The fediverse promises an egalitarian, noncommercial alternative to Big Tech for social media, but there’s a lot of work needed to make it work.
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“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!
The last sentence of the article clears this up.
Right, as an instance admin, I’m very confident I can avoid Facebook’s mistakes. I don’t have the same motivations.
Or just make it work at scale.
Lemmy at a million users would look far different than it does now.
Didn’t he unban someone who posted one of the worst CSAM videos known?
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.
In the four years that I’ve been an admin here I’ve only seen one CSAM case. I don’t want to see another one. It was very difficult dealing with it on a personal level.
I’m very sorry for you. People might not realize how traumatizing having to deal with it can be. It definitely shouldn’t be the responsibility of people without proper support or training.
We have heard of some here and there. The biggest problem is instances with open signups, they’re the ones that tend to get CSAM. That and instances that see nothing wrong with ‘lolicon’.