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Jerry Bell :verified_paw: :donor: :verified_dragon: :rebelverified:​

@vmstan @doug Additionally, I am not sure what additional safety mechanisms are missing, to be honest. Perhaps making block lists more frictionless? Allowing admins to block certain words? (Which btw, would cause it's own set of backlash for flitering out legitimate use of some words)...

1 August at 14:35 | Open on infosec.exchange
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Renaud Chaput

@jerry word-based filtering has many many issues. As server blocklists do. Before having tools that reinforce this, we want those tools to not be invisible to users and provide some auditing. Not doing so, in our experience, creates very bad experiences for users.
Add the fact that being a federated network makes most of the things much more difficult to implement properly.
@vmstan @doug

1 August at 14:46 | Open on oisaur.com
Renaud Chaput

@jerry and this is also why we introduced the severed relationship mechanism, as well as the (still needikg improvements) filtered notification system. Now that we have those, which allow more auditing and decision visibility, we will need to able to add more tools, like blocklist syncing.
@vmstan @doug

1 August at 14:51 | Open on oisaur.com
adamrice

@jerry @vmstan @doug Something that might help would be allowing individuals to subscribe to curated block lists, not just admins. Not sure how disruptive that would be to the fediverse.

1 August at 15:11 | Open on c.im
Doug

@jerry
I think there are a lot of marginalised people - users, mods and admins - who would have a lot to say about additional safety features, and would appreciate being consulted in design and testing before it's released.
@vmstan

1 August at 15:56 | Open on union.place
S Vermin Rose

@jerry As we all know, Trust and Safety is hard, and a challenge is that when it fails it hits some users far harder than others. The idea that it's unduly onerous on those users to block trolls is new to me - I'm not a domain expert. But I want to hear Black voices, so their problem is, to an extent, my problem. Could a mitigation be curated block lists? I have a foggy recollection of such a facility being available on a certain legacy microblogging platform.

1 August at 16:25 | Open on linuxrocks.online
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