daniel:// stenberg://RE: https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/116402716327956884
"Mastodon has been awarded a €614k service agreement by the Sovereign Tech Fund"
Cassandrich@bagder Unfortunately it looks like at least part of this is to be spent on surveillance infrastructure...
Cassidy James 
@dalias @bagder automated content detection at the Mastodon server level is an extremely basic trust and safety feature that has been sorely missing. It’s the tooling that lets a server admin, say, “actually people can’t use our site to host and distribute known child sexual abuse materials, and we aren’t forcing volunteer moderators to look at child sexual abuse materials all day!”
I encourage you to read about hash mapping, as that is the sort of detection we’re talking about.
@dalias @bagder it’s on the same level as a CDN: yes, technically a CDN can see all your data! Which is why you, as a user, choose to trust your server admin and the infrastructure (like CDNs and T&S tooling) that they use. If you don’t trust your server admin or their infrastructure choices, then you can use a different server; that’s kind of a super power of the fediverse.
@dalias @bagder And just like a CDN, every Mastodon server re-deploying and re-hosting all of the load for all media on the network is probably not the smartest move resource-wise, especially as running a Mastodon server is already difficult and expensive at scale. So, yes, like the plans to make media handling shareable between instances, there is a plan to make T&S tooling sharable between instances.