Bluesky Restricts 72 Accounts in Turkey, Complying with Government Pressure

#Bluesky #Turkey #Censorship #SocialMedia #TechPolicy #FreedomSpeech #InternetFreedom #Regulation #Moderation

https://winbuzzer.com/2025/04/20/bluesky-restricts-72-accounts-in-turkey-complying-with-government-pressure-xcxwbn/

Y'all got to stop pushing your political agendas by reporting conflicting ideologies, try to start civil discussions with them instead of silencing attempts.

It's a #moderation effort no one wants or needs, thanks!

We're trying to promote small instances (increased decentralization) with moderated signups (saver for the wole Fediverse) that opt-in to be added to our list (consent).

https://joinfediverse.wiki/Instances

En France, l'hébergeur a-t-il la responsabilité de la modération ou la loi lui impose-t-elle d’agir promptement en cas de notification d’un contenu illicite ?

Cette question est très importante et va conditionner les futures développements de notre projet JamClub !

Dans les deux cas précités, sur quelle base juridique fonctionne une plateforme comme elest.io ? (qui se propose de mettre à disposition des applications web du fediverse)

We’ll be shutting down our public Matrix rooms and bridges due to issues with moderation, ecosystem, and lack of usage.

Read more here: https://blog.fyralabs.com/dropping-matrix/

#matrix #foss #moderation #safety #element #fyralabs

Le gouvernement israélien a fait supprimer à Meta des publications pro-palestiniennes dans plus d’une dizaine de pays arabes

https://next.ink/brief_article/le-gouvernement-israelien-a-fait-supprimer-a-meta-des-publications-pro-palestiniennes-dans-plus-dune-dizaine-de-pays-arabes/

By the way, how do instance admins handle take down notices?

Say you receive a legal request to take some content down because it's illegal in country X, how does that work?

I have to say, 98% of me being confronted with spam in the Fediverse is other people talking about it. This comes down to excellent moderation of my old main account. But what delights me even more is how quiet it is on my own private server, with no moderation at all.

Of course this is a really small account and everything, but if you don't enable open sign-ups and require to approve follow requests, a big part of the problem is covered.

I see people complaining -- and guess what? 9 out of 10 are on mastodon.social. I totally get that not everyone wants or is able to host their own server. That's fine. But if you're joining the Fediverse on mastodon.social, then complain that Mastodon or even the Fediverse is bad because of spam, without every trying another server, you kinda missed the point.

Leaked #data reveals Israeli #government campaign to remove pro-Palestine posts on #Meta

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/leaked-data-israeli-censorship-meta

#discord IS LITERALLY THE PROBLEM!

• It's worse than any #IRC, #Mumble or even the old #TeamSpeak & #Skype for that matter.

• It combines the disadvantages of #Forum, #paywalled #documentation, #chat and #voicechat with 0 redeeming qualities (unlike #Zulip & Mumble & #XMPP+#OMEMO) it's just an #InformationBlackhole!

I'm shure fecking #dread has better moderation and I'd rather use #MicrosoftTeams + #Slack cuz those at least have proper #moderation tools.

• And I'd rather subscribe to the #LKML and see my inbox getting hosed than using any shitty #SaaS!

Case in point: I'd rather #SelfHost all my comms infrastructure than to ever use something like Discord or any other #GDPR-violating SaaS that is just enshittification.

I'd rather recommend people to instead choose a tool that does everything but horrible to go with multiple smaller & good tools

• Public Chat? IRC!
• Group Voicechat? Mumble.
• #Documentation? #mkDocs-material.
• 1:1 Chats? XMPP+OMEMO.
• E2EE Group Chats? #deltaChat.
• E2EE Calls? #WebCall.
• Filehosting? #IPFS, #BitTorrent, oshi.at, etc. ...
• …

Check @alternativeto and @european_alternatives for options.

Wir reden über Einsamkeit.
Ein unterschätztes Gefühl.
Der hr1-Talk mit dem Sozialforscher Janosch Schobin.
Am Sonntag von 10-12 im
Und danach jederzeit abrufbar in der ARD-Audiothek.

Infos
https://www.hr1.de/sendungen/hr1-talk/der-hr1-talk-mit-janosch-schobin,talk-1098.html

@iftas

Anybody working on maintaining #iftas fedicheck ? This was a pretty critical service that I feel like had a ton of potential. It's not even on github anymore ;_____;

Effective moderation of social media to curb genocidal content

"The 2020-2022 Tigray war is reported to be the deadliest armed conflict of the 21𝑠𝑡 century, with an estimated 600 to 800,000 documented deaths and more than 100 thousand victims of rape as a weapon of war. Social media platforms were instrumental in spreading genocidal content during the conflict, and failure to effectively moderate hateful content resulted in the murder of civilians. This work investigates the expertise and processes required to effectively moderate such genocidal content, and compares these findings to the expertise and processes prioritized by social media platforms."

@DAIR's page has a 10-minute video and a link to the CHI paper, and a statement - which I'll include excerpts from in a reply.

I'll be reaching out to the City of Langford today to offer them a safer, moderated, place to post timely information for their community.

Would love to see them join @EsquimaltBC here on #SocialBC

Facebook is where many communities have ended up, but unfortunately it has become dominated by a few very loud, very inappropriate, damaging voices. The harm is real.

The Open Social Web can provide an alternative.

#BCMuni #Local #Facebook #Moderation
https://www.houston-today.com/news/bc-city-flicks-switch-on-facebook-after-threatening-sexually-explicit-comments-7934474?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Klar, dass Elon #Musk nun wieder mit antisemitischen #Verschwörungsmythen um sich wirft und auf X behauptet, die US-Proteste gegen Donald #Trump seien vom jüdischen Milliardär George #Soros finanziert... #Antisemitismus

Freundliche Grüße gehen raus ans OLG #Frankfurt, das vor einem Jahr nach einem Erfolg in erster Instanz meine Klage auf #Moderation gegen #Twitter schwer nachvollziehbar abgewiesen hat. Viele fragen bang: Wie "wehrhaft" ist der deutsche #Rechtsstaat?

https://hateaid.org/berufungsurteil-wirft-grundsatzfrage-nach-meldewegen-auf/

Dans le cadre du #Digital #Services #Act ( #DSA ) , l’ #Europe #UE pourrait faire payer très cher à #Heilon #Musk et #Twitter (X) leur laxisme sur la #modération

Une amende dont le montant pourrait dépasser le milliard d’euros

https://www.numerama.com/politique/1944829-leurope-pourrait-faire-payer-tres-cher-a-elon-musk-et-twitter-x-leur-laxisme-sur-la-moderation.html