Micah LeeJul 25, 2023
This is bad. Mastodon instances need tooling to automatically detect and ban abuse (or flag for manual review), and to automatically defederate from instances that don’t ban abuse https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/24/twitter-rival-mastodon-rife-with-child-abuse-material-study-finds/
Twitter rival Mastodon rife with child-abuse material, study finds

The report raises safety questions about alternative social media sites.

The Washington Post
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@micahflee Why isn't this scoop pay-walled? Also, have the researcher proposed moderation techniques or tools?
Aug 10, 2023 at 7:37pmWeb