#ActivityPub carries posts, follows, likes and so on, but not moderation. A ban stays trapped on the instance that issued it. So, for instance, an account banned for racism on one instance stays unknown to the next. Moderation is activity too, and it should travel like the rest: signed and verifiable. This is a real problem, and others have explored it already. I will look into what already exists and see what we could build on for #HolosSocial.
I have become increasing irritated when external websites recommended by posters use privacy/firewall/proxy detection to effectively Block access to that site but gain a site click benefit under false pretense of providing at least *some* useful information from the advertisement.
Telling me that I must turn it off.
Likewise the most aggressive that make the page useless with modal popovers unless you submit to coercion to add an email address and REGISTER first.
I am asking for a "Reputation Link" that
feeds a federated reputation database when readers get conned into visiting the worst offenders.
after a threshold of down votes has been exceeded:
A quantified warning is issued with that external site link. It does not get removed until *they* issue a published apology with a statement that sets acceptable behavior limits to open access.
It prevents them from gaining ANY benefit from misleading advertisement
implying that at least a summary will be readable.
@apps I think this is interesting. I don't think they should be automatically applied however? It might be useful to have some UI for showing all the remote e.g. ban notifications for a certain target. So maybe you'd see that N instances banned some user, all the reasoning if any, and some button for applying/rejecting that ban. Maybe you could also see the total instances that applied/rejected that action as well, so it's easier to form consensus? Maybe you can as a moderator reply to a mod action with a note or whatever.
Instances could Create<ModAction> and remote moderators could reply to, Like, whatever to that ModAction. Remotes could subscribe (standard Follow/Accept) to your instances ModActions collection (on the instance actor??) and get the above UI?
Above is just stream of consciousness and poorly thought out so forgive me
@apps I guess rather than being a 'mod actions' collection it'd just be the instance actors outbox, if it was to be that. but you get the idea
But what about situations where someone is blocked/banned for no reason other than someone doesn’t like someone else? Let’s say, a difference in personality, nothing more. Is it fair that one person/instance can choose to block that person throughout the Fediverse?
What solution is in place for this situation?
