Tootfinder

if i ever get exposed for having a questionable search history my best and most likely honest excuse will be all my mastodon moderation work... you post some weird links, folks

Ich liege zwar hustend im Bett, aber dank moderner Technik bin ich gleich bei #Breitband im #DLFKultur zum Thema #Deepfakes zu hören.
Schaltet die Radiogeräte ein, wenn Ihr welche habt!

BlueSky “3 strikes” moderation team

In the interests of starting a more productive dialogue than yesterday's main character was interested in, let's make a #brainstorm thread about design changes to ActivityPub and/or client UI that could actually help address drive-by (often racist) harassment on the fediverse.
Feel free to discuss pros/cons but don't feel an idea needs to be perfect to suggest it. Also since this is a brainstorm don't worry about complexity/implementation cost. If you have a great-but-hard-to-implement idea someone else may think of a way to simplify it.
Note that the underlying problem *is* a social one, do there won't be a technological fix! But tech changes can make social remedies easier/harder.
I've got some to start:
1. Have a "protected mode" that users can voluntarily turn on. Some servers might turn it on by default. In protected mode, users whose accounts are less than D days old and/or who have fewer than F followers can't reply to or DM you. F and D could have different values for same-sever vs. different-server accounts, and could be customized by each user. Obviously a dedicated harasser can get around this, but it ups the activation energy for block evasion and pile-ons a bit. Would be interesting to review moderation records to estimate how helpful this might or might not be. Could also have a setting to require "follows-from-my-server" although that might be too limiting on private servers. Restriction would be turned off for people you mention within that thread and could be set to unlimit anyone you've ever mentioned. Would this lock new users out of engagement entirely? If everyone had it on via a default, you'd have you post your own stuff until someone followed you (assuming F=1). One could add "R non-moderated replies" and/or "F favorites" options to soften things; those experiencing more harassment could set higher limits. When muting/blocking/reporting someone who replied to your post, protected mode could be suggested with settings that would have filtered the post you're reporting.
2. Enable some form of public moderation info to be displayed when both moderator and local server opt-in. Obviously each server would be able to ignore federated public tags. I'm imagining "banned from X server for R reason (optional link to evidence)" appearing on someone's profile & an icon on their PFP in each post viewed by someone on server Y *if* the mods of server X decide it's appropriate *and* server Y opts in to displaying such tags from server X specifically. Alliances of servers with similar moderation preferences could then have moderation action on one server result in clear warning propagation to others without the other mods needing to decide whether to also take action immediately. In some cases different moderation preferences would mean you wouldn't take action yourself but would keep the notice up for your users to consider. Obviously the "Scarlet Letter" vibe ain't great, but in some cases it's deserved, and when there's disagreement between servers about that, mods on server Y could either disable a specific tag or disable federation of mod tags from that server in general. Even better shared moderation tools are of course possible.
3. Different people/groups have different norms around boosting. Currently we only have a locked/public binary. Without any big protocol changes, adding a "prefers boosts/doesn't" setting which would warn in the UI before a viewer chooses to boost if the preference is "doesn't" could help. This could be set per-post, but could also have defaults and could have different values for same-server or not, or for particular servers. For example, I could say "default to prefer boosts from users on my server but not from users on other servers" or "default to prefer boosting on all servers except mastodon.social." Last option might be harder to implement I guess.
#ActivityPub #Meta #Harassment

Pinterest users, especially artists, says the platform has gotten worse in the past year due to AI moderation, AI-generated art, and AI features (Matthew Gault/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/pinterest-is-drowning-in-a-sea-of-ai-slop-and-auto-moderat…

Pinterest Is Drowning in a Sea of AI Slop and Auto-Moderation
Users are exhausted fighting AI moderation, AI-generated art, and AI-first features.

You cannot "just ignore them." That is how you destroy a community. Moderation is always necessary.
https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/cant-ignore-them

What if we drank bleach in moderation?
The Guardian writing about AI

Ehrenpreis für Kai Magnus Sting
Der Kabarettist @kaimagnussting wird beim "Best of NachtSchnittchen" in Datteln im Mai ausgezeichnet - Moderation: @helmutsanftenschneider
http://www.kabarett-news.de/News-vom-05.05.2026-ehrenpreis-fuer-kai-…

Lots on the #fedi today about #gatekeeping and #inclusion and #moderation.
Popper's Paradox of Intolerance gets thrown arou…

Pinterest Is Drowning in a Sea of AI Slop and Auto-Moderation https://www.404media.co/pinterest-is-drowning-in-a-sea-of-ai-slop-and-auto-moderation/

#FrauenStreik am 9. März 26 (nach Feierabend, denn das Streikrecht gibt weder Generalstreik noch Aufruf aus außertariflichen Gründen her)
#Hamburg Kommt ihr alle?
Natürlich auch alle #Feminist…

Let op: #ARD #Sonntagskrimi met #tatortbegint wat later:
Vorschau: Brennpunkt: Iran – Krieg im Nahen Osten • Moderation: Christian Nitsche
https://www.ardmediathek.de/tv-programm/69a43b7c89402f041de41a57
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It's the beginning 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:

• :liberapay: LiberaPay
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MastodonDE's profile - Liberapay
You can find a complete and detailed explanation of our maintenance costs here: English German

Here is wisdom. I learned this too late in life, and am still not sure I’ve learned it well:
❝Don’t feel like you need to fix everything. A common response to bearing witness to another’s trauma is to try and fix it. We don’t want others to suffer. That said, you may not be offering what the other person or group is clearly stating they need. If they need you to listen, and you choose to act but not listen, then you have both not supported them in their trauma and violated a boundary.❞
https://community.hachyderm.io/blog/2024/08/12/hachyderms-introduction-to-mastodon-moderation-part-1/

Meta plans to reduce its reliance on third-party vendors for content moderation, in favor of AI tools that it says are better at spotting scams and other tasks (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Meta to Reduce Role of Outside Content Moderators in Favor of AI
Meta Platforms Inc. will soon cut back on its use of third-party vendors to help with content moderation, relying instead on advanced artificial intelligence systems to detect and remove posts that violate the company’s terms of service.

'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back
Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.
🌎 https://www.404media.co/ai-is-african-inte…

'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back
Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

Mastodon announced it will add five much-needed features and improvements
thanks to funding from the German government’s Sovereign Tech Agency.
The five deliverables include:
🔸Blocklist synchronisation
To improve moderation and safety, Mastodon servers will be able to subscribe to shared blocklists to block offending servers or suggest servers to block automatically.
🔸Remote media storage
Mastodon will add support for the Fediverse Auxiliary Service Provide…

Mastodon will get end-to-end encryption for private messages thanks to Sovereign Tech Agency
The Sovereign Tech Agency, commissioned by Germany's Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, has awarded hundreds of thousands of Euros to Mastodon to address key infrastructure challenges faced within the fediverse ecosystem.

Meta's Oversight Board calls for an AI content moderation overhaul, saying current methods are not "comprehensive enough" to handle misinformation in a conflict (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/891933/meta-

Meta’s deepfake moderation isn’t good enough, says Oversight Board
Meta’s methods for identifying deepfakes are “not robust or comprehensive enough” to handle how quickly misinformation spreads during armed conflicts.

* Ihr bekommt eine Kategorie im Forum, die ihr selbst gestalten könnt. Eigenes Logo, eigener Hintergrund, eigene Mitglieder, eigene Moderation, beliebige Unterkategorien etc.
Ihr entscheidet, ob ihr öffentlich sein oder "unter euch bleiben" wollt, ob eure Community föderiert wird, ob ihr Kalender, RSS oder Mastodon-Accounts importiert.
Kurz: Wir geben euch alles an die Hand, was Discourse zu bieten hat. Ihr bekommt eine schlüsselfertige Wohnung in unserem Haus und wir h…

Die Debattenkultur im Netz verschlechtert sich spürbar.
Laut Studie beteiligen sich weniger Menschen – vor allem wegen aggressiver Stimmung und schlechter Diskursqualität.
Moderation hilft, ist aber oft unterfinanziert.
Quelle: #netzpolitik.org
#SocialMedia

@…
What is mastodon.scot's policy on moderation of people posting appeals for help from #Gaza? This morning I have for the second time seen a message
> "Notifications from this account have been filtered because the account or its server has been li…

@… re: moderation …
The two comments that I removed under <https://old.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1…

Meta's Oversight Board calls for an AI content moderation overhaul, saying current methods are not "comprehensive enough" to handle misinformation in a conflict (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/891933/meta-

Meta’s deepfake moderation isn’t good enough, says Oversight Board
Meta’s methods for identifying deepfakes are “not robust or comprehensive enough” to handle how quickly misinformation spreads during armed conflicts.

Kleinkunstpreis Euskirchen 2026
7 Acts treten im Stadttheater gegeneinander an: Krause und Konsorten, Suse Lichtenberger, @amirshahbazz, @…
.bert, Bartuschka, Melvin Haack Mai Horlemann. Moderation: Katharina Hoffmann

Meta's Oversight Board says Community Notes aren't a proper substitute for fact checking, and warns expanding them beyond the US could pose human rights risks (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/metas-ov…

Meta’s Oversight Board warns that “Community Notes” aren’t a proper substitute for fact-checking globally
On Thursday, Meta’s Oversight Board, a quasi-independent body that reviews the social media giant’s moderation practices, ruled that “Community Notes” are not a proper substitute for its fact-checking program. In a new “policy advisory opinion," the Board expressed concerns about …

Todo va de dinero y nada mšs que de dinero. El colega #Trump tonto no es (para lo que quiere). Obligas a Tiktok a vender parte a los americanos para garantizar privacidad y seguridad (que se la pela por completo), y de paso que te caigan 10 billones de dólares por ello.

#pinterest #ai #slop https://www.404media.co/pinterest-is-drowning-in-a-sea-of-ai-slop-and-auto-moderation/

#pinterest #ai #slop https://www.404media.co/pinterest-is-drowning-in-a-sea-of-ai-slop-and-auto-moderation/

Meta's Oversight Board says Community Notes aren't a proper substitute for fact checking, and warns expanding them beyond the US could pose human rights risks (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/metas-ov…

Meta’s Oversight Board warns that “Community Notes” aren’t a proper substitute for fact-checking globally
On Thursday, Meta’s Oversight Board, a quasi-independent body that reviews the social media giant’s moderation practices, ruled that “Community Notes” are not a proper substitute for its fact-checking program. In a new “policy advisory opinion," the Board expressed concerns about …

Verleihung Deutscher Kleinkunstpreis 2026
Die Preisträger*innen: @clausvonwagner (Sparte Kabarett), @william_wahl_musik (Musik), @doktorpop (Kleinkunst), @abdelkarimtv (Stand-up), Ana Lucia (@analuciacruzsaco Förderpreis der Stadt Mainz) und @gardi_hutter (Ehrenpreis des Landes Rheinland-Pfalz). Moderation: @tobiasmann.kabarett.

Meta plans to reduce its reliance on third-party vendors for content moderation, in favor of AI tools that it says are better at spotting scams and other tasks (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Algorithmen irren sich selten – nur etwa 50 Millionen Mal. Seit dem EU-DSA mussten Plattformen massenhaft Sperren zurücknehmen. Stefan Krempl zeigt bei heise: Wenn Nutzer endlich Beschwerdewege haben, schrumpft die angeblich unfehlbare Moderation erstaunlich schnell.
(@…)

Jetzt online ansehen: Die #2MR-Session zu vorbildlicher #Unternehmenskommunikation in offenen sozialen Netzen
👉 #Kommunikations-Praxis von:
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🔹@… von den Energiewerken Schönau @…
🔹@… von #Marketing #Unternehmen #Werbung #SocialMedia #OMR #Datenschutz #Nachhaltigkeit #Verantwortung #KlimaSchutz #Energiewende #DutGemacht

Given my experience with moderation on the #Poiyomi discord two years ago, I’m not at all surprised they got compromised.
https://xcancel.com/poiyomi/status/2043652486276465068?s=20…

'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back https://www.404media.co/ai-is-african-intelligence-the-workers-who-train-ai-are-fighting-back/