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 @tamitha @thisismissem right and part of this is that it's incredibly frustrating to see how immature the never-threads people are on so many levels They just can't be pleased And their ideas and asks are so disjoint from reality as far as current staffing and funding. So it's just... So... Exhausting. Because they don't understand how open source development and maintenance works. And I think MissEm does. 6 comments
 @thisismissem @risottobias @tamitha Learning from each other is good. Yet we still have to keep in mind that Meta is, as a whole, an abusive and outright dangerous company no matter how nice those who work there are. Those who make the calls are not. I shall be damned if those tools Meta will offer can be self-hosted without any legal or technical catch to them.  @Natanox @risottobias @tamitha short answer is "we don't know" regarding those tools. @thisismissem @risottobias @tamitha That is technically correct. That doesn't mean one should give Meta even a slither of trust about anything. If they want to contribute tools by making them Open-Source and self-hostable with a proper license like AGPL, sure. However doing or accepting anything else with/from Meta would just be ridiculously ignorant at this point. @Natanox @risottobias @tamitha for what it's worth, Meta has already been opensourcing tooling for trust and safety, e.g., https://github.com/facebook/ThreatExchange/ The algorithms from which power StopNCII.org to my knowledge. @Natanox @thisismissem @tamitha already open sourc'd lol. |
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@risottobias @tamitha it's also 100% okay to not take software anyone offers. Whether that's from Meta or what I work on at IFTAS.
But there's certainly things we can all learn from others. e.g., I've some Ideas for improving moderation in mastodon & pixelfed, directly inspired by Software I've seen elsewhere for moderation purposes.