Illegal in one country may not be in another. Like in Brazil, to my knowledge there is not rules against console mods and game dumping, but in Japan console mods are illegal and in the USA dumping Nintendo cartridges. Furthermore, in the Brazilian constitution, one of the opening statements is that "you shall not do or cease to do anything if not in virtue of law".

So in this example, if 3 instances are tied by such an external organization, one for each country, which will be breaking their local laws to allow or not discussion on modding and dumping?

And on judges being voted out, Brazil also works as an example: Ill-intended judges just need to sit quietly enough for long enough until they have a majority, and then they can rule as they please.

@futzle
This broke my brain a little bit

This is especially problematic as media […] gets duplicated to every receiving instance.

I’m not sure this is actually the case. The posts certainly do get duplicated to every instance, of course, but the media contained in them are always hosted by the originating instance, as far as I can tell. So once it is deleted from there, no one can access it anymore.

I think it’s an interesting idea though. Since you mentioned votes by members of the individual instances, I wonder how you would handle the different sizes of instances. I’m the only user of my instance, for example. I probably wouldn’t be able to be judge then, right?

@aral @davidgerard This Milady thing is quite influential in the crapto space. I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re involved with The Com.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN-SCgY8TCs

I still want a "Black Mesa before Resonance Cascade" series.

@aral @Npars01 @noelreports Because I support Israel, LOL!
Because I support decolonisation.

Foolproof >30 year old test

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This Tuesday has a lot of Monday vibes, if I’m to be perfectly honest

A lot of corporate software development has turned out to be an example of Graeber's "bullshit job". The work consists of shuffling pucks for a business hierarchy. Value comes from oligopolies, abusive business models, and strip-mining old innovations. Design exists to squeeze the customer. Next to none of the outcomes really matter. Few projects ship and those that do make the world a worse place

Makes sense that such a bullshit job would be perfectly automated by an LLM bullshit generator

@mensrea ooooh that’s unfortunate ☹️ let’s see how it goes…

@ai6yr
Yeah, Catan's a good one. Simple enough to learn it quickly and easy to keep track of through conversations, distractions, and interruptions. But also engaging and a reasonable length.

As the Fediverse grows, the amount and frequency of harmful spam also increases. The feudalistic structure of the network creates notable moderation overhead as every instance admin has to ban offending remote accounts and remove their content themselves, if the originating instance does not act quick enough or such delete actions are not federated properly.
An example (and my motivation for this post) are reports from the last days about accounts which post CSAM content. This is especially problematic, as media content gets duplicated to every receiving instance.

The following idea came to my mind: A software which sits on top of Activity Pub and creates a kind of court. Instances of this software are independent courts. All users can elect admins / mods of their home instance as judge. Everyone can post a case via normal Fedi posts to the court and the elected judges give a verdict via majority vote (votes are also normal Fedi comments with special formatted content). Once a case has a verdict, all instances should immediately apply the decided action against the offending content / account. This can be done via a bot which is set as an instance moderator and follows the published verdicts of a court instance the local admin trusts.

This way swift action can be applied through all instances which follow the court at once. By having periodic elections it is kept democratic.

And the task of the court is to defend universal rules all following instances agree on. Not to handle politics between instances.

What are you thoughts on this matter? Or do other approaches to solve this issue already exist?