Notices by Emelia 👸🏻 (thisismissem@hachyderm.io)

@mattly @graue "this has been rebased for nearly 2.6 years, that's kinda absurd" says it all really. I hope things improve soon, I really do.

@mattly @jenniferplusplus something that might interest you, which is a recent change I'm working on for Mastodon is expanding the moderation notes capabilities to more places. So, for starters, Instances: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/31529

But also there is Appeals and maybe blocked email domains, hashtags, and IP rules. All tbd though.

@mekkaokereke I think the only "hard" one on that list for me, that I don't have a good answer for is “Composable moderation” — the only way this can work is through data sharing with third-parties, which can get sketchy without proper DPAs in place.

@hrefna on a possibly related note: is JSON-LD or RDF actually good for data sovereignty? (My gut feeling after 4 years is "no")

@mekkaokereke @Badgardener right now it's mostly having the time to both build, review and ship the features.

As mentioned in another thread I've been working on a bunch of these onboarding and moderation features we'll need in the coming months separately, along with others.

@mekkaokereke @Badgardener we should refuse to accept that.

But the reality right now is projects are underfunded. I've heard of at least a few that may need to shutdown within the next 6-12 months unless they can attract funding.

For 5 engineers in Europe, you're looking at a burn rate of at least €30,000 a month (that's €60-72k salaries), then there's operating expenses, taxes, server/infrastructure costs on top.

@mekkaokereke yeah, we're constantly fighting the fact that a lot of the trust & safety aspects in both Mastodon and ActivityPub in general were left languishing for so long.

Hopefully the new ActivityPub Trust & Safety Taskforce can make some forward improvements here through reports & recommendations.

Though funding for work is definitely also a factor here, it's obviously possible to do more faster with a budget of $30+ Million vs $600k/year

@hrefna @polotek @renchap definitely agree on that point.

@inthehands @dgoldsmith yeah, I think I watched that, which is where I learned about it, iirc.

@mattly I'd be inclined to drop the "augment human intelligence" part from the name of the offering. Perhaps "interaction design enhanced by data science"?

@mattly how do you know the corn isn't listening?

(to make this spookier I've seen studies showing that plants respond to different music)

@andypiper @liaizon @hongminhee the version of JSON-LD Signatures that mastodon supports is old, basically they implemented it, then the spec completely changed.

That's why stuff doesn't look right.

The question is then: how do you migrate forwards without breaking compatibility with existing deployments. That's gonna need time & money thrown at the problem to solve.

@dansup @pixelfed @joe

If you've not considered this you might want to require a token to access the setup page (iirc wordpress now needs such) because fresh installs were getting hijacked by bots

Am wondering if it'd make sense to have a dedicated Reply activity, such that a reply becomes Reply(Note) instead of Create(Note)

Where the Reply activity has the target & is sent to that server only, before being forwarded?

Would this make the protocol clearer for implementers?

#activitypub #ActivityStreams2

There was a big decision at the SWICG meeting today to start a Moderation, Trust & Safety Task Force that aims to write a report to improve those aspects of the protocol.

I've volunteered to lead that task force.

#SWICG #ActivityPub

@julian @kristinHenry @hipsterelectron @seachanger @Gargron I've actually like half a dozen pull requests open all attempting to improve the moderation tools (fixing gaps, stuff that's confusing, improving things, etc)

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pulls/ThisIsMissEm

I'm hoping the team can start reviewing them soon, the one Julian linked to was for report forwarding by moderators, which still has a bunch left to do, but is making progress

Here's a rough draft of how I think I report could look in mastodon with the changes I'm working on relating to forwarding reports to other servers:

Here I've reported from my dev instance hachyderm.wtf, who replied to hachyderm.io, but I only chose to forward to hachyderm.wtf

This allows for the moderator on my dev instance to then decide to forward it to hachyderm.io (there'll be a separate screen for that)

Gives a bit more clarity as to where the report has gone.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/31706#issuecomment-2327497442

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@eibhear @anarchic_teapot @gutocarvalho

Your issue isn't with Brazil, STF, or anything, it's with Musk throwing someone who agreed to work with him in good faith under the bus.

Musk knew refusing to comply would mean legal liability for that person, and chose not to comply.

@eibhear @anarchic_teapot @gutocarvalho

If you are the Managing Director of Twitter GmbH (Germany), and your parent company Twitter, LLC, doesn't allow you to follow german laws, and fines are levied against Twitter GmbH and neither Twitter GmbH nor Twitter LLC can or will pay those fines, then yes, there can be action taken against the Managing Director.

That is, companies offer some liability protection in cases of bankruptcy and such, but not in refusal to follow the law.