Full purges on PF/Pylova are a click of a checkbox when we ban an account.

Appreciate the feedback 😊

The difference between blocking and purging is that a blocked account is still residing on the instance (even more so for user blocks instead of admin blocks). As the data is still there, it opens possibility for legal trouble. Full purges by instance moderation action is different.

The scope of my proposal is not to help curate and filtering content for instances, but to enable widespread coordinated action against content which was already created and is harmful without any room for interpretation.

Makes sense. I suppose my described lists could also be made into purge lists.

That is a whole other issue. Scrapers and request spammers, not content spamming accounts, can be combated with already existing technology at the reverse proxy server. There are big crowdsourced IP banlists which are continuously updated.

Not my knowledge base, so good to know that already exists.

This would be the easiest solution. But I think it will lead away from individualism of instances, as all decisions are automatically applied, instead of only a manually reviewed subset.

Your idea with applying the mod action after a threshold of other instances did it too is something to consider. It will keep individualism but also creates “avalanches” once enough instances in the network agreed on a decision, which might be even better for propagating swift action against general harmful content.

Definitely a balance needs to be struck, between quick action and preventing abuse.

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As with anything it depends on who is in control of the moderation or the ones doing the moderation.

And part of it sounds like a centralized layer on top of federation that would just be the antithesis of what the purpose of federation is.

I know you are thinking of csam specifically but as described could end up giving certain mods and instances an essential veto.

Based on certain instances cough lemmy.world and piefed.social I see that going extremely poorly

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Ohh, I didn't know about that. Would you share the address?

Also, is there some general onboarding material for new instance admins which is software-unspecific?

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I'm surprised that so many people don't know this.

I’m not a huge fan of a software solution to this, we already have a large group chat open for instance operators to share and discuss details of user bans, spam, etc. This respects each instances ‘culture’ while also facilitating communication and dialogue around potential issues.

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@davidgerard The don't ask questions guys are going to have to ask questions and accept responsibility now. Should be interesting; I expect no one expected the senior scapegoat to actually be the fall guy.

cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/37870004

reddit got bad because spez (the reddit admin) restricted API access to the platform for third-party apps, such that people would be forced to use the official app or web UI, both of which display advertisement and collect user data (e.g. scroll behavior).

the reason why this happened is because reddit is a for-profit company and tries to extract money out of the userbase, at the expense of the users.

another example of a bad decision that reddit made was to push a lot of ragebait (“Am I The Asshole?”) because company shareholders want to see “engagement numbers” go up, and if somebody writes an angry reply to a post, that’s “engagement”. but it makes you angry at the stupidity of the “Asshole”, so it makes your day worse. that is another example how reddit makes money at the expense of the users.

size (number of monthly active users) is not what made reddit bad. commercialization is.

we should probably get rid of the “don’t make lemmy grow, it will ruin the platform if we grow” idea.

shout out to the lemmy developers for not making us be stuck on the other site

shout out to mastodon devs for making us have a better life than on Twitter

shout out to the pixelfed devs for allowing a actual photography platform to exist

shout out to the peertube devs for helping us not be stuck on youtube until the end of time

ETA: Shout out to the server operators who make the stuff be done

@The_Universality That's a fair point! Thanks for the suggestion!