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Drac@Dracula115 Thaaat's interesting.
I think it's because the server I'm quoting appears to have been suspended from Mastodon Social, but you imagine the placeholder would say something about that instead of just pending.
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賢進ジェンナ@lety @Dracula115 This week I am starting a replacement for the Mastodon client app/website that is still functionally a Mastodon app, but will be built around the idea of fully open federation using methods other than bans and fedi-blocking to handle censorship, because this is something I am honestly sick and tired of.
@Dracula115 @lety We all hear people say "Reach out to your admins" & all of those other things to block/approve content, but they are all volunteers with other jobs that already have a lot on their plates. Additionally, because of the idiotic & lazy nature of blocklists(a substitute for actually coming up with an intelligent solution to the problem / poisoning the minds of a moderation team at great expense), every block / add has cascading effects that often result in unintended consequences.
@lety @Dracula115 This has turned into a thread...whoops.
There've apparently been efforts to try & address this using Mastodon's existing tools, / by extending Mastodon, from what I've been told, but everything I have heard about doesn't address the fact that the Mastodon client & federated network don't've the structural underpinnings to support these efforts effectively, so the only thing, I think, is to build something independent of the network that distributes power to the people (3/ )
@Dracula115 @lety ...allowing moderation to become a grassroots, community focused thing that is independent of any particular instance and share the effort of moderation across the entire community. @apps has indicated that they hope to solve the same problem by giving every user their own self-contained instance with their app/account, but that also means the individual assigned the weeknesses & burdens of being an instance admin with regard to block/ban&federate discussions. (4/ )
@apps @lety @Dracula115 Ideally, this will create an environment where a) the app will've a default moderation level(that you can opt out of), b) communities will have organic moderation levels(instance independent w/ the effort distributed), c) Masto-devs can do what they do best, / d) individual users can put in as much, / as little, effort as they like to remain safe while still avoiding being silo'd & protecting their privacy & liberté. (5/5)
@kenjen Sounds fun! Good luck with that!!!