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This has nothing to do with Lemmy, but more with any social media that is just open to the general public. Ask the moderator teams of Facebook, what they encoun
by rapnie 8mo ago
This has nothing to do with Lemmy, but more with any social media that is just open to the general public. Ask the moderator teams of Facebook, what they encounter day to day. Many of these poor folks work in shitty job conditions and burn out leaving with PTSD.
If you spin up a fediverse app like Lemmy, you spin up a platform. It is platform software. And you get the responsibility, but also the opportunity, to set that up well. Curate the content in your instance. Lemmy and any other fediverse apps comes with a set of moderation tools that allow you to handle this, and there is a strong focus in the developer community to improve them on a continual basis.
- pousada 8mo ago> Curate the content in your instance How do i do that without getting PTSD as well? Or is there some magic method that works without me looking at CSAM and gore constantly?
- cindyllm 8mo ago[dead]
- simlevesque 8mo agoWhitelist instead of blacklist seems like it would work.
- AlecSchueler 8mo agoHow do you know what you can whitelist without looking at it?
- cyberge99 8mo agoOnly allow trusted people to upload your content.
- AlecSchueler 8mo agoBut how do you know who you can trust?
- tetris11 8mo agoA cursory look through someone's post history. If a 6-day old account making highly voted posts and no comments? Bot, part of a botnet (check who upvoted, and purge as neccesary). 6 month old account, combination of high and low effort comments? Does not emit hatred with every fibre of their being? Appears to understand debate? Rational human, trust. You do it on case-by-case basis and slowly increase your trust network
- AlecSchueler 8mo ago> A cursory look through someone's post history Thus reopening yourself to the trauma of viewing CSAM.
- boxedemp 8mo agoDeny by default, allowlist per account. That's what lemmy.ca is doing, you have to apply for an account. This is speculation; they may look at ips and other fingerprint data to determine if they accept your acc application.
- virgil_disgr4ce 8mo agoWhitelist what?
- rao-v 8mo agoWe’re probably a year from self hostable video LLM models that can identify sexual content etc. with high sensitivity (but probably poor specificity)
- WD-42 8mo agoThis is a huge ask. Most of us are just nerds that find the technical aspects interesting, a hobby during our spare time.
- abdullahkhalids 8mo agoIf you create an open club for your hobby in real life, you will also get weirdos joining your group. These people will commit minor offenses like disturb others and serious offenses like sexually harass someone. A club that includes teens will, with non-zero probability, share porn with each other, or even "inappropriate" pictures/videos of their peers - the latter of which is a very serious crime. You can avoid this in both real life and or the internet by making very closed clubs in which only very trusted people are added.
- ehnto 8mo agoIt's a good time to mention Safe Harbor laws, because not every country has them and so not every person can host something like this without taking on personal liability for what travels through or rests on the "platform".