This server has imported the first set of banned instances, using @moderation's and @admin's work as a template. Thank you cathode.church and neuromatch for providing this resource.
Roh nouveauté de modération :
"Bien que votre compte ne soit pas privé, les modérateurs de framapiaf ont pensé que vous pourriez vouloir valider manuellement la demande d'ajout de ce compte"
Avec une entrée dédiée dans la barre latérale qui a disparu aussi vite.
Au top 🙌 #Modération
"The WordPress ActivityPub integration has some interesting updates, with better moderation tooling support. You can now subscribe to shared blocklists, where the blocklist of your site will automatically sync with the source blocklist. This is an easy way to keep the moderation process automatic, provided you trust the source of the shared blocklist."
@laurenshof, 2025
https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fediverse-report-147/
Liquid democracy in action.
#WordPress ActivityPub #moderation #SharedBlocklists #LiquidDemocracy
@misjavanlaatum
> Let's definitely not underestimate the role big tech plays in this
Indeed, and as Farrell says in the piece I linked, it's not just a problem of mis/disinformation; unfacts presented as facts. Those platforms feed our subconscious worldbuilding heuristics a persistent false sense of the world, against which factual claims are evaluated, and everyone is being fed a subtly different false sense. Eroding our capacity for social consensus-finding.
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Me:
> eroding our capacity for social consensus-finding
This got me thinking about why the word 'moderator' describes the curator of a communication channel.
There's a habit to mentally substitute 'censor' when we think about that role, even for those who approve of it. But the work of moderation isn't primarily about deciding whether this or that post/ user account is welcome in the channel. That's a means to an end.
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thisismissem/116012963302634018
From one of the items on the agenda:
"How could peer moderation work in an ActivityPub context?"
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French police raided the #Paris offices of #ElonMusk’s #X Tuesday & summoned the #tech #billionaire for questioning as part of a widening probe into the #socialmedia company & its #AI chatbot #Grok.
The search was linked to an investigation opened in January 2025, the Paris prosecutor’s office said Tuesday, adding that its #cybercrime unit conducted the #raid with help from #Europol.
#law #regulation #Musk #xAI #content #moderation #safety #abuse
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/03/business/x-paris-prosecutor-raid-intl
More of this please
French police raided the #Paris offices of #ElonMusk’s #X Tuesday & summoned the #tech #billionaire for questioning as part of a widening probe into the #socialmedia company & its #AI chatbot #Grok.
The search was linked to an investigation opened in January 2025, the Paris prosecutor’s office said Tuesday, adding that its #cybercrime unit conducted the #raid with help from #Europol.
#law #regulation #Musk #xAI #content #moderation #safety #abuse
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/03/business/x-paris-prosecutor-raid-intl
Tim Chambers
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Weeks before #ElonMusk officially left his perch in government last spring, employees on the #human #data team of his #ArtificialIntelligence start-up #xAI received a startling #waiver from their employer, asking them to pledge to work with profane #content, including sexual material.
#law #regulation #tech #AI #Musk #Grok #moderation #safety #abuse #pedophilia
Tim Chambers
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Inside #Musk’s bet to hook users that turned #Grok into a porn generator
Under pressure to boost its popularity, Elon Musk’s #xAI loosened its guardrails & relaxed controls on sexual content, setting off internal concern.
#law #regulation #tech #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #content #moderation #safety #abuse #pedophilia
https://wapo.st/45DcMMI
Their concerns proved prescient, the employees said. In the next few months, team members were suddenly exposed to a stream of sexually charged audio, including lewd conversations that #Tesla occupants had with the car’s #chatbot & other users’ sexual interactions with #Grok #chatbots, said one of the people, a manager. The material surfaced as the team worked to train Grok to engage in such interactions.
#law #regulation #Musk #xAI #tech #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #content #moderation #abuse
Since leaving his role overseeing the #US #DOGE Service in May, #Musk has become a constant presence at #xAI’s offices—at times sleeping there overnight [undoubtedly whacked out on #ketamine] —as he has pressed to increase #Grok’s popularity…. In meeting after meeting he has championed a new metric, “user active seconds,” to granularly measure how long people spent conversing with the #chatbot, acc/to 2 of the people.
#law #regulation #tech #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #content #moderation #abuse
The #waiver, which 2 former employees confirmed receiving & a copy of which was obtained by WaPo—was alarming to some members on the team, who had been hired to help shape how #xAI’s #chatbot #Grok responds to users. To some employees, it signaled a troubling new direction for a company launched “to accelerate human scientific discovery,” acc/to its website. Maybe now, they said they thought, it was willing to produce whatever #content might attract & keep users.
#law #regulation #Musk #tech #AI
Their concerns proved prescient, the employees said. In the next few months, team members were suddenly exposed to a stream of sexually charged audio, including lewd conversations that #Tesla occupants had with the car’s #chatbot & other users’ sexual interactions with #Grok #chatbots, said one of the people, a manager. The material surfaced as the team worked to train Grok to engage in such interactions.
#law #regulation #Musk #xAI #tech #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #content #moderation #abuse
Weeks before #ElonMusk officially left his perch in government last spring, employees on the #human #data team of his #ArtificialIntelligence start-up #xAI received a startling #waiver from their employer, asking them to pledge to work with profane #content, including sexual material.
#law #regulation #tech #AI #Musk #Grok #moderation #safety #abuse #pedophilia
Their jobs would require being exposed to “sensitive, violent, sexual and/or other offensive or disturbing content,” the #waiver said, emphasizing that such content “may be disturbing, traumatizing, and/or cause you psychological stress.” [JFC!]
#law #regulation #Musk #Grok #xAI #tech #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #content #moderation #safety #abuse #pedophilia
Weeks before #ElonMusk officially left his perch in government last spring, employees on the #human #data team of his #ArtificialIntelligence start-up #xAI received a startling #waiver from their employer, asking them to pledge to work with profane #content, including sexual material.
#law #regulation #tech #AI #Musk #Grok #moderation #safety #abuse #pedophilia
Inside #Musk’s bet to hook users that turned #Grok into a porn generator
Under pressure to boost its popularity, Elon Musk’s #xAI loosened its guardrails & relaxed controls on sexual content, setting off internal concern.
#law #regulation #tech #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #content #moderation #safety #abuse #pedophilia
https://wapo.st/45DcMMI
Specifically, it is essential that we know whether the Mastodon server covenant (https://joinmastodon.org/covenant) adopts the IHRA’s Working Definition of Antisemitism (https://holocaustremembrance.com/resources/working-definition-antisemitism) – which conflates antisemitism with criticism of Israel – or the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism (https://jerusalemdeclaration.org) – which does not. (Or some other declaration that I’m not myself aware of or had discussed with the mastodon.social team.)
#mastodon #serverCovenant #antisemitism #moderation #israel #zionism #genocide #Gaza #Palestine https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/115989885113349752
@ambiguous_yelp Checked it out. Can't see anything but forgettable mundane stuff. No political engagement. No social commentary. What am I missing?
@MaxG If you want more of something you should post it yourself, upscrolled will end in tears, especially their "we dont moderate on political bases" is a red flag that they will basically go the same way as bluesky. In case you didnt know, "politics" is used in this context to allow people to continue abusive or harmful behaviour that the moderator doesn't consider "political" and then those that speak out against it are considered political, I can't get into the entire history of similar cases right now but I've posts about problems with bluesky and I predict many of these will happen on upscrolled
Its basically got the same red flags as "free speech" enthusiasts
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Who moderates the social web?
In the second post of our 2025 report series, we look at the people behind the work, their roles, experience, and how many are burning out.
Now with three years of data, we’re also looking at trends.
https://about.iftas.org/2026/01/21/behind-the-numbers-who-moderates-the-social-web/
Who moderates the social web?
In the second post of our 2025 report series, we look at the people behind the work, their roles, experience, and how many are burning out.
Now with three years of data, we’re also looking at trends.
https://about.iftas.org/2026/01/21/behind-the-numbers-who-moderates-the-social-web/