@inherentlee@strangeobject.space @inthehands @paulkruczynski I do this in some cases, but not in others, bc when I'm widely boosted, it always results in more of the exact same tedious chiding and I don't want to bring that into anyone else's life—so idk, idk.
@kissane @inherentlee @paulkruczynski
Does Mastodon support any form of shared blocklists? One thing that might help here is to develop, for example, a list of people who keep posting emotionally exhausting replies to Black people that never quite rise to the moderation threshold for account suspension, and then make subscribing to that blocklist a part of an ally-supported onboarding process for newcomers.
shared blocklists are being built at #TheBadSpace -- I wonder if "poster is in bad faith towards marginalized people" is something that's worth federating there too
@trochee
It seems like one could get a great head start on this by having a few dozen high-traffic accounts privately share exports of which individuals they’ve blocked, and then publish a list of accounts that appear on x% of those lists.
I strongly suspect it’s a power law distribution thing where a small number of users are a huge fraction of the problem.
I think that is actually how #TheBadSpace does its computation as well, and agree that the Tier-0 bad actors are the great majority of the problem.
the 80-20 rule will get you a long way; systematic blocking/defederation of the noisiest 20% of these bad actors and you'll probably reduce the overall volume by 80%
but the challenge is still at onboarding -- how to make sure that most new people come in to spaces which are already well-modded
@inthehands @kissane @inherentlee @paulkruczynski Technically, you could import a CSV of accounts to block, assuming someone maintained such a thing, but it's a really janky solution. I think the nature of federation means something considerably more accessible needs to float up the priority.
@kissane @inherentlee @inthehands Heard. We're all looking for ways to protect our communities and that is hard.
Appreciating the expression "Tedious chiding"! That is such a good description of that vibe!