Submitted 5 weeks ago by remington@beehaw.org to technology@beehaw.org
Though this content could flourish in pockets of the fediverse, the scary scenario of prevalent child sexual abuse material is not the case. There are many moderation tools, including shared blocklists, that prevent it. However, the idea that the fediverse is full of harmful content was used by Elon Musk to justify his anti-competitive decision to block links from X to Mastodon.
Didn’t he unban someone who posted one of the worst CSAM videos know?
CSAM is a risk on any platform. I guarantee there’s private subreddits with it.
There are some public numbers on how many occurrences are found each year on the major platforms.
IIRC, Facebook deals with around 75 million reports per year. Twitter, Reddit, and others were around 20 million reports per year.
I don’t know how many are dealt with on Mastodon or Lemmy (or how you’d even get reliable numbers for that), but something tells me it’s a lot less than the bigger platforms these days.
stefenauris@pawb.social 5 weeks ago
“make it work”
It already does. I find enjoyment on this interconnected platform. Perhaps by “make it work” they mean make it work for massive monetization which is what we are trying to escape from in the first place. Not everything has to be about money!
remington@beehaw.org 5 weeks ago
The last sentence of the article clears this up.
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 4 weeks ago
Or just make it work at scale.
Lemmy at a million users would look far different than it does now.