On the coordination for better moderation systems

There is a need for better moderation systems on the fediverse. But getting people to coordinate to build and adopt such systems is proving to be a challenge.

Beyond moderation: labelers for security/safe browsing, existing services to use · bluesky-social atproto · Discussion #1595

So far, much of the conversation around third party labelers has focused on content moderation. That's an important first use case, but obviously not the only one. We talked a bit about the dow...

The Inexorable Push For Infrastructure Moderation

I’m grateful to Techdirt and the EFF for this series. There are so many legitimately difficult issues around content moderation at the application layer—that is, on (and usually by) pla…

Towards Sustainable Moderation for 3rd Party ATProto Development

I had the chance to chat with Ronen and Wesley from semble.so at the ATProto Boston meetup last week. They mentioned to me that a topic of discussion among non-Bluesky ATProto developers in Montreal was a growing recognition that they would need to start doing moderation on their services sooner rather than later. I was very quickly able to demonstrate that labeling third party lexicons was fairly simple. That said, I think tooling is the easy part—between larger organizations like Roost and Z...

Infrastructural Regulation and the New Utilities

From too-big-to-fail financial firms to net neutrality to internet platforms and the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, we now face a variety of legal and public

Funding the Commons | Public Goods Funding

We convene researchers, builders, and institutions to develop the funding mechanisms, governance systems, and coordination tools that public goods need in an age of AI.

Designing decentralized moderation

In decentralized social networks, moderation decisions are made locally by users, servers, or other network entities. This basic…

Moderation on Blacksky-Only Posts: A Community Proposal

Our team has explored several ways to make permissioned posts possible. Now we’re bringing the decision back to the community. Below are three approaches to moderation: a machine-learning system that automates moderation, a large-scale peer moderator program, or a hybrid model that combines both. We’re inviting your feedback to help decide how we should govern privacy together.

SCA - News and views from across our networks

Over the last few years, SCVO has been engaging with organisations across the voluntary sector to collect evidence on the issues and barriers faced around access to funding. The evidence collected clearly demonstrates the urgent need for Fair Funding. We, along with many of our intermediary network members have contributed to this work, providing case studies relating to Government priorities as well as sector wide themes, illustrating why implementing Fair Funding is an investment in Scotland’s essential voluntary sector for a sustainable future.

moderation - plyr.fm

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Bluesky 2023 Moderation Report - Bluesky

We have hired and trained a full-time team of moderators, launched and iterated on several community and individual moderation features, developed and refined policies both public and internal, designed and redesigned product features to reduce abuse, and built several infrastructure components from scratch to support our Trust and Safety work.

Funding Open Source for Digital Sovereignty

"Open Source alone won't deliver digital sovereignty. Europe must fix procurement and fund those who actually build it."