@blaine By the way, don't get me wrong. The intent is good, but I'm not sure these organisations can be shielded from abuse, influence, and money. Be it coop, grassroots, NGO, NPO, or not.

Sooner or later, we might have one, two, or three, ending up again with a “centralised” or “controlled” system, the very thing many of us left behind.

Nothing wrong with the idea, it's the implementation, the independence, and values, that's worrying.

@ross @blaine In #Misskey and forks, users can choose to mute instances, threads, and by words; other than the usual mute and block by user/account.

If IIRC, Hubzilla also have similar features for the users, and more (like who can comment(?)) (I have to re-check these).

The instance admin then only have to use the instance mute/ban hammer, against accounts and instances, when actually needed.

@Robotbeat

If ordinary users are going to be “rated” by various organisations and instance moderators, then there should also be “reputation scores” for those organisations and instance moderators (and their instance itself).

It should go both ways.

Is the server, and/or organisation, abiding by The Santa Clara Principles or not?

Users can then be more informed which server they want to join. Same with admins trusting third-party “signals” from these organisations.

@blaine

@autiomaa It sounds to me as the digital version of the National Social Credit System.

@blaine