I understand and there’s a reason I am not applying to do it myself. It’s not easy. This platform is growing really quickly so it’s not easy to keep up with.
Sadly seems to be a common problem in social media platforms. Twitter became way worse at dealing with CSAM under Musk, and Instagram looks like it’s literally putting in no effort at all to combat it either.
I used to mod some fairly big communities on one of my Reddit alts and every now and then the spam filter would remove some post or comment linking to CP. Possibly the only compliment I have of Reddit at this point is that their spam filtering seems to work decently well.
I’ve seen straight up racist and pedophilic posts on this community. They need more moderators or something. The posts did get removed which is good
We are trying our best. Unfortunately we are people with life’s and we can’t be there 24/7.
I understand and there’s a reason I am not applying to do it myself. It’s not easy. This platform is growing really quickly so it’s not easy to keep up with.
So get more mods
I have made a post doing that.
What about Ai flagging? Not to make final judgements but to quarantine posts until reviewed or just raise a flag on suspicious ones?
This article seems to suggest that:
https://gizmodo.com.au/2023/07/mastodon-has-a-child-abuse-material-problem-like-every-other-major-web-platform/
The good news is that the fediverse doesn’t seem any worse than centralised platforms, but we could do better.
Sadly seems to be a common problem in social media platforms. Twitter became way worse at dealing with CSAM under Musk, and Instagram looks like it’s literally putting in no effort at all to combat it either.
I used to mod some fairly big communities on one of my Reddit alts and every now and then the spam filter would remove some post or comment linking to CP. Possibly the only compliment I have of Reddit at this point is that their spam filtering seems to work decently well.
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