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Any social internet worth thinking about needs to be built on the idea of care.
- care for the wellbeing of the people on the network (moderation)
- care for those doing extra work (like moderation)
- care for each other (add alt-texts to images, thinking about inclusivity etc)
- care to make running infrastructure sustainable (in all respects)
The social Internet needs to be a web of human care.

It is clear Trump now has another platform, after X , to control people in the US and feed them with disinformation. They supplement each other nicely with regard to age groups etc. If FB, WhatsApp, LinkedIn also tighten their "moderation" with regard to anti-trump sentiments, an Orwellian picture emerges.
https://www.

TikTok Is Now Collecting Even More Data About Its Users. Here Are the 3 Biggest Changes
According to its new privacy policy, TikTok now collects more data on its users, including their precise location, after majority ownership officially switched to a group based in the US.

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice... moderation in the pursuit
of justice is no virtue.
-- Barry Goldwater

Panel asking what nostr doesnt fix?
Relay centralisation could enable censorship, and the UI asking users to manage private keys is tricky.
Could one app become a centralisation choke point? They say no. Agreed. Nostr has very good migration here, if one app goes bad it's easy to move.
Privacy is not solved here, since almost all content is public anyway, by design. But since so users have public keys, it's a step towards enabling privacy. Agreed, and at least clients won't generally spy on every mouse click and scroll pause.
No mention of the thing I think most important, that censorship resistance means poor moderation that means bullying, spam, and harassment. That's tricky to solve I think. The fediverse model seems more suitable for good moderation.
#nostr #nostrshire

A rare report in a Chinese state publication of a cyberattack on a Chinese internet platform.
“Short-video platform Kuaishou was hit by a wave of sexually explicit livestreams that temporarily overwhelmed its content moderation systems on Monday evening”
https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/2025…

Kuaishou reports cyberattack as explicit content flood livestreams

Q&A with Roblox co-founder and CEO David Baszucki on using face scans to verify age, having a chat function on Roblox, AI content moderation at scale, and more (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/podcasts/hardfork-roblox-child-safety.html

We Asked Roblox’s C.E.O. About Child Safety. It Got Tense.
This week the company announced that it would require users to undergo an A.I.-powered age estimation process in order to chat with others on the platform. Will this change reassure parents?

This is neat!
https://discuss.systems/@ricci/115588155544171064

11 minutes. The post I was going to report was only 11 minutes old and the account has already been deleted. Good job mods at mastodon.social!
#mod #moderation

Sources: the EU plans to designate WhatsApp's Channels as a Very Large Online Platform under the DSA, meaning it must meet moderation and transparency standards (Gian Volpicelli/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Over on #Bluesky there was a bit of a controversy over the suspension of Sarah Kendzior. I thought it was an interestingly nontrivial moderation problem, so I wrote up a little case study on how this would have been handled on Mastodon: http…

Kendzior Case-Study

It would be great if there was one simple trick for winning elections. But 'just be more moderate' isn't it.
In fact, you can use the NYT's exact method to 'prove' a 'Progressive Advantage' of 1.4 pts.
This piece shows what's really going on: funded candidates do better than unfunded ones.
-- Adam Bonica

The New York Times’ “Moderation Advantage” Is a Statistical Illusion
After accounting for money and incumbency the supposed electoral bonus for moderate candidates vanishes entirely.

Sources: the EU plans to designate WhatsApp's Channels as a Very Large Online Platform under the DSA, meaning it must meet moderation and transparency standards (Gian Volpicelli/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

And this is working, but it's slow progress.
Mastodon in particular has UX problems that will be very hard to overcome that prevent mass adoption, foremost is that actual conversations (aka replies) are unreliable and slow due to the way posts are distributed. Quote post support was a huge first step to remedy this. I hope we'll see more updates on it.
Bluesky got a big chunk of former Twitter users, especially in some niches like for scientists and activists; they have great performance, reliable threading and replies and really amazing featuers like fully custom feeds—but suffer from intransparent moderation and frankly insufferable leadership (still leagues better than Twitter or Facebook though).
(There's more than these, but these are what I use.)

"Another priority is the issue of free speech, which they regard as very important. The way to understand this, I think, is that it's mostly a question about moderation on social media and that they don't like that."
I think you are much too kind here, @… .

New U.S. security strategy calls for regime change in Europe
In this video, I discuss the new U.S. national security strategy, which, to put it mildly, is concerning for Europe. It's largely a document about how the Trump administration sees it as a requirement for continued transatlantic cooperation that MAGA movements come to power in European countries. Watch the

"Statt die Jugendlichen aus digitalen Räumen auszusperren, braucht es gezielte Maßnahmen, um diese Risiken abzufedern: bessere Moderation, klare Haftungsregeln für Plattformen, eine Entschärfung manipulativer Empfehlungssysteme und vor allem systematische Medienbildung in Schule und Familie." | Oliver Jessner
Facebook, Tiktok, Instagram: Ein #SocialMediaVerbot für unte…

It's the end of the month again and that means new bills for the servers! We have various expenses and moderation work unfortunately takes up a lot of time, which is why we would be very happy about a little support! :boost_requested:

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Immer mehr Mastodon Instanzen treten plötzlich aus dem osteuropäischen Raum hervor, die einfach nur als Verbreiter von kommerziellem Müll von irgendwelchen WordPress Seiten dienen, gepaart mit Free Speech Anspruch ohne Moderation. Diese Instanzen versuchen, auf weiteren kleineren Instanzen zusätzliche Bot oder Plugin Accounts zu erstellen, um so ihren Müll noch besser und schneller verbreiten zu können.
Wer macht in diesen Tagen ähnliche Erfahrungen?

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/115835690251372850
Fascinating chart of the decrease in Stack Overflow questions … and fascinating thread of replies. The answer seems a bit more complex for Stack Overflow… their change in moderation policy in 2023 a…

#Fediverse #Blocklists: #Moderation in Noncapitalist #SocialMedia

> the paper explore…

Scharfrichterbeil 2025
Der Passauer Wettbewerb präsentierte fünf Beiträge aus Kabarett, Musik und visueller Comedy: Mario Sacher, AnnPhie Fritz, Maxi Pongratz, @nikonagl und das Duo Burloni (@valter_rado). Moderation: Matthias Egersdörfer. - Es gewannen Maxi Pongratz (1. Preis), AnnPhie Fritz (2.) und das Duo Burloni (3.).
h…

Monsieur Momo gewinnt Paulaner Solo
Zweiter und Publikumssieger beim Nachwuchswettbewerb wurde Tobias Gnacke, auf den dritten Platz kam Christine Schütze, Vierter wurde Jan Bätz. Moderation: Michael Altinger.
https://www.kabarett-news.de/News-vom-31.10.2025-paulaner-…

On tenant compte du trafic en ville une voiture perd 2 secondes par 100m si la limite est 30 km/h au lieu de 50 km/h. Pour traverser Lausanne, c’est maximal 3 km. Donc une voiture ou un bus prend au max 1 minute de retard Š cause de cette mesure. On comprend bien que les retards dans le transports public n’ont pas de lien avec le régime de vitesse. https://www.lausanne.ch/vie-pratique/mobilite/mobilite-et-circulation/moderation-du-trafic/mythe-ou-verite-du-30km-h.html

#TechCrunch provides a nice »beginner’s guide to #Mastodon, the #OpenSource #Twitter alternative« ¹
🤔 What is Mastodon? How do you create an account?
🤔 What is Mastodon’s #moderation policy?
🤔 What are the benefits compared with Twitter/X?
🤔 Does it work with #Bluesky & #Threads?
And much more!
Amanda Silberling, 1 Jan. 2026
👉 #DIDit #IDIDIT #DigitalIndependenceDay
#DID #DigitalerUnabhängigkeitstag
#DUT #DutGemacht #SaveSocial #DIDaySupportCommunity