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Eugen Rochko

I'm sorry but if you use Mastodon posts to train systems for filtering inappropriate content you will lose all eye contact, alcohol, US politics, and Star Wars discussions from your platform...

(This is from the paper "Mastodon Content Warnings: Inappropriate Contents in a Microblogging Platform" published by the University of Milan)

Abstract Our social communications and the expression of our belicfs and thoughts are becoming increasingly mediated and dif- fused by online social media. Beyond countless other advan- tages, this democratization and freedom of expression is also entailing the transfer of unpleasant offline behaviors to the online life, such as cyberbullying, sexting, hate speech and, in ‘general, any behavior not suitable for the online community people belong to. To mitigate or even remove these threats from their platforms, most of the social media providers are implementing solutions for the automatic detection and fil- tering of such inappropriate contents. However, the data they use to train their tools are not publicly available. In this context, we release a dataset gathered from Mastodon, a distribute online social network which is formed by com- ‘munities that impose the rules of publication, and which al- lows its users to mark their posts inappropriate if they per- ceived them not suitable for the community they belong to.
13 Jan 2020 at 9:12 | Open on mastodon.social
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T.W.

@Gargron and thank goodness for that! 😛

13 Jan 2020 at 9:15 | Open on mastodon.social
starwall

@Gargron I have more qualifications as a mastodon scientist than these goons

13 Jan 2020 at 9:15 | Open on radical.town
yaaps :verified:
Rusty

@Gargron Possibly a lot of mental health as well.

13 Jan 2020 at 9:16 | Open on crunchywatch.uk
Nate Cull

@Gargron but will they keep all the jorts posts

13 Jan 2020 at 19:39 | Open on mastodon.social
✨ starry night ✨

@Gargron and food! which is a significant part of our culture we can't afford to get censored!

13 Jan 2020 at 19:59 | Open on niu.moe
passable

@Gargron as if harassers here are cw'ing their bullying and hate speech!

14 Jan 2020 at 3:30 | Open on mastodon.social
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