“We got more photoDNA hits in a two-day period than we’ve probably had in the entire history of our organization of doing any kind of social media analysis, and it’s not even close,”
How do you have “probably” and “it’s not even close” in the same sentence?
Here’s the thing, and what I’ve been saying for a long time about The Fediverse:
I don’t care what platform you have, if it is sufficiently popular, you’re GOING to have CSAM. You’re going to have alt-right assholes. You’re going to have transphobia, you’re going to have racism and every other kind of discrimination.
People point fingers at Meta for “allowing” this but there’s no amount of money that can reasonably moderate 3 b-b-billion users. Meta, and probably every other platform that’s not Twitter or False social, does what they can about this.
Masto and Fedi admins need to be cognizant of the amount of users on their instances and need to have a sufficient number of moderators to manage those users. If they don’t have them, they need to close registrations.
But ultimately the Fediverse can also create safe-havens for these sorts of things. Making it easy to set up a discriminatory network that has no outside moderation. This is the downside of free speech.
Ultimately, it’s software. Even if my home instance does a good job of enforcing it’s CoC, and every instance it federated with does as well, someone else can spin up their own instance, load up on whatever, and I’ll never know or even be aware if it’s never federated with my instance.
How do you have “probably” and “it’s not even close” in the same sentence?
Here’s the thing, and what I’ve been saying for a long time about The Fediverse:
I don’t care what platform you have, if it is sufficiently popular, you’re GOING to have CSAM. You’re going to have alt-right assholes. You’re going to have transphobia, you’re going to have racism and every other kind of discrimination.
People point fingers at Meta for “allowing” this but there’s no amount of money that can reasonably moderate 3 b-b-billion users. Meta, and probably every other platform that’s not Twitter or False social, does what they can about this.
Masto and Fedi admins need to be cognizant of the amount of users on their instances and need to have a sufficient number of moderators to manage those users. If they don’t have them, they need to close registrations.
But ultimately the Fediverse can also create safe-havens for these sorts of things. Making it easy to set up a discriminatory network that has no outside moderation. This is the downside of free speech.
Heck, Truth Social uses Mastodon, IIRC.
Ultimately, it’s software. Even if my home instance does a good job of enforcing it’s CoC, and every instance it federated with does as well, someone else can spin up their own instance, load up on whatever, and I’ll never know or even be aware if it’s never federated with my instance.
I think it uses SOME code
This is a prime use case for AI technology
“Now you have two problems.”
Thanks for reminding me of this masterpiece of writing about management of social networks