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Also : - Handle DMCA notices and law enforcement requests for taking down illegal content. - Hackers compromising accounts. - Private data being compromised

Also : - Handle DMCA notices and law enforcement requests for taking down illegal content. - Hackers compromising accounts. - Private data being compromised because of Wordpress like security bugs. - Spam / Bots spreading junk and fake news. - Permanently deleting content. - Concerns around terrorism, grooming, child pornography etc These problems will become major headaches at scale.

kodablah 9y ago
I'm not sure many people require those to move from FB.
- AlphaWeaver 9y ago
  No, but some of these may be legally required in order to operate as a competitor to Facebook.
  - errantmind 9y ago
    I don't think anyone is saying the alternative should operate as a business competitor to facebook. I think the idea would be for the service to be fully decentralized, where no one has the power to remove anything
    - adrianN 9y ago
      Services where no one has the power to remove anything quickly become flooded with illegal content leading to LEAs taking them down.
    - zaarn 9y ago
      The advantage of Mastodon is that people do have the power to moderate and take things down. But only on instances they are administrators off. So while I can take down illegal content on my instance I can't go to the japanese instance and ask them to stop posting all those anime girls. They follow their own rules and if I don't like them I can just not allow their content on my server. If you want to follow both my server and the japanese server you'll have to find an instance that doesn't ban either of us or run your own. (Though I trust that there are a good number of lightly administrated instances that it'll be easy to find one before you're forced to run your own)
zaarn 9y ago
For federated services that is a problem of each individual administration team. Instances may decide they'll ignore the DMCA or allow japenese content that would be illegal as CP elsewhere or don't give a damn about hackers compromising you.

kodablah 9y ago

I'm not sure many people require those to move from FB.

AlphaWeaver 9y ago
No, but some of these may be legally required in order to operate as a competitor to Facebook.
- errantmind 9y ago
  I don't think anyone is saying the alternative should operate as a business competitor to facebook. I think the idea would be for the service to be fully decentralized, where no one has the power to remove anything
  - adrianN 9y ago
    Services where no one has the power to remove anything quickly become flooded with illegal content leading to LEAs taking them down.
  - zaarn 9y ago
    The advantage of Mastodon is that people do have the power to moderate and take things down. But only on instances they are administrators off. So while I can take down illegal content on my instance I can't go to the japanese instance and ask them to stop posting all those anime girls. They follow their own rules and if I don't like them I can just not allow their content on my server. If you want to follow both my server and the japanese server you'll have to find an instance that doesn't ban either of us or run your own. (Though I trust that there are a good number of lightly administrated instances that it'll be easy to find one before you're forced to run your own)

zaarn 9y ago

For federated services that is a problem of each individual administration team. Instances may decide they'll ignore the DMCA or allow japenese content that would be illegal as CP elsewhere or don't give a damn about hackers compromising you.