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For the love of god, when you report another user, describe the issue!

Yes, even if you've attached posts.
Yes, even if you think it's obvious.

And if you haven't reported any specific posts, and haven't described the issue, how do you expect us to do anything about it?

Also, keep in mind: if we suspend an account, their posts will be deleted after 30 days. Thanks to some genius at Mastodon gGmbH, they are not retained with the ticket for review purposes, not even links to the original posts. So if we later want to review why a certain account was suspended, that's a lot harder when the reporting user didn't send a description of the problem.

So for fuck's sake, use that text field! Please!

Trade offer:
We receive: description of your report
You receive: moderation

(This post represents the personal opinion of the author and is not an official statement, endorsed by, or representative of the collective opinion of the Eldritch Café moderation team.)

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Me in 2019: Let’s run an InfoSec and a regional Mastodon instance - Should be FUN!

Me today: Discussing whether reported accounts are russian troll bots and how far these election-influencing operations would go. “Do you really think they use a (virtual) iOS device, tunnel that to Hamburg, and then activate the Apple privacy network..?”

Good Luck to all the #mastomod and #mastoadmin !!!

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There is a big fucking bug in Mastodon's moderation features.

When I as a moderator suspend a remote account...

Expected behavior: The account can no longer be found or interacted with on our server and the account can't find or interact with accounts on our server.

Actual behavior: the account can still be found but is empty. there is a notice that the account is suspended and there is even still a follow button - it just doesn't do anything.
And the account can still see everything from our instance and interact with our posts. 🤯 Our users just won't reciprocate the interaction, because the reply won't appear here.
But if someone else replies to a reply from the suspended account we'll see that reply, but won't know what original post it belongs to.

Is this a new bug with Mastodon 4.3 or has it always been like that?
I've been moderating for 5 years now and this is new to me.

I'm not going to create an account on Microsoft™️ Github to officially file this bug report, but can someone tell me if it's already reported and what's the status? Thanks.

Additional ideal expected behavior: Previous replies to any of our posts by the suspended account won't be seen by anyone anywhere on the Fediverse - or at least not as replies to our posts, because our instance notifies/federates all other instances that these replies shouldn't be there.

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I've spoken at length over my belief that the fediverse is at a size where it can't survive without some sort of automated or semi-automated moderation tools (eldritch.cafe/@amberage/tagged).

It's basically email: tons of providers (instances) that send messages to each other (posts, follows, etc), and there is no guaranteed standard of moderation for all of them. Malicious actors can spin up their own or abuse existing ones.

We've seen that in the recent spam waves, i.e. "kuroneko" and the weekly spam waves from mastodon.social.

That is, in the long run, more than volunteers can handle. So there needs to be some automated solution to detect and contain spam.

The API does not support that at present.

It has to.

Eldritch CaféMx Amber Alex (she/it) (@amberage@eldritch.cafe)59.7K Posts, 201 Following, 459 Followers · The transsexual dyke your liberal columnists warned you about. Part-time woman, full-time nuisance. May contain traces of neurodivergence. Cisn't. Now you say ‘pronouns in bio’ because you have no other jokes. Anti-fascism. Intersectional & queer feminism. Prison abolition. Liberation for all. International solidarity. I've been around long enough to see every discourse several times over, so spare me the bullshit. Thank fuck not American. Moderator. she/it Speaks EN/DE
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You still can't automatically limit instances if tons of repetitive posts come from there, or flag new accounts for manual review if they post rapidly or spam follow requests or replies…

…but the "reports" section has a new icon and the radio buttons for the report reason don't have a background colour anymore!

ARE YOU FEELING SERVICED YET, FANS?

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Im Fediverse treibt seit einigen Wochen ein Nazi sein Unwesen, der immer wieder auf verschiedenen Mastodon-Instanzen Accounts anlegt, um einen bestimmten Wissenschaftler mit Hassnachrichten zu überziehen.

Mods, Admins und andere Fediwesen reagieren hierauf teils gar nicht, teils hilflos. Das muss sich ändern! Darum ein paar Hinweise:

• User: Meldet Hassnachrichten *mit Weiterleitung an die ursprüngliche Instanz*! Ihr müsst keine Angst haben: Die Admins und Mods der anderen Instanzen sehen nicht, von wem die Meldung kommt, sondern nur, von welcher Instanz.

• Moderator:innen: Auch wenn ihr meint, dass ein Tröt von der Meinungsfreiheit gedeckt ist – seht euch auch den Kontext an! Wenn der Tröt Teil einer Hetzkampagne ist, solltet ihr evt. doch dagegen vorgehen.

• Admins: Instanzen, die nicht gegen Hass oder andere kriminelle Inhalte vorgehen, könnt ihr stummschalten oder deföderieren. Um eure User vor Belästigung zu schützen, hilft oft schon das Stummschalten (Limitieren).

#mastoadmin #mastomod #FediMods /c

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Question: a desktop software that queries the public Mastodon API to provide an overview of an instance (about page, rules, admin account, user count, moderated instances) – would that have any scraping / block circumventing concerns?

This would be without access token and such, so authorised fetch, disallow public API access, etc. would prevent fetching any information. And all of this is publicly available information that can be queried from /api/v1/instance without requiring authorization (by default). Basically, nothing you couldn't find by going to instance.example/about.

Any privacy/block concerns I'm missing?

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We're looking for more ways to get people involved in our Communities.

Alongside our pilot volunteer Community Curation project, we've launched Community 'About Screens'. Here, you can see more about the Community, including who shapes it.

At the moment, all About Screens are a blank canvas but if you're interested in changing that, get in touch at volunteer@newsmast.org.

Please boost 🧡

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Anyway! Things I'd like to see in the Mastodon moderation backend:

The ability to filter reports by which ones already have a moderator assigned to them and by which language the reported posts, if any, are in.

This would help make distributing the workload more efficient, as (depending on how many tickets are outstanding), moderators wouldn't have to search for reports in their language that are still unassigned. It would be a small quality of life improvement that would pay dividends especially for larger instances with very multilingual moderation teams.

These mock-ups are far from perfect, since as I mentioned I can't screenshot dropdowns, but whatever.

The options are:

Status:

  • All
  • Moderator assigned
  • No moderator assigned

Post language:

  • English, French, etc. (dynamically filled)
  • Unspecified
  • No posts attached
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A little praise though: with 4.3, reports that were forwarded via the new also-send-to-related-third-servers feature have a little explanatory banner:

This report is from a remote user and about remote content. It has been forwarded to you because the reported content is in reply to one of your users.

That's actually good and helpful.