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Jerry Bell :verified_paw: :donor: :verified_dragon: :rebelverified:​'s posts Post Back to profile
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Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:

@Crell @jerry there's several phd thesis level problems to solve here

1 August at 14:43 | Wall-to-wall | Open on infosec.exchange
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Larry Garfield
Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:

@Crell @jerry My big concern with the web of trust model is that it's complicated, and has lots of nontrivial decisions to make. An effective tool would probably have to distill the decision to trust/neutral/distrust and have a standard scoring algorithm, and notify admins of conflicting data.

1 August at 14:49 | Open on infosec.exchange
Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:

@Crell @jerry I do think keyword/regex filters as a quarantine/alert admin thing would be helpful, but as mentioned up thread, part of the problem is people unkowingly joining instances that don't protect their users from harassment and not understanding why that's a problem. The guides saying "instance doesn't matter much" don't help.

1 August at 14:57 | Open on infosec.exchange
Larry Garfield replied to Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:

@ryanc @jerry Yeah, the onboarding experience is definitely still a sore point. Like, I'd like to get my brother or the NFP I work with onto Mastodon, but I don't know what server to send them to. Mine isn't appropriate for them, mastodon.social isn't a good answer, and the alternative is... *citation needed*

1 August at 15:00 | Open on phpc.social
Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag: replied to Larry

@Crell @jerry Yeah, I've absolutely no idea what "general but friendly to members of frequently harassed groups" instances exist. This instance is really nice, as I've always been a hacker first and foremost. Yes, I'm queer on several dimensions and open about it, but most of the time I don't want to focus on that.

1 August at 15:25 | Open on infosec.exchange
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