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@shanie No blog, since there are degrees of implementation which will vary widely based on each server's infrastructure, but Mastodon's internal moderation tools can do much of the blocking at the network layer. Each server would independently need to determine what steps to take.
N.B. Current practice for this server's moderation is to, upon discovery, consider use of large language models (LLMs) as presumptive network abuse, absent other mitigating evidence. We encourage everyone to report such usage accordingly and encourage other server operators to take a similar view. (2/2)
👀 FYI: Effective this month, our IP blocks for Anthropic & OpenAI network spaces have been refreshed and updated to minimize those organisations' abilities to interact with content posted here. Please continue to report any cases of susptected network abuse for review and action. (1/2)
Emelia 👸🏻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/
Jan Lehnardt 
@seldo yeah, but also folks feel their consent violated if their posts are going into a place they don’t want them to.
I understand that there is no way to prevent this, but that doesn’t mean these people’s feelings are invalid.
I am fine with my posts being in someone’s search index, but I want absolutely nothing to do with LLM vendors that will do god knows what with my writing.
We're sorry you took offense to others' reports about the content posted. As stated in the standardized text of the notification sent, "No action is being taken against your account at this time. This is only a courtesy notification that concern was expressed about your post(s)."
Whenever possible, we try to pass that anonymous feedback along.
Best wishes in the future!
@strk You will need to direct any specific questions about Mastodon's implementation of ActivityPub to their development team, but in general, user accounts won't be able to view any data from a remote account if there is a block by the target user.
@strk Unfortunately it's not technially possible for us to know or answer that, as blocks happen on the receiving server. Sorry!
@strk Sorry, we can't reproduce that error. The post you mentioned by @soilseacht is loading fine for our accounts.