Emelia 👸🏻2d ago

Friendly reminder: last year I built FediMod FIRES, a protocol and reference server implementation for sharing moderation data.

I haven't yet been able to get anyone to adopt it or even signal intent to adopt. But regularly I see people complaining about the lack of data sharing when it comes to moderation, especially for combating spam, scams, and harassment. The tool is there, please use it!

Whilst I'm not actively working on FediMod FIRES this quarter, I did apply in November for a grant to continue that work, and last I heard a few weeks ago is that the grant made it to the next stage, so I may have some money again to fund development.

It's not 1.0.0 yet, because I decided it needed more work for me to be happy to call it that, but it is usable!

Installation is also super simple for data producers, literally two commands on debian or ubuntu boxes.

Learn more: https://fires.fedimod.org/manuals/reference-server/

#moderation #fediblock #administration

FIRES Reference Server | FediMod FIRES

Fediverse moderation Intelligence Replication Endpoint Server

FediMod FIRES
Show threadAndrew Furrow

@thisismissem can I theoretically use this as a housekeeping tool for blocking all ActivityPub nodes of a certain type, e.g., Lemmy, Piefed, Gotosocial, or is there an easier way to do that? How about blocking all users with blank pfp?

Thanks

Mar 26 at 2:15pmWeb
Show threadEmelia 👸🏻1d ago

@andrew it's not designed for that.

For automatically moderating profiles with no avatar, it'd be as your server learns about them, which could be done using a rails script for mastodon.

Show threadAndrew Furrow1d ago
@thisismissem thanks!