If you are on #AusDotSocial #mastodon, please consider donating, no matter how little, and do your bit to support the dis-enshifitication of social media.
As a token of thanks for our volunterer #Admins and #Moderators
Thanks @shlee
Ps. I donate when I can.
https://aus.social/@shlee/115993400215201838
Being against a porn star being exploited is too unpopular an opinion for “unpopular opinion”
Twitch Introduces New Lead Moderator Role to Help Streamers Manage Growing Communities
https://www.shanethegamer.com/esports-news/twitch-lead-moderator-role-introduced/
#twitch #twitchnews #moderators #streamers #tech #technews #twitchmods #twitchmodsnews #communities #leadmoderator #moderator #moderatornews
The #Fediverse is such a wonderful place, but it's sad to hear it's really under threat, as #moderators face #burnout
"Decentralised platforms pride themselves on being community-led and member-directed. But community care requires people. And right now, those people are overwhelmed.
"If we want the social web to remain open, resilient, and safe for marginalised users, we need to support the humans at its core."
Great work all of you & #IFTAS thank you
The 2025 Social Web Trust & Safety Needs Assessment Report is now available.
Volunteer moderators are burning out. Spam is rising. Legal threats are growing.
The 2025 Report reveals where things stand, and what must change.
Read it now: https://about.iftas.org/2026/01/08/the-2025-social-web-trust-safety-report-is-here/
#TrustAndSafety #Moderation #FediAdmin #MastoAdmin #Moderators #FediMods #MastoMods
[Edited for typos : EFF]
The EFF is, thankfully, taking umbrage at Australia’s #AgeVerification legislation which came into force yesterday, and rightly so. However, with statements such as:
“If legislators want to meaningfully improve online safety, they should pass a strong, comprehensive federal privacy law instead of building new systems of surveillance, censorship, and exclusion.“
read more:
It’s missing the mark, not really providing a solution to the targeted problem, and may just cloud the issue (confusing parents/guardians mainly) while giving our polies a free pass. That’s just my opinion of course. But if you really wanted to tackle on-line bullying and curtail the hate, the racism, the disinformation, misinformation, and general toxicity that is prevalent on #TechBros platforms, you’d need to do more than just reform and strengthen #PrivacyLaws. Digital media is just like radio/TV/paper media with more functionality and reach which are #regulated worldwide (more or less depending on country of publication/broadcast). Hence, to hit the mark, this new govt legislation ought to have been a set of #Regulations imposed on digital media (of every kind) with penalties for failure to comply to have any meaningful benefits to society and its younger people.
Of course, more regulations is not what the EFF stands for, so no surprises there. Saying that, I do believe that the EFF does important work and is to be commended for that.
There are alternatives to BigTech platforms which are #safer more #inclusive already deployed on the #internet. And if our govt was truly looking after the health of our kids, then govt departments who have the #DutyOfCare to keep our kids safe could #Fund #instances of #Mastodon on the #Fediverse for #kids run by kids with oversight by health professionals as #Moderators — a glaringly obvious solution that no one is talking about (outside the fediverse that is).
/end_rant/
#AusPol #InternetAccess #SocialMedia #OnLineBullying #Doxing #Grooming #EatTheRich #Antifa #Radicalisation
Age verification laws are proliferating fast across the United States and around the world, creating a dangerous and confusing tangle of rules about what we’re all allowed to see and do online. That's why today, we're launching EFF.org/Age, a one-stop shop for users seeking to understand what these laws actually do, what’s at stake, why EFF opposes all forms of age verification, how to protect yourself, and how to join the fight for a free, open, private, and yes—safe—internet.
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