Notices by Emelia 👸🏻 (thisismissem@hachyderm.io), page 2

@hrefna @DenialShown will be interesting to see what the ethics committee says about this

@molly0xfff do we even want to know what "fair democracy" is? It doesn't sound good as a company.

@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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