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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mastodon.social/users/ExecGoofy/statuses/113103671264666415">Exec. Goofy (execgoofy@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 09-Sep-2024 04:52:18 JST</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/@ExecGoofy" title="execgoofy@mastodon.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/171825-48-20230913090358.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Exec. Goofy" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Exec. Goofy</a></section><article><p>The event that played out yesterday in the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FediBlock" rel="tag">#FediBlock</a> tag is illustrative of why instance admins generally find the tag useless. What was conceived as a tag to highlight extremely blatant dangers has devolved into personal feuds and grievances, watering down the entire project.</p><p>For more discussion, see this excerpt from "Findings Report: Governance on Fediverse Microblogging Servers" (<a href="https://fediverse-governance.github.io/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://fediverse-governance.github.io/</a>)</p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/3635009#notice-7125122">In conversation</a><time datetime="2024-09-09T04:52:18+09:00" title="Monday, 09-Sep-2024 04:52:18 JST">about 8 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@ExecGoofy/113103671264666415" rel="external" title="Sent from mastodon.social via ActivityPub">mastodon.social</a></span></span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@ExecGoofy/113103671264666415">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: raw.githubusercontent.com</div><h5><a href="https://fediverse-governance.github.io/">Findings Report: Governance on Fediverse Microblogging Servers</a></h5><div> from <span>Darius Kazemi</span></div></header><div>Research report on Fediverse microblogging server governance: risks and mitigations, moderation, server leadership, federated diplomacy, and governance tooling.</div><footer></footer></article></li><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/3141618">One admin was supportive of #FediBlock in its early days,but what I found is after years of watching #FediBlock is that the signal-to-noise ratio is extremely low. It is almost impossible [to determine if a recommendation is justified]. I’ve repeatedly spent like a dozen hours tracing through the partial view of replies because everybody’s blocking each other. Everybody’s deleting posts, 90% of the discussion is [vague references], there are no links, and I’m trying to get to the ground truth, and finally I find the thing. And it’s like, oh, this is a relatively mild, friendly article. It doesn’t sound at all like the #FediBlock discussion. And so it was very strange to see that as the defederation criterion.So we essentially don’t respond to random posts calling for proactive blocks unless it’s something really obvious like CSAM or hate domains. And those are easy criteria to act on. And even then, we get so little harassment after we blocked the big ones, which happened in the first few months.</a></label><br><a href="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/103/661/654/470/170/original/8d84bbddd1539371.png" rel="external">https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/103/661/654/470/170/original/8d84bbddd1539371.png</a></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Exec. Goofy (execgoofy@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 09-Sep-2024 04:52:18 JST Exec. Goofy
The event that played out yesterday in the #FediBlock tag is illustrative of why instance admins generally find the tag useless. What was conceived as a tag to highlight extremely blatant dangers has devolved into personal feuds and grievances, watering down the entire project.
For more discussion, see this excerpt from "Findings Report: Governance on Fediverse Microblogging Servers" (https://fediverse-governance.github.io/)
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2. One admin was supportive of #FediBlock in its early days, but what I found is after years of watching #FediBlock is that the signal-to-noise ratio is extremely low. It is almost impossible [to determine if a recommendation is justified]. I’ve repeatedly spent like a dozen hours tracing through the partial view of replies because everybody’s blocking each other. Everybody’s deleting posts, 90% of the discussion is [vague references], there are no links, and I’m trying to get to the ground truth, and finally I find the thing. And it’s like, oh, this is a relatively mild, friendly article. It doesn’t sound at all like the #FediBlock discussion. And so it was very strange to see that as the defederation criterion. So we essentially don’t respond to random posts calling for proactive blocks unless it’s something really obvious like CSAM or hate domains. And those are easy criteria to act on. And even then, we get so little harassment after we blocked the big ones, which happened in the first few months.
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