Some highlights from first 2 weeks of our Online Trust & Safety J-term course at Middlebury College:
- Students voted 9-0: keep Section 230.
- Students voted 2-7 against: platforms should label all "likely manipulated media" (per Meta Oversight Board case 2025-019-FB-UA - https://www.oversightboard.com/decision/fb-bu05syro/&sa=D&source=docs&ust=1768934921213728&usg=AOvVaw0dPHmIYIusg4FZnrDgWsO0)
- All students but 1 were fired from their first Moderator Mayhem jobs! https://moderatormayhem.engine.is/ - they really internalized Masnick's Impossibility Theorem. @mmasnick.bsky.social

I journaled a bit about experimenting with the current state of interoperability on the Fediverse: https://www.abekatz.com/baby-steps-in-the-fediverse

Does this appear on my Pixelfed feed? @[email protected]

Inspired by @Casey great coverage of Claude and Claude Code, and this week's story with @pj and @kevin about successes in the fediverse, I'm diving in more: I just did some account exporting and importing between Threads, Bsky (via bridgy fed), and Mastodon with some csv parsing/regex help from Claude. I'm now successfully seeing Threads and Bsky posts here on Mastodon from (many of the) accounts I've followed on those services.

I wrote some thoughts about the small elegance of blocking people on social media (it's the new hotness, did you hear?) https://integrityinstitute.org/blog/the-art-of-the-block

Now that Meta is implementing ActivityPub, I’m keen on fully moving to Mastodon and following Threads users here. But how do I do that? When I search for a threads username @ threads.net I get no results.

Is there a way to somehow collapse a “many-tooted” thread of longform writing on Mastodon? For instance: I’m a fan of @pluralistic’s writing, and usually read it in my email inbox. When it appears in thread format in my Mastodon feed, it’s a lot of scrolling to pass it by. I’m on the Mastodon iOS app.