The Inexorable Push For Infrastructure Moderation

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.

moderation - plyr.fm

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Decentralised content moderation — Martin Kleppmann’s blog

Who is doing interesting work on decentralised content moderation?

🔎 hma moderation - Google Search

AT Moderation Architecture | bryan newbold

The AT network is becoming more heterogeneous in practice, with independent PDS hosts, apps, and alternative bsky AppViews establishing themselves. This means that more complex inter-service moderation scenarios are starting to get attention. While the labeling system was released all the way back i...

Imagining a Safer Future for Content Moderators

Through this blog series, we are exploring what the world can look like when technology is designed and deployed for the benefit of all.

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.

Designing decentralized moderation

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

Bluesky’s Stackable Approach to Moderation - Bluesky

Today, we’re open sourcing Ozone, a tool that lets a team of moderators or curators collaboratively review reports, create labels, and inspect content on the atproto network. Later this week, we’re opening up the ability for users to run their own independent moderation services.

Bluesky's Moderation Architecture | Bluesky

Moderation is a crucial aspect of any social network. However, traditional moderation systems often lack transparency and user control, leaving communities vulnerable to sudden policy changes and potential mismanagement. To build a better social media ecosystem, it is necessary to try new approaches.

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...

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...

AT Moderation Architecture | bryan newbold (⛱️ sabbatical mode)

The AT network is becoming more heterogeneous in practice, with independent PDS hosts, apps, and alternative bsky AppViews establishing themselves. This means that more complex inter-service moderation scenarios are starting to get attention. While the labeling system was released all the way back i...

Surf: A Fresh Take on Digital Media Curation and Discovery

Explore how Mike McCue's Surf app redefines content consumption with human curation, battling algorithm-driven media chaos.