a reminder: that nazi bar story (kick them out before your bar turns into a nazi bar) also applies to the Fediverse
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a reminder: that nazi bar story (kick them out before your bar turns into a nazi bar) also applies to the Fediverse
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we are doing a *terrible* job at that. ask anyone who isn't white
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@shebang to be fair, it is an inherent problem of a decentralized system like the fediverse that you can't completely kick out the assholes. You can block and cut all contact with them, but in the end no one can stop them from building their own, mostly isolated network
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@0xC01DC0FFEE @shebang User safety seems to have a low priority in the core software making it more vulnerable to abuse than it ought. The problem isn't decentralization, it's poor filtering and blocking tools and features, it's ineffective public abuse tracking systems and server-side abuse detection and countermeasures.
We've known since the late 90s how to operate effective public blacklists and integrate them into mail systems for abuse prevention. There are decades-old public databases of "receipts" of unhandled abuse coming from particular mail servers; everything we developed for protecting mail systems is directly applicable to fedi. Yet the best we have are biased unverified personal blacklists that seem to be vehicles for their maintainers' ax-grinding - we can't tell because they don't publish receipts.
Decentralization is a minor contributing factor compared to the fedi's problems in architecture, implementation, and prioritization of safety.