this might be the first rpgmaker game that makes my list

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?

Update:
From this came the idea that instances can follow mod actions of other instances and apply them if x% of other instances did the same.

I think this is an interesting approach which might be better than my proposal. So I would like to hear your thoughts about this too.

anyway, whenever someone says something like "LLMs have finally made programming accessible to normal people!" I try to remember that the Silicon And Fossil Fuel Pyramid Scheme Industry has spent literally hundreds billions of dollars in an effort to convince you that computers were *already difficult to use* (a grift that computer programmers are largely in on!) and to politicize LLMs as being "easy to use" in contrast

@chergert that totally looks like a music arrangement in a daw from the small thumbnail ;)

@tbernard unironically, yes

and the worst part? people are still giving it "the benefit of the doubt" and "doubting this is some sort of dogwhistle" in _some_ communities

guy who goes to a well to throw himself in but finds out that the well has magical water in it that makes you not have bad mental health and the water vapor stops him from throwing himself in the well and he's just kinda standing there not knowing what the next step should be because he kinda planned his day around this

Have you considered https://givin.gifts? They see themselves as the unofficial successor of redditgifts (they even let you import redditgifts gallery posts back when they were still online). They opened their Happy Holidays 2026 signups a couple of days ago and any premium user could also create a custom fediverse Secret Santa exchange.

I took part in every givin.gifts Happy Holidays exchange since redditgifts shut down and I’m happy with it. If there are any problems with your gifter, their team is really invested in smoothing things out and getting you a rematch if needed.

"About 30 percent of all detainees, more than 20,000 people, have disappeared from the database, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court in Boston last month by the National Immigration Law Center and several other groups, which assert that the change is unlawful."

In an overdue response to the slow demise of RSS, X, etc., I finally created a LinkedIn account where I will link to my blog posts. Weird place (image-related).

I'm on a short leash/quota for initiating connections, but happy to reciprocate: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjamin-mako-hill-132922444/

@dtauvdiodr lol oh definitely

@rickmurnane thank you, and you're welcome! ❤️

Why didn't California tax billionaires?

Why did California's billionai...

wait, did the shell used by david heilhitler and co seriously change their name to mussolini's title

https://duxlabs.dev

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duce

Yes.
RSF urges Congress to impeach FCC Chairman Brendan Carr
https://rsf.org/en/usa-rsf-urges-congress-impeach-fcc-chairman-brendan-carr

I mean, what do you expect from an explicitly (m)arxist-(l)eninist instance. Their entire religion is "west bad, russia and china literally the best" and censoring any wrongthink. And yet there you are implying Russia is behind a bad thing. Of course they'd take action against you.

Imo fediverse projects really need to federate instance rules. Just include them in the instance actor (if they aren't already) like you'd do with a community, then use them if available.

Saw a post saying some shitty Christian lemmy instance was spamming bullshit on one of their latest posts, I said something along the lines of “probably Russians”. Come to find out my comment was removed and I was banned… then to find out they effectively have a CCP agent running town… lol.

I’ve seen people mention they were a garbage instance, now I know why! They said I broke rule 1 … this might just be the app I’m using but they don’t even have any fucking rules to look at lmao.

Glad they did the work for me and made it easy to avoid them.

@KekunPlazas alors je copie:
Alors on est 100% d'accord que les êtres humains font partie d'Animalia 😁
C'est juste que je creuse un truc sur le contexte d'animaux non humains "issus" de l'activité humaine.
Genre est-ce qu'on a des contes / fables /histoires a mobiliser quand on parle d'avancees techniques comme Dolly la brebis clonée

@jeffjarvis Great article, Jeff. It breaks down so much of what's going on with "AI".