New: Last Week in #Fediverse - ep 100 (!)

[fediversereport@mastodon.social]

New: Last Week in #Fediverse - ep 100 (!)

This week's news:
- massive growth for @pixelfed, growing from 20k active users last month to almost 200k active users currently.
- @nodebb has officially launched their #activitypub integration
- Meta will not commit or confirm a timeline for adding account migration to #threads

Thank you to everyone for reading and supporting 100 editions of Last Week in Fediverse!

Read at: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-100/

[thenexusofprivacy@infosec.exchange]

A good report as always, and agreed about the importance of @nodebb's release.

With @pixelfed , it's important to highlight that the moderation story is a disaster waiting to happen. @dansup himself has said that he still needs to implement key functionality like moderation roles and a dashboard, and that he doesn't have a moderation team in place. Others have pointed out multiple unfixed bugs related to reporting.

A high-profile Pixelfed fiasco (or worse, blatantly illegal content) could not only destroy the reputation of Pixelfed, but the sharpnel could have an impact on fedi as a whole -- especially at a time when regulators in the UK are clarifying enforcement of the Online Safety Act, and anti-LGBTQIA2S+ fascist oligarch who run social networks that compete with fedi are in power in the US.

It would be great if Dan changes his stance -- turning off open registration on pixelfed.social until he has the moderation situation under control would be an easy first step that could make a big difference.

And also, we really need to think about what we can collectively do to limit the damage to fedi as a whole.

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