way that there's no obvious counterpart for in Bluesky's model. Then again, in Bluesky, presumably labelers would put disinfo (etc) tags on things (which app views and feeds could take that into account) and I'm not sure what the fediverse equivalent of that is.
Besides that, among the instances specifically made for content creators with supposedly no quota and youtube imports this one looks like a good on: https://spectra.video that's hosted by @deadsuperhero
Thanks a lot for even considering uploading to peertube (or importing from youtube, which from what I understand can also be done automatically)! Your videos are quite informational (the video on carbon sequestering brought me here). The fediverse will be enriched with your video presence!
A post by yours truly on @wedistribute , looking at the Bad Internet Bills Week of Action that @fight@eff ACLU Woodhull and other organizations just kicked off -- along with thoughts about the fediverse as an activism platform more generally.
On Mastodon, @thenexusofprivacy's FollowFriday posts, one of which cleverly had the actions embedded in it, got some retweeting. But the hashtags are still ... not real active.
Meanwhile, on Bluesky (where I only have about 40 followers), I tagged a few people and shared a link to EFF ... and got a half-dozen reskeets, mostly from people I haven't tagged. It's a good example of cultural differences -- it's closer to the Twitter behavior of reflexively retweeting when you see an activism post for a cause you care about, which isn't the case here.
@deadsuperhero, In retrospect we missed a bet with the article -- we should have framed it as a competition with #bluesky, that would have gotten everybody going! Oh well, live and learn.
Also, from what I read Threads (assuming Facebook calls it that) will be decentralized, as in other companies will be able to install the software upon their own servers. The only requirement is an Instagram login account (I do not think the software will be open source).
This is one of the reasons why blocking will be futile in the long run. It’s why I believe engaging with people on Threads & convincing them to join the greater Fediverse is a better long term strategy.
I plan on using this opportunity to convince many of my friends & family to consider options like Misskey & Pixelfed (Mastodon too, but some have tried that & were not happy—I will reintroduce Mastodon to them again).
I believe the reason most large instances will not block is that their community will not be thrilled that they can not communicate with their relatives on Threads. Most people have great relations with their family & many in the Fediverse (myself included) are on big social platforms because our friends & family are on there.
But in the end we will have to wait & see when Instagram launches Threads.
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