jwzFeb 15, 2023
@[email protected] @timbray I gave up on crowdsourced blacklists long ago. My experience, in the context of email spam, is that eventually the admin has a tantrum and ends up blocking all of AWS or some shit.
Show threadTim BrayFeb 15, 2023

@jwz @lwndow

Hmm interesting. Given the structure of the Fediverse, with thousands of instances, and the fact that brand-new troll instances pop up regularly, it'd be nice to have some sort of shared-block capability.

Show threadjwzFeb 15, 2023
@timbray @[email protected] Sure, and it's probably necessary to try... but there seems to be something about operating a blocklist that eventually makes the operator lose their damn mind and double down on some scorched-earth change that, while probably "in accordance with policy", also ends up just breaking everything for everybody.
Show threadCharlie StrossFeb 15, 2023
@jwz @timbray @lwndow I miss slrn's scoring/regexp killfiles. I know we can do better with Bayesian filtering and maybe soon GANs (not as AI to generate text but as AI to spot trolls/hate speech?) but I still miss some of the old usenet affordances.
Show threadCarlRJFeb 15, 2023
@cstross @jwz @timbray @lwndow was more of a trn user, if I remember correctly, but… Mastodon is the most Usenet-y feeling forum I’ve seen in a while. And I wouldn’t really want a command-line curses-based Mastodon reader, but I can definitely see the usefulness of bringing some of the other techniques and ideas from the old readers into the Mastodon realm.
Show threadThe Doctor
@carlrj @cstross @jwz @timbray A tin-like client would be awesome. I'd even pay for it.
Feb 15, 2023 at 11:22pmWeb