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It’s also a matter of scale. FB has 3 billion users and it’s all centralized. They are able to police that. Their Trust and Safety team is large (which has its own problems, because they outsource that - but that’s another story). The fedi is somewhere around 11M (according to fedidb.org).
The federated model doesn’t really “remove” anything, it just segregates the network to “moderated, good instances” and “others”.

I don’t think most fedi admins are actually following the law by reporting CSAM to the police (because that kind of thing requires a lot resources), they just remove it from their servers and defederate. Bottom line is that the protocols and tools built to combat CSAM don’t work too well in the context of federated networks - we need new tools and new reporting protocols.

Reading the Stanford Internet Observatory report on fedi CSAM gives a pretty good picture of the current situation, it is fairly fresh:
https://cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/io/news/addressing-child-exploitation-federated-social-media

This is a good start: https://cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/io/news/addressing-child-exploitation-federated-social-media

I find it interesting that Meta Platforms, Inc., a company known for harvesting user data, is blocking some servers from fetching its public posts. They decided to implement a feature Mastodon calls Authorized fetch.

This was always going to happen. They will block agressively, because they can’t have their precious advertising money mixed with CSAM, nazis and other illegal content. And the fedi is full of that.

I’ve been using Debian since 1.3. Haven’t really ever needed anything else.
I did “experiment” a bit when the decision to go with systemd was taken, but in the end, most distros went with it and it really isn’t that big deal for me.

So it’s just Debian. I need a computer that works.

How is Lando higher than Rovanperä? WTF? What championship did he win? Or better… did he actually win anything at all this year?

Gates is probably just as bad and evil as the global 0.1%:er billionaire cabal members come, but that site gave me a crackpot conspiracy brainrot.

It’s wild that a site with hundreds of millions of users, didn’t invest into multiple-account deletion tools.
True start-up mentality, that one.

Just shows how our “critical” social media is really just some hasty tape and bubblegum behind the scenes to keep the front from falling apart.

Simo Häyhä has entered the chat.

Local mail client (Thunderbid) -> IMAP/POP -> sync.
Once done, move to a local folder and delete from Gmail.
You can just backup the Thunderbird profile, if you want to keep the mails safe

He can touch deeznuts

Serving my car with 3rd party parts is stealing?

Yeah, and as the article links, this is just not about media, CDs, DVDs and games. It’s also about very physical products that we immediately associate as “owned” - like printers, phones, cars, tractors or even, (lol) trains. They’re all locked to manufacturers parts and repair services and increasingly difficult to circumvent.

Get a physical copy that doesn’t require internet activation then, assholes.

I think the point was, it is increasingly hard to find such products.
And even once you think you’ve bought such product, DRM makes sure it’s still not really yours.

But this is America, they still use checks…
They’re so controlled by their corporations.

Vironlainen tuli, vaikka kovasti yritin torjua kahvilla ja metallilla. Lihan, viinan ja uskonnon puutteet varmaan pudotti pisteet.

Everyone should skip COP28. It’s just a scam.

But at least MKBHD tried to say nice things about it in his video. He really tried.

Yes, because the last two years have been so full of fantastically good news.

Yeah this outcome was completely out of the blue.

Ah ok, well LUKS in that case I guess