Post AkTx2x0W7IkTDXeP4q by hrefna@hachyderm.io
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 (DIR) Post #AkTx2odtDXtZH30DhI by hrefna@hachyderm.io
       2024-07-30T09:15:47Z
       
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       Something important that @inthehands is talking about here:It's going beyond blocklists. There are so many things we can do that aren't blocklists, and certainly aren't consensus blocklists.Quarantine is such an obvious and simple step and a time honored tradition for tackling these sorts of problems. As is a keyword embargo: require moderator review before posts with certain keywords make it through from people who aren't being followed, or equivalents thereof.https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/112872266316450280
       
 (DIR) Post #AkTx2rOOzaHznsmOTQ by hrefna@hachyderm.io
       2024-07-30T09:24:48Z
       
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       Aside: None of these ideas are especially new:* Quarantining new interactions was asked for in 2022: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/21536* Reply controls have been asked for since at least 2020: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/14762 * Approval-required-by-default was asked for in 2019: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/10590* Disable replies was asked for in 2018: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/8565* Mutuals only has been asked for since at least 2017: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/422
       
 (DIR) Post #AkTx2uJY85BqrhX3pI by hrefna@hachyderm.io
       2024-07-30T15:15:09Z
       
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       Now that I've slept, a followup on what it would take for ideas like these to happen. A few different ways: 1. Ping mastodon as a project and either implement the feature for them or advocate that they prioritize solving it.2. Encourage other projects to come up with a strategy and implementation for it.3. Support developers who are working in these spaces.4. Demand this feature from your _admins_. Encourage them to do the above three. 5. Don't treat blocklists as the end all, be all.
       
 (DIR) Post #AkTx2x0W7IkTDXeP4q by hrefna@hachyderm.io
       2024-07-30T15:21:13Z
       
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       But breaking outside of the realm of safety features, I'd also like to highlight a few other things* Despite AP in many ways being a research protocol it is _not well suited_ to experiments in this space. We need to buckle down and do hard work on the protocol, but that means _making tradeoffs that historically have made people on the fediverse very angry_. Help provide space for people doing this work, or help with doing this work yourself* A lot of projects other than Mastodon need support