The Nexus of Privacy

Compare and contrast: Fediseer, FIRES, and The Bad Space

https://privacy.thenexus.today/fediseer-fires-and-the-bad-space/

The Bad Space is only one of the projects exploring different ways of moving beyond the fediverse's current reliance on instance-level blocking and blocklists. It's especially interesting to compare and contrast The Bad Space with two somewhat-similar projects:

- Fediseer is another instance catalog, including endorsements as well as negative judgments about instances.

- FIRES (an acronym for Fediverse Intelligence Recommendations & Replication Endpoint Server) is infrastructure for moderation advisories and recommendations.

Many thanks to @thisismissem and @Db0 for feedback on earlier versions of this post!

(Part 4 of "Golden opportunities for the fediverse – and whatever comes next")

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Compare and contrast: Fediseer, FIRES, and The Bad Space

Part 4 of "Golden opportunities for the fediverse – and whatever comes next"

The Nexus Of Privacy
Dec 19, 2023 at 6:08amWeb
Show threaddb0Dec 19, 2023
@thenexusofprivacy @[email protected] Good stuff. Only thing I would disagree is that the fediseer could offer less value to marginalized people. Maybe currently that is so, but if say, seirdy.one were to join and add their censures, that "lacking value" will be covered. Likewise is mastodon.art were to join and add their censures, that would be covered as well. My point here is that it's not a fundamental problem of the Fediseer as a platform.
Show threadophiocephalic 🐍Dec 19, 2023
@db0 @thenexusofprivacy @[email protected]
I've previously argued that some of the early issues with Fediseer are simply a result of the fact that there are a limited number of people contributing to it, so their contributions are overweighted. But of course, as the essay mentions, it still depends on exactly *who* shows up to contribute
Show threaddb0Dec 19, 2023
@ophiocephalic @thenexusofprivacy @[email protected] Even then, it ultimately doesn't matter. You always choose who you trust when you retrieve censures. Even if there's 100 "freeze peach" instances and 10 anti-bigotry ones, you get the same protection TBS would offer by referencing the latter 10.
Show threadophiocephalic 🐍Dec 19, 2023
@db0 @thenexusofprivacy @[email protected]
Yes. And better still would be 500 "good-fedi" contributors, so that those first 10 don't have a disproportionate influence
Show threaddb0Dec 19, 2023
@ophiocephalic @thenexusofprivacy @[email protected] Yes. This is the possibility that Fediseer offers by design. I've build it and I'm hoping they will come :)