Enforcing New Rules to Reduce Hateful Conduct and Abusive Behavior

Re:Enforcing New Rules to Reduce Hateful Conduct and Abusive... by tsunamifury on Monday December 18, 2017 @02:05PM (#15954349)

Meaningless until they enforce this with their star contributors. Otherwise it's just further enforcing a set of rules for stars and another for everyone else.

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Re:Enforcing New Rules to Reduce Hateful Conduct and Abusive... by vorotato on Monday December 18, 2017 @02:20PM (#15954503)

Yep the verified check was simply a way to impose class distinction. You should hit up Mastodon/GnuSocial.

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Re:Enforcing New Rules to Reduce Hateful Conduct and Abusive... by anonbanker on Monday December 18, 2017 @03:26PM (#15955148)

Be wary of Mastodon for their Embrace/Extend of GNU Social, as well as their banning of entire chunks of the federated network.

Find a good GNU Social site, and bask in the freedom. it feels like Twitter when it first started.

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Re:Enforcing New Rules to Reduce Hateful Conduct and Abusive... by xena on Monday December 18, 2017 @04:08PM (#15955524)

Honestly a lot of that happened because of the people that caused the twitter rules changes tried to shit up ostatus.

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Re:Enforcing New Rules to Reduce Hateful Conduct and Abusive... by vorotato on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @03:02PM (#15963687)

You can call it freedom, others call it chaos. The important thing is that you have a choice. Some servers are judicious with who they federate with, others are very open, and I think it's good that you can choose.

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Re:Enforcing New Rules to Reduce Hateful Conduct and Abusive... by tscs37 on Monday December 18, 2017 @04:02PM (#15955479)

Atleast, unlike on Twitter, you have a choice about this.

If you don't like the rules of the red team (Mastodon) you can check out the blue team (GNU Social) or start your own team (or join the Japanese team)

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Re:Enforcing New Rules to Reduce Hateful Conduct and Abusive... by detaro on Monday December 18, 2017 @04:04PM (#15955495)

Does Mastodon roll out these bans coordinated across the federated instances?

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Re:Enforcing New Rules to Reduce Hateful Conduct and Abusive... by TheDong on Monday December 18, 2017 @05:09PM (#15955967)

The administrators of popular mastodon instances share "block lists" manually. That's the level of coordination.

Shared lists:

https://github.com/tootcafe/blocked-instances

https://github.com/MastodonBlocklist/blocklist

https://github.com/ticki/mastodon-blacklist

and others

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Re:Enforcing New Rules to Reduce Hateful Conduct and Abusive... by vorotato on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @03:06PM (#15963716)

No, it's instance by instance. You will see some amount of cooperation, but it's not enforced by any means just a cultural norm created by the twitter refugees to mastodon. GnuSocial has a bit of a libertarian bent, Mastodon instances have a bit of a leftist bent, and of course there's the instances which are both, so it's not really a binary but rather a spectrum. Yes Libertarian and left surprisingly to many are not mutually exclusive.

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Re:Enforcing New Rules to Reduce Hateful Conduct and Abusive... by RunningDroid on Monday December 18, 2017 @04:54PM (#15955868)

The bans don't appear to be copied from one instance to another by the software, if that's what you're asking.

What the previous poster was likely referring to is the 5-10¹ instances that are banned by most other instances with the reason "allows controversial content" or "Free speech zone"².

¹: the number banned varies from instance to instance, but it tends to be the same ones.

²: this one was used by an "anarchist" instance that appears to have more rules than most other instances.

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