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   Dan Fixes Coin-Ops (ifixcoinops@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 11-Nov-2022 22:30:20 JST Dan Fixes Coin-Ops

   Shall I post a take about content moderation and federation and then immediately go to bed, what's the worst that could happen

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     Dan Fixes Coin-Ops (ifixcoinops@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 11-Nov-2022 22:30:16 JST Dan Fixes Coin-Ops

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     This internet rando - probably not rich, has a job just like you, normal everyday person you'd bump into in the pub - is paying for the computer their website lives on, and the electricity and bandwidth it uses. Someone's paying for you to post, paying for the disk space your account takes up, doing the work of moderation and systems administration. So first, it'd be a kindness to find out who your admin is and ask them politely if they'd like some money.

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     Dan Fixes Coin-Ops (ifixcoinops@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 11-Nov-2022 22:30:17 JST Dan Fixes Coin-Ops

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     You're probably aware by now that the Fediverse isn't one website, it's a whole bunch of websites that speak to each other through a common protocol, passing your posts around and processing replies and faves and boosts and all that jazz, and that's what we're talking about when we talk about federation. Each website is owned and operated by Some Random Community-Minded Internet Person. Not a company, just some rando like you, and this rando has final say on what they want on their server.

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     Dan Fixes Coin-Ops (ifixcoinops@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 11-Nov-2022 22:30:18 JST Dan Fixes Coin-Ops

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     Seen a lotta posts about how to use CWs and such, haven't yet seen one about person-to-admin-to-server-level moderation/blocking but have seen some discussions where talking about that would clear up some confusion and worries so, here goes.

     You have more power here than you did on the other place, both as an individual and as part of a collective, because of how federation works.

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     Dan Fixes Coin-Ops (ifixcoinops@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 11-Nov-2022 22:30:19 JST Dan Fixes Coin-Ops

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     Alright heck it yeah go on then

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     Dan Fixes Coin-Ops (ifixcoinops@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 10-Nov-2023 14:12:08 JST Dan Fixes Coin-Ops

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     Second, you might well imagine if Jimmy Bigot turns up and posts hate on your admin's hard drive, they may well be quite miffed at paying actual money to enable Jimmy Bigot's Hate Hole. You see it as JB posting on a website, your admin thinks "He's posting that crap on MY MACHINE and I'm PAYING for it!" There's no advertising here. Jimmy Bigot doesn't make Server Admin any money. Jimmy Bigot COSTS Server Admin money, so if you report JB, you're more likely to have your report taken seriously.

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     Dan Fixes Coin-Ops (ifixcoinops@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 10-Nov-2023 14:12:08 JST Dan Fixes Coin-Ops

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     But what if Jimmy Bigot's not on the same server as you? Say you're on tootings.website and JB's on wankers.horse. Well, you can block Jimmy Bigot or, if you take a look at wankers.horse in general and Do Not Like What You See No Siree Bob, you can block the entirety of wankers.horse, but do be aware that wankers can just log out of wankers.horse and see of your account whatever any other internet user sees.

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     Dan Fixes Coin-Ops (ifixcoinops@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 10-Nov-2023 14:12:10 JST Dan Fixes Coin-Ops

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     • grin

     @grin Worst would be if it got a thousand boosts and then I realised I'd made a dreadful mistake and ended up posting Misinformation On The Fediverse

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     grin (grin@mastodon.grin.hu)'s status on Friday, 10-Nov-2023 14:12:12 JST grin

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     @ifixcoinops maybe that it's TL;DR and everone just skips it? ;-)

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     Loungeiguana (loungeiguana@mastodonapp.uk)'s status on Friday, 10-Nov-2023 14:12:14 JST Loungeiguana

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     @ifixcoinops thanks - this is really interesting to a Mastodon newbie