Running a server for other people is definitely not a responsibility to be taken lightly! This post really influenced my thinking about that https://
ashfurrow.com/blog/mastodon-
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Server Administration Responsibility in Decentralized Technology
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Mastodon Moderation Scale and Server Covenant Standards
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My hunch is the Mastodon moderation scheme should scale well – there have been alt-right Mastodon instances for years now (Gab and Truth Social both use it) and most of the reputable servers just straight up block them See also the Mastodon covenant: https://
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Mastodon Moderation Strategy: Six Years of Careful Platform Governance
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Depends on your server and who you follow: I've had no problems at all but I'm not exactly in a demographic that gets harassed first! They've been thinking about moderation carefully for 6 years. This interview with the founder has useful thoughts on that https://
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Mastodon Privacy: No Analytics Tracking Implementation
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There is genuinely no way of telling – Mastodon not only avoids implementing those kinds of analytics, it puts rel="noreferrer" on links so external analytics tools can't see it either
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Mastodon Privacy Settings Superior to Twitter Scraping Capabilities
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Masrodon has more fine-grained privacy settings than Twitter. Can‘t scrape all.
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New Security Analysis Tool for Deployment Best Practices
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We know that data is one of the most valuable assets. That's why we've built security into every layer Now, we're excited to introduce Security Analysis Tool, which enables customers to review current deployments against our security best practices https://
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Critique d’un article sur la surveillance gouvernementale
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Critique d'un article sur la surveillance gouvernementale Title in English: Critique of an Article on Government Surveillance Note: The URL provided appears to be incomplete or improperly formatted. The text content from the article is not included in your request, only a URL reference. To provide a complete translation of the article text, please provide the full content you wish to have translated.
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Mastodon Server Moderation and Harmful Content Federation Blocking
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Since I'm running my own Mastadon server I can block federation with any server I come across that is a home to unmoderated harmful content
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ML Privacy Risks Beyond Verbatim Memorization Research
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Nice paper (ft @daphneipp @florian_tramer @katherine1ee +more) that argues looking at verbatim memorization is inadequate when considering ML privacy risks It also has the most interesting author ordering I've ever seen. So much for alphabetical or random https://
arxiv.org/abs/2210.17546