The ActivityPub Trust and Safety Task Force is looking for a new co-lead with experience in Trust & Safety and moderation.

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Volunteers for new task force co-lead · Issue #135 · swicg/activitypub-trust-and-safety

We're currently down to just one task force lead (Emelia), and consequently if she's not available, meetings don't happen. This isn't great for group cadence, and we're searching for someone to ste...

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RE: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/116767878695105626

as i've written elsewhere, i've stopped recommending people who are likely targets for harassment join here, and stopped inviting them, precisely because of this opening for abuse

i would LOOOVE to be able to go back to inviting people to Mastodon again 💚 ❤️

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(sorry, didn't link earlier, was actually away from screens, gasp)

Plenty of people don't have a problem with harassment on Mastodon but this does not mean that harassment on Mastodon isn't a massive, massive issue. I've been thinking about this more and more, the longer I'm here (Oct 22)

Sincere thanks as always to everyone who helps keep others safe here and also everyone who thinks on the hard problems 💚

https://openjournals.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/JoCI/article/view/6644

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