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   Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Feb-2026 23:28:55 JST Evan Prodromou

   So, one thing I said at #FediMTL yesterday is that Fediverse software should ship with the IFTAS DNI list as the default, minimum blocklist. Ideally, the list should periodically auto-update.

   If you *want* to see gore, racist harassment, or transphobia, you can consciously remove those sites from your blocklist. If you want to subscribe to a different blocklist, you should get to do that, too.

   Fediverse admins shouldn't have to learn how to find the DNI list and install it the hard way.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Feb-2026 23:31:09 JST Evan Prodromou

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     I am putting this on the potential projects list for SWF.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Feb-2026 23:32:01 JST Evan Prodromou

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     And, sorry, "the hard way" being the terrorizing of one of your users by dozens of racist, misogynistic or homophobic trolls.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Feb-2026 23:38:15 JST Evan Prodromou

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     Blocklists are a powerful tool. Governance is important. I think the Fediverse community can work with IFTAS to maintain transparency and accountability in the DNI list.

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     jonw (jonw@cosocial.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Feb-2026 23:49:06 JST jonw

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     @evan This idea is feels like the beginnings of algorithmic social media utilizing the tyranny of the defaults as its deployment mechanism.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Feb-2026 23:51:16 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • jonw

     @jonw it's not the beginning of anything and it is not tantamount to anything. It is common sense that protects vulnerable people from vicious attacks.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 26-Feb-2026 00:01:37 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • william ⁂ maggos

     @wjmaggos you should start a project to maintain that blocklist!

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     william ⁂ maggos (wjmaggos@liberal.city)'s status on Thursday, 26-Feb-2026 00:01:38 JST william ⁂ maggos

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     @evan

     I disagree. The only servers that should be blocked are those that fail to address their users who engage in unwanted tagging. That's harassment/abuse. It drives away users. I could support a list of servers somehow so verified.

     But to go further than this is a kind of censorship of content allowed elsewhere on the web. Stuff we basically never stumble on while browsing. Without algos here, it will never be forced on us.

     I can easily see posts critical of Israel called antisemitic.

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     jonw (jonw@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 26-Feb-2026 00:07:36 JST jonw

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     @evan I know. These ideas always sound perfectly reasonable.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 26-Feb-2026 00:12:07 JST Evan Prodromou

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     IFTAS is Federated Trust And Safety. It is a non-profit dedicated to improving user safety in the Fediverse and supporting the work of Fediverse moderators. The "I" doesn't seem to stand for anything!

     https://about.iftas.org/

     DNI is the "do not interact" blocklist maintained by IFTAS. It's a "worst of the worst" list that prevents interaction with, among other things, dedicated instances for racist, transphobic and homophobic trolls.

     https://about.iftas.org/library/iftas-dni-list/