 We believe the internet should be a place where everyone feels safe, respected and empowered to connect. That’s why this #GivingTuesday we’re launching a campaign to fund a vital new role at #Mastodon: ✨ Trust & Safety Lead ✨ With the recent US elections and many changes to come, protecting our community has never been more important. We officially kick off on *Tue, Dec 3rd* but if you’d like, you can make an impact today. Thank you for your support!  51 comments
 @Mastodon Fantastic, thank you so much for all your work creating and maintaining this space!   @Mastodon I need a honest man am single please I can't deal with it anymore I have to express it  @Mastodon Maybe they'll eliminate the double-standard many instances have with critiques of Islam versus other religions.... to the moderators doing this 👁🫣🫵 @Mastodon ストーリー Mastodon は、テクノロジーだけにとどまらず、常に人々を重視してきました。プライバシーが尊重され、嫌がらせが許されず、コミュニティが繁栄できる場所です。 しかし、私たちが成長するにつれて、Mastodon の特別な部分を保護する必要性も高まります。 だからこそ、私たちはこの Giving Tuesday キャンペーンを立ち上げ、Trust & Safety Lead に資金を提供します。これは、モデレーション ツールとサーバー ブロックリストを強化し、不正使用を防止し、すべてのユーザーが安全でサポートされていると感じられるよう、プラットフォームが敬意を持って開かれた会話の道標であり続けることを保証する専任の役割です。   @Mastodon@mastodon.social
I need wonder no more. I just confirmed that my gag reflex still works on autopilot.  This is raising massive alarm bells for me! Why so vague? US Elections? Change? What do you mean? Are you picking sides? Are you enforcing Trust? Trust in who exactly? Who decides what is safe? e.g. is pro- or anti- abortion 'safe'? Are you asking for funding for a policing role without publishing a set of clear objectives? Why a stuffed toy, and not... a human being? Policy mandates via anthropomorphised polyester mastodon, really??  @kel welcome to Mastodon, how may I help you? Seriously though, follow the governance and you can find some answers to your questions. Top-down dictatorship with the top guy surrounding himself with people who are as opaque as they come. It is a tight ship that doesn't care about what any of us think. They are doing this because they are feeling the pressure of Bluesky. @unexpectedteapot @kel, What exactly pressure are you talking about? At least with Mastodon, you can operate your own community outside the scope of another person who is running the code and their instance. If you want to run independently without federation, you can do that. Bluesky is different from Mastodon; Mastodon is only a type of instance that you can use to connect to the ActivityPub federation. While Bluesky, modular, tries to become AP on its own, but AFAIK cannot run by itself. @kel @Mastodon I think they are talking about "Every donation fuels the mission to keep Mastodon an independent, safe and ad-free alternative to mainstream for-profit platforms, centrally operated out of the U.S., backed by venture capital. " I think there is more to the mastodon as a script/application to run as an instance than the mastodon as a service that you use. By the way, the one who decided the policy and policed your post in your instance is the administrator of your instance. The first part is interesting and useful thanks! The last two points, I am, already aware of thanks again! The last one is why I like Mastodon, it allows for everyone to find their space and keeps the policing decentralised and accountable within it's own structures and relationships. Is it perfect? No! Is it better than one person having absolute control - hell yeah!! It feels more natural. I am asking what it needs beyond this, I guess? @kel @Mastodon I think they need funds to develop better moderation tools or something like that and also to keep the code more to general people, not to those of capital owners. You know, sometimes, if the software becomes too big, some venture will try to gain profit from it, which made sense since their mission is to make a profit. Other than that, I don't know what they intend to do; at least, that's what I got after reading that link. Yes, I see what you mean! I was led to believe that this immutability was already enshrined in some legal contract somewhere, but I may be mistaken. @i_understand @kel @Mastodon Well, I hope they will donate some money to Mastodon since they are actively using it.  @Mastodon I already ranted about this earlier... I know eugen won't listen (as always) but... safety and scale cannot coexist. https://scicomm.xyz/@ailurocrat/113572750602347870  @Mastodon It would be really nice if the page wasn't so vague and ambiguous about what this role would do, it isn't clear about what the job of this person would be, what specific measures or things this person would do to ensure "trust and safety" and what do you even mean with "trust" to begin with?  @antimundo "Trust & Safety" is an industry-wide term that refers to practices of moderation to protect users, and practices to deal with inappropriate or illegal material on user-content platforms. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust_and_safety I'd also like more elaboration on the role and how T&S will be addressed and expanded because it is a vital thing which has been extremely neglected in the fedi.  @Mastodon As a white, trans, queer, disabled person, I BEG you to hire a Black or Brown non-cis-man for this position. We (wpp) Think we can be objective. We Think we understand. We Do Not. Concurrently, anyone who has not experienced systemic misogyny is similarly unprepared. It is vital that Mastodon do this Differently than so many before, who assumed that awareness was the same as lived experience, or that all lived experience was the same. My 2 cents. @Mastodon every trust and safety tool mastodon has has been implemented over eugen's objections. until the problem of the project being directed by the bizarre and inconsistent delusions (such as this idea mastodon will somehow become a hub of resistance under trump — eugen is also on record as stating he would help the federal government set up a presence on mastodon if they asked) of a single man, i don't see how hiring one more person for him to ignore will help anyone here smoke weed  @Mastodon I want to buy a plushie and if you have a mug too like in the picture. Thank you. @Mastodon an absolute unicorn of a job. I look forward to see what it is!  They want to hire their very own Yoel Roth to find mis/ disinformation and ban/ defed users who post it. This person will likely be connected to intel services like Roth was at X.
@Mastodon So, aside from the Head of T&S, how many other people are working on moderation tools, education, and advisement in Mastodon? What are the responsibilities of this Head position, since they will obviously be very different than someone in the same position with the responsibilities of a centralized network?   @Mastodon I just donated! I hope this new role will help make Mastodon a safer, more welcoming space for POC @Mastodon  |
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@Mastodon really good idea!! ❤️