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This sounds pretty interesting, but is it a lot of work to moderate a home server yourself? > You are the home server, so no one can control what you see. We c

by mcintyre1994 6y ago

This sounds pretty interesting, but is it a lot of work to moderate a home server yourself? > You are the home server, so no one can control what you see. We call this user sovereignty I’m wondering what I’d have to do to just bare minimum make sure no illegal content gets onto any hardware that I own. Just to use the obvious extreme example, I don’t want to see any illegal pornography, which in addition to not wanting to see I’d have to report to authorities, which I’d presumably have to explain the presence of, which I’m guessing worst case involves them confiscating my devices for some time. There’s a practical benefit to me in having some middle manager taking responsibility for making sure that never gets to my network.

ollo 6y ago
I would like to know this as well. If it is clear how to do so, I'd gladly join.
- rolleiflex 6y ago
  I responded to the parent, sending this over as a notification: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23694615 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23694615
rolleiflex 6y ago
All the content on Aether is text — it's pretty hard (but not impossible) to make text illegal. Of course what is on your computer is your responsibility, nothing changes that. There is a SFW list enabled by default that only shows the 'safe' communities to you in the app, but your app still communicates everything as of today. However, this is actually the most common feature request we have right now, an ability to block certain communities from transmitting. We are converting the SFW list to a 'filter lists' feature, much like adblock filter lists. These lists can be whitelists or blacklists, and they will be able to control not just visibility, but also the receiving and transmittance of content as well. So the expected behaviour is that if a community is in your blacklist, your computer will never fetch that content from that community by checking against its fingerprint. That should be helpful to solve this issue. We'll be providing a default whitelist as well.

ollo 6y ago

I would like to know this as well. If it is clear how to do so, I'd gladly join.

rolleiflex 6y ago
I responded to the parent, sending this over as a notification: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23694615 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23694615

rolleiflex 6y ago

All the content on Aether is text — it's pretty hard (but not impossible) to make text illegal. Of course what is on your computer is your responsibility, nothing changes that. There is a SFW list enabled by default that only shows the 'safe' communities to you in the app, but your app still communicates everything as of today. However, this is actually the most common feature request we have right now, an ability to block certain communities from transmitting. We are converting the SFW list to a 'filter lists' feature, much like adblock filter lists. These lists can be whitelists or blacklists, and they will be able to control not just visibility, but also the receiving and transmittance of content as well. So the expected behaviour is that if a community is in your blacklist, your computer will never fetch that content from that community by checking against its fingerprint. That should be helpful to solve this issue. We'll be providing a default whitelist as well.