Technology

That's like blaming vbulletin for Nazi forums or something.

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 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.

Would some sort of loosely organized group of instance admins help to make this happen? Like the U.N. for the fediverse? Sounds like a structured communication system would fix this.

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

"I swear, officer, I was just searching for CP to catch OTHER people!"

It would be just as pathetic as that scene from Something About Mary. "Yeah I was just going to pee, too!"

Maybe they had some kind of legal sanctioning to do it, but holy crap, I wouldn't want that in my search history. I would hope software like that has some mechanism where if people search for certain words it results in an automatic reporting to some FBI API somewhere. I actually know of a couple of people who got caught with that stuff. One got 25 years. The other jumped bail and they eventually caught him. I'm not sure if he's been sentenced yet but I bet he'll get double of what the other guy who cooperated got. Those people are creepy AF and nobody in their right mind would want to be associated with any of it. Those people are 10 times worse than neo nazis.