Mastodon is a Software, the stuff is hosted by others. What a idiotic, click bait and wrong headline.
It’s software that also serves as a method to distribute and access it. But ultimately, it doesn’t matter, the resulting pushback will be the same.
The conclusion of the study was basically that the biggest players should enter the fediverse in order to use their capabilities to scan and police it.
Wherever this shit exists, unwanted attention and scrutiny will follow, while the reputation of the platform will be harmed.
This will literally do nothing, the people conducting the study obviously have absolutely no idea how federation and the fediverse in general work…
And the big Players will be thrown out by everyone else, we are here because we hate them.
the people conducting the study obviously have absolutely no idea how federation and the fediverse in general work…
How do you know that?
The conclusion of the study was basically that the biggest players should enter the fediverse in order to use their capabilities to scan and police it.
Not sure if that would work as users are fleeing from those big players as they don’t prioritize the safety and needs of their users.
The contradictory problem is that current major corporations prioritize money at all costs even at the expense of their users so their customer base flee to the next best service/product provider.
People are currently abandoning Reddit and Twitter because their moderation system either doesn’t work or has underlying contradictions to what users are asking for.
Facebook launched Threads and people only joined initially due to FOMO. With how transparent they are in harvesting user data at the expense of people’s privacy I think (and hope) that people are starting to realize that this is probably not in their best interests.
I think what we’re seeing is evolutionary filtration of the web similar to natural ecosystems where the species with the highest ability to adapt that survives.
Based off of one metric it seems that companies structured around proprietary software (zero-sum systems) are unsustainable. This is my untested observation however so this could be true currently but systemically wrong once examined and tested.
So the idea that
biggest players should enter the fediverse in order to use their capabilities to scan and police it.
doesn’t seem to make the most logical sense as the foundation for those companies is untrustworthy and unsustainable.
Windows is the No. 1 OS amongst cocaine, heroine and meth dealers. Time for a crackdown.
And here we go with the corporation funded clickbait folks…
And here we go.
This will be one of the Fediverse’s biggest obstacles.
Need to get this under control somehow or else in a few years, tech companies, banks, and regulators will decide a crackdown on the fediverse as a whole is needed.
I’m afraid a blocklist won’t be enough. As anyone can just spin up an instance or move their existing one to a domain that isn’t in the blocklist yet, a centralized whitelist will be the safer solution.
I think they’re speaking from the point-of-view of an uneducated body of legislators and average people who will not understand this
It doesn’t matter what we know the nature of the fediverse to be – it matters how they perceive it, and uninformed people are perfect targets for this type of FUD
For example, the linked article exists
Far-right instances Gab and TruthSocial are also technically mastodon. By this metric mastodon also has a nazi problem.
Any software that allows people to communicate over the internet will be used by horrible people to do horrible things.
