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Threads is blocking servers on the Fediverse. Here's how we unblocked ourselves. | Soapbox (soapbox.pub)
submitted 11 months ago by shish_mish@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] Deceptichum@kbin.social 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)

A couple hundred servers is nothing compared to a couple hundred thousand facebook groups.

FB removed 73.3 million CSAM in the first 9 months of '22 alone, and that's only the stuff they bother to catch.

[–] 0xtero@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago

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

[–] lemann@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 months ago

73 million? Holy shit people are disgusting man