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ophiocephalic 🐍

@katzenberger
"Nothing is said about who outside of the Fediverse gets to query a provider, or to process the data that has been extracted from a fediverse server feed - and for which purposes."

The fact that the referenced passage links to a blog post about third-party data collection and algorithmic contraband media detection might provide a clue

12 September at 15:55 | Wall-to-wall | Open on kolektiva.social
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katzenberger

@ophiocephalic

Another clue there: »Why external providers?

As it stands, scaling a Mastodon instance is hard, as the operators need to form a moderation team with 24/7 availability and good reaction times, learn about all the specific vectors for abuse and common issues, design guidelines and more.«

Their problem is "scaling". Self-inflicted pain from running behemoth servers that are counter to the core idea of the Fediverse, and from deliberately tilting the Mastodon "joining" process so that their own behemoth keeps growing.

@ophiocephalic

Another clue there: »Why external providers?

As it stands, scaling a Mastodon instance is hard, as the operators need to form a moderation team with 24/7 availability and good reaction times, learn about all the specific vectors for abuse and common issues, design guidelines and more.«

12 September at 16:01 | Open on mastodon.de
ophiocephalic 🐍

@katzenberger
Exactly. The "trust and safety" proposal in the older post is effectively for mastodon.social. So it's rather curious that it's being pointed at in a different proposal which is seemingly about improving search and discovery for smaller instances

12 September at 16:13 | Open on kolektiva.social
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