"There is a technical story, of how #Bluesky and #ATProto do #composablemoderation for specific countries. But this is not just an interesting technology, it has implications of #government #censorship more broadly. Not only is #Turkey's censorship of accounts even easier to #sidestep, it also allows for new ways to highlight and create #visibility for the content that the Turkish government wants to be hidden.

…a closer look at how #moderation works on Bluesky."

https://fediversereport.com/bluesky-censorship-and-country-based-moderation/

"Users on the official #Bluesky app can configure their moderation settings but have no way to #optout of the #moderation service Bluesky provides. This includes its use of #geographiclabelers, like the newly added Turkish moderation labeler that handles the #censorship of accounts mandated in #Turkey.
…if you’re on the official Bluesky app and the company agrees to censor something in your region, there’s no way to opt out of this to see the hidden posts or accounts."
https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/23/government-censorship-comes-to-bluesky-but-not-its-third-party-apps-yet/

Du local qui envoie du très lourd, @personaldataio https://personaldata.io/data4mods/
#modération #dataLove #dataPorn #dataWorkers

Update: I reported the bot. Thanks.

A Mastodon bot account at mastodon.cloud scans the fediverse, scrapes selected web pages shared there, rewrites them with AI, posts them to its own site, and shares on Mastodon as tech news the rewritten AI slop. The bot scraped a post of mine (including the attached image) within minutes of my federated blog publishing it.

Is it worth flagging the bot and reporting it to its instance? Are the mods likely to take action?

I received quite a few spam-like messages on my timeline (cryptocoin scam) without the ability to track where they actually came from (no one from my followees boosted them or anything). All "trending" things for the timeline I have set as completely off. Looks to me a lot like these are inserted as "paid advertising". Did anyone on mastodon.online see the same recently? #mastodon #moderation #spam

Bluesky Restricts 72 Accounts in Turkey, Complying with Government Pressure

#Bluesky #Turkey #Censorship #SocialMedia #TechPolicy #FreedomSpeech #InternetFreedom #Regulation #Moderation

https://winbuzzer.com/2025/04/20/bluesky-restricts-72-accounts-in-turkey-complying-with-government-pressure-xcxwbn/

Y'all got to stop pushing your political agendas by reporting conflicting ideologies, try to start civil discussions with them instead of silencing attempts.

It's a #moderation effort no one wants or needs, thanks!

We're trying to promote small instances (increased decentralization) with moderated signups (saver for the wole Fediverse) that opt-in to be added to our list (consent).

https://joinfediverse.wiki/Instances

We’ll be shutting down our public Matrix rooms and bridges due to issues with moderation, ecosystem, and lack of usage.

Read more here: https://blog.fyralabs.com/dropping-matrix/

#matrix #foss #moderation #safety #element #fyralabs

Le ministère a demandé à #Google de supprimer les avis sur les établissements scolaires. Vu que le sujet de la #modération intéresse le ministère, ils peuvent se préoccuper des dégradations de #Wikipédia commises depuis les établissements scolaires https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2025/04/16/google-maps-desactive-les-avis-sur-les-etablissements-scolaires-pour-lutter-contre-les-contributions-hors-sujet-et-nuisibles_6596676_4408996.html #GoogleMaps

Le gouvernement israélien a fait supprimer à Meta des publications pro-palestiniennes dans plus d’une dizaine de pays arabes

https://next.ink/brief_article/le-gouvernement-israelien-a-fait-supprimer-a-meta-des-publications-pro-palestiniennes-dans-plus-dune-dizaine-de-pays-arabes/

Обнаружил тут, что в Mastodon появилась страница "Severed relationships" в разделе "Follows and followers" настроек.

You may lose follows and followers when you block a domain or when your moderators decide to suspend a remote server. When that happens, you will be able to download lists of severed relationships, to be inspected and possibly imported on another server.

Наконец-то сам Mastodon предоставил хоть какой-то инструмент борьбы с последствиями действий бесноватых модераторов.

Следующий шаг - сообщать пользователю в уведомлениях, что в связи с действиями администрации связь с XXX нарушена и предлагать сменить сервер для восстановления.

Это, как и указание налога на чеке с товаром, могло бы несколько повысить осознанность пользователей.

By the way, how do instance admins handle take down notices?

Say you receive a legal request to take some content down because it's illegal in country X, how does that work?

I have to say, 98% of me being confronted with spam in the Fediverse is other people talking about it. This comes down to excellent moderation of my old main account. But what delights me even more is how quiet it is on my own private server, with no moderation at all.

Of course this is a really small account and everything, but if you don't enable open sign-ups and require to approve follow requests, a big part of the problem is covered.

I see people complaining -- and guess what? 9 out of 10 are on mastodon.social. I totally get that not everyone wants or is able to host their own server. That's fine. But if you're joining the Fediverse on mastodon.social, then complain that Mastodon or even the Fediverse is bad because of spam, without every trying another server, you kinda missed the point.

Leaked #data reveals Israeli #government campaign to remove pro-Palestine posts on #Meta

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/leaked-data-israeli-censorship-meta

#discord IS LITERALLY THE PROBLEM!

• It's worse than any #IRC, #Mumble or even the old #TeamSpeak & #Skype for that matter.

• It combines the disadvantages of #Forum, #paywalled #documentation, #chat and #voicechat with 0 redeeming qualities (unlike #Zulip & Mumble & #XMPP+#OMEMO) it's just an #InformationBlackhole!

I'm shure fecking #dread has better moderation and I'd rather use #MicrosoftTeams + #Slack cuz those at least have proper #moderation tools.

• And I'd rather subscribe to the #LKML and see my inbox getting hosed than using any shitty #SaaS!

Case in point: I'd rather #SelfHost all my comms infrastructure than to ever use something like Discord or any other #GDPR-violating SaaS that is just enshittification.

I'd rather recommend people to instead choose a tool that does everything but horrible to go with multiple smaller & good tools

• Public Chat? IRC!
• Group Voicechat? Mumble.
• #Documentation? #mkDocs-material.
• 1:1 Chats? XMPP+OMEMO.
• E2EE Group Chats? #deltaChat.
• E2EE Calls? #WebCall.
• Filehosting? #IPFS, #BitTorrent, oshi.at, etc. ...
• …

Check @alternativeto and @european_alternatives for options.

@iftas

Anybody working on maintaining #iftas fedicheck ? This was a pretty critical service that I feel like had a ton of potential. It's not even on github anymore ;_____;