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The #federation model is effectively collaborative #moderation. The behaviour of every individual is too hard to track, but the limits of what a particular server considers permissible is more easily discovered. A user can pick an instance based not only on their own instance's limits, but how their instance handles federation with instances with significantly different limits.
Importantly, this model includes transparency and accountability. By contrast, shared blocklists address the scalability problem, but do so entirely without accountability. One of the largest shared blocklists on Twitter systematically blocks trans people, especially trans women. This list came about as a way to address the non-moderation of Twitter, but then, without accountability, became a tool furthering inequality and invisibilising marginalised people. What in scuttlebutt prevents this?
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@celesteh It is not blockchain-like, as there is no central log. Every user has their own log, and you replicate only the logs relevant to your circle. You can set the friend-of-friend depth to replicate. If you go to deep you may get nazis, if you go to shallow, you see ghost conversations.
Work is being done to make this more fine-grained, like follow this person but ignore their follows.
ssb-ooo (out of ... I want to say "band" but no :-) ... order?) is in the works to get single messages without having the complete log, so you can fill in ghost convos.
Bus basically ssb works on the idea that blacklists are hopeless, so use whitelists. Trade discoverability for signal.
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@celesteh So your "site admins" are those you follow. If they agree with you what makes an idiot, and they block an idiot as soon as they see them, you won't see any.
Charles 𝄢 Hutchins
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