Someone should set up a third-party tool that mastodon/fediverse users can report abuse to. It should be staffed by people who are skilled at evaluating this stuff and who are paid to do it.
Recommendations/instructions to block instances/individuals could then be sent out to instance admins or even individual users (in an automated way), either as a collective or by subscription.
Or, rather, is anyone doing this already? #federatemoderation
@blaine The instinct the centralize is common but I find it surprising from you.
Some sort of web-of-trust distributed thing is what the infrastructure needs. I'll trust instance B as much as my trust in A times my trust in it's trust.
Coz the thing is, the "third-party".. "users can report abuse to" will immediately become corrupted.
Especially since they will need to be funded.
You can have a marketplace of censors, but that will be hard to stop free-riding, I can just copy the blocklist.
I think it would have to be some kind of delegated trust, with a network of weights between all the nodes more than some overseer service, even a marketplace of them.
@blaine Yeah, a moment's further thought and I realized you probably meant a standard for many of them to operate in, that marketplace of censors.
Standards for passing around blocklists sound good, and then probably you'll apply your local weighting to them I guess, especially if they come with error-bars and you have a trust metric on their source already.
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