• bahmanm@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Interesting topic - I’ve seen it surface up a few times recently.

    I’ve never been a mod anywhere so I can’t accurately think what workflows/tools a mod needs to be satisfied w/ their, well, mod’ing.

    For the sake of my education at least, can you elaborate what do you consider decent moderation tools/workflows? What gaps do you see between that and Lemmy?

    PS: I genuinely want to understand this topic better but your post doesn’t provide any details. 😅

    • smoothbrain coldtakes@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      One of the major issues is replication and propagation of illegal material. Because of the way that content is mirrored and replicated across the fediverse, attacks that flood communities with things like CSAM inevitably find their way to other federated sites due to the interconnectedness of the fediverse.

      The only response currently to dealing with these types of attacks, even if they’re not directed at you, is to generally defederate with the instance being attacked. This means whoever was attacking the site with CSAM has won, because they successfully made it so that the community becomes disjointed and disconnected from the rest of the fediverse with the hopes that it will die.

      • bahmanm@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        I see.

        So what do you think would help w/ this particular challenge? What kinds of tools/facilities would help counter that?


        Off the top of my head, do you think

        • The sign up process should be more rigorous?
        • The first couple of posts/comments by new users should be verified by the mods?
        • Mods should be notified of posts/comments w/ poor score?

        cc @PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@lemmy.ml