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Jupiter Rowland Jun 25, 2025

@Tim Chambers @Alexia ΘΔ Of course, what makes a server "trusted" would have to be different from server software to server software.

For example, the criteria might include minimum moderation standards as well as a guaranteed minimum timespan between a shutdown announcement and the ensuing shutdown. But what fits Mastodon will not necessarily fit our three "nomadic" server applications. They largely put moderation into the hands of the users, appropriate tools for moderating their own streams included. And e.g. three months of warning ahead before a server goes offline are overkill for software that a) allows you to move your whole channel to another server at the drop of a hat and b) might not even make moving necessary if you've already cloned your channel.

Granted, the part with the clones currently only matters on Hubzilla. (streams) has only got two public servers with open registration as far as I know, and I don't know of Forte has any at all. So you've only got so many places, if any, to clone your channel to.

Still, if a server application is rather obscure, it only has very few servers, and not a single one of them actually counts as a "flagship" or "lighthouse" server, the whole application would remain absent from this system. This easily applies to (streams), not to mention Forte.

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Menel

Feb 21, 2025

/me approaching from a dark corner :
shhhh, wanna selfhost some #snac?

#selfmoderation
#antifa

stop genocide punch nazis Feb 20, 2024

First time I got a remote report about a kamu.social post.

Two of my own posts got reported for "antisemitism - lizard people".

These:

- https://kamu.social/@nikodemus/111915416912545924

- https://kamu.social/@nikodemus/111915475274191030

Now, I'm not going to limit or suspend my own account, but I wanted to look at this as if it was someone else who was reported.

#moderation #selfModeration

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don't be an evil dick 🌈 (@[email protected])

We haz a new president here in #Finland. I think we got the fourth-best candidate, unfortunately. Now admittedly, he's infinitely better than the Lizard Nazi Gollum, the Glory-to-God-Sinners-Will-Burn Lizard, or the any of the Rich Lizard Dudes. So... yippii, I guess? Meh. I'd rather we picked one of two clearly-non-lizard-people on the ballot, or the maybe-not-a-lizard-person who has demonstrated they have a moral spine. EDIT: TIL lizard people are an antisemitic dogwhistle. I apologize.

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Jupiter Rowland Feb 19, 2024

Fediverse spam doesn't work as easily here on Hubzilla.

Spammers can try to mention-spam me all they want. I won't even notice. If someone whom I don't follow mentions me outside any thread I follow, I'm neither notified, nor do I receive the mention in my channel stream (= local timeline). Unlike on Mastodon. That is, I could turn this behaviour on on Hubzilla if I wanted to, but it's off by default.

If you want to spam my channel stream, the following criteria have to be met:

I must be following you. Whether or not I do is entirely my decision.
I must have allowed you to send messages to my channel stream. Again, that's my decision. And I don't unless I explicitly want to. Yes, Hubzilla has such a permission setting. Amongst many others.
I must not have you on ignore (which keeps me from seeing your stuff, and you won't notice).
I must not have you on block (which keeps you from sending me stuff in the first place, but you may notice).
I must not have you on Superblock which wipes you out of existence entirely from my channel's perspective.

Spamming a thread that started on Hubzilla can be prevented by the thread starter. On Hubzilla, the thread starter owns the whole thread, all comments included. If you comment on this post, it's still me who's the owner of your comment within my thread. And I can turn off comments for either specific comments or for the post itself and thereby the whole thread.

And yes, this keeps even Mastodon users from commenting. It may not keep them from sending a post in reply. But that post will not appear in the thread at least for anyone using a project that understands Hubzilla's one-post-many-comments conversation model, myself included.

If bad came to worse, I could even only allow certain users to comment on my posts in the first place. But that'd be overkill.

Oh, and by the way, even if a thread was started by someone else and appears in my channel stream, I can turn off comments for myself, but otherwise the same way that I can turn them off for my own threads. Yes, even if the thread was started on Mastodon.

If it's one bad actor or a few spamming streams and threads: Again, there's Superblock which works regardless of whether I'm connected to someone.

And if bad really came to worse, my last resort would be to pull up the drawbridge and turn ActivityPub off entirely for as long as needed. Then nothing would even be able to come in, not from Mastodon, not from Misskey, not from anything else that uses ActivityPub to communicate with Hubzilla.

Poor Mastodon users who only have "mute", "block" and "hope for mods to step in" at their disposal.

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