Notices by Mayel (mayel@pub.mayel.space)

This isn't a "freeze peach" argument; I think it's *perfectly acceptable* to block other instances for having hate speech etc. What I'm saying is: it won't scale. We need another design for the long term.

Such designs exist; @emacsen and I are writing up some text, and I plan to write up some code. I realize in the meanwhile, blocklists are doing a better job than nothing. I just would like to do better.

We need anti-abuse systems, but it's impossible for instance blocklists to scale to the size the fediverse needs to grow. It's mostly working for now but won't long term.

Easy demonstration: imagine everyone self hosts, and that self hosting becomes trivial. Everyone agrees that's a good goal, right? (If you don't, maybe you don't really want the fediverse?)

In that case, it's trivial to make new instances, meaning already-overloaded administrators will be overwhelmed with "swatting flies".

"Civil rights groups have called it “perhaps the most dangerous surveillance technology ever developed”, and called for Amazon to stop selling it to government agencies, particularly police forces."

"Mr Vogels doesn’t feel it's Amazon’s responsibility to make sure Rekognition is used accurately or ethically.

“That’s not my decision to make,” he tells me."

Murky AF. I guess this kind of moral self-absolution is a necessity if you're in charge of Amazon.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-48634676