well, you know how i said it’s almost certain mastodon has tonnes of horrible content but you just don’t see it because of how anti-discovery it’s architecture is?
https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/24/23806093/mastodon-csam-study-decentralized-network
i don’t know how so many mastodonners convinced themselves that moderation was better here than bluesky or whatever when /there’s few staff or T&S teams/
just because the stewards of mastodon made decisions to make content hard to find, and convinced everyone it was going to prevent bad actors doesn’t mean that actually works
communities are made of and protected by people, not anti-social measures that hide their underbellies
it’s so gross and horrible that this stuff is so prevalent on mastodon
that quote “We got more photoDNA hits in a two-day period than we’ve probably had in the entire history of our organization of doing any kind of social media analysis, and it’s not even close”
i hope this is the wake up call this community needs to stop doing that “the others are worse” nonsense that stops people from seeing the cracks in your own house (c.f., when people say ‘america guns’ to cover up their own countries shit)
and the thing that the snooty arseholes here don’t acknowledge us on bluesky, there’s people to shout at. people to lobby. what are you gonna do here? shout at the dev? they designed this system this way on purpose! people have been shouting!!
bing bing bing
https://ioc.exchange/@vortex_egg/110771685533553649 The mastodon csam wapo discourse in here is exhausting. If the problem exists on your software protocol network, it still exists even if you defederate from it. People point at nostr and bsky (at least in theory) as having the same culpability but when it’s mastodon it’s suddenly somebody else’s problem. This is externalization of harms. Fix your shit.
like so far the discourse on bsky troubles is “i can’t believe you didn’t do this earlier” but mastodon boosters identity is in being better and being “not twitter” rather than community building, and so the emotional response is “it’s up to server admins” or “what can mastodon do, it’s federated”
such a low bar for what’s expected, of course shit like this is gonna happen!
tbf it’s fresh news but i’ve already run into a decent amount of comments with this sentiment