Besides mod logs, is there a better way for the Fediverse to keep track of malicious actors, such as Kiwi farms members, Nazi apologists, and genocide deniers?
Besides mod logs, is there a better way for the Fediverse to keep track of malicious actors, such as Kiwi farms members, Nazi apologists, and genocide deniers?
It’s best to look out for their tactics rather than individuals. Nothing stops someone from making a new account once they get known to be a KF or /pol/ troll.
Kiwi farms?
Kiwi Farms, is a web forum that facilitates the discussion and harassment of online figures and communities. Their targets are often subject to organized group trolling and stalking, as well as doxing and real-life harassment. Kiwi Farms has been tied to the suicides of three people who were victims of harassment by the website.
From urban dictionary:
A website full of cynics who yearn for the approval of those around them, and anonymously harrass people online for not conforming to their community's beliefs, which they themselves have religiously adopted.
"Boy ol' gosh golly, I sure do love going onto Kiwi Farms and laughing at autists and liberals!"
Trust built up over a long time through well moderated communities is my bet.
But with no karma system, and not even any popular extensions for keeping track of users, how do you keep track of "trust built up over a long time"? That's literally what karma was for, and the Lemmy devs removed that extremely valuable feature.
I meant more like trust in communities and admins. If you can trust that the admins and moderators will do their task well, you shouldn't have to worry about keeping track of these users yourself.
Karma in the style of reddit is not and has never been a great proxy for whether a user is "good" or "bad". It mostly just says something about how active a user is and for how long they have been active, and how much they agree with the hivemind. Agreeing with the hivemind is not necessarily the criteria you want, as that just leads to more echo chamber situations.
Mod logs aren‘t necessarily a good tool to keep track of bad actors either because you don‘t know the mods. I think someone would have to have a lot of entries from several communities for me to even raise an eyebrow. It‘s tough.
Prob a comm in the line of !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works , but expanded beyond just Tankies/Genocide deniers. Somewhere for people to post collected documentation, screenshots, modlog entries etc. and collaboration
I fear that would rapidly decline into a shitshow as not everyone here is rational or educated in the subjects being discussed. I can easily see this being used abusively
I hope those malicious actors are not keeping track of us!
They are with FISC court orders.
A bit more powerful than a Pub/Sub or RSS feed.
I think maintaining mirrors and archives are important. It would be preferable to work with site admins but no one technically needs permission to web scrape so long as you do it respectfully and without causing service interruptions.