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Meanwhile On Grad

Documenting hate speech, conspiracy theories, apologia/revisionism, and general tankie behaviour across the fediverse. Memes are welcome!

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Sh.itjust.works Instance rules apply! If you are from other instances, please be mindful of the rules. — Basically, don't be a dick.

Hate-Speech — You should be familiar with this one already; practically all instances have the same rules on hate speech.

Apologia — (Using the Modern terminology for Apologia) No Defending, Denying, Justifying, Bolstering, or Differentiating authoritarian acts or endeavours, whether be a Pro-CCP viewpoint, Stalinism, Islamic Terrorism or any variation of Tankie Ideology.

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Lead Lemmy Developer, Dessalines, denying the Tiananmen Square Massacre and praising the Uyghur Genocide (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Not yet, but I'll definitely post something when I get to a point where I'm ready to share the code. I definitely want it to be open source, I just want enough functionality there so the long term vision is clear.

But here's some details of what I'm trying to achieve:

web of trust-based moderation - no "mods," only metadata from people you trust (upvotes, downvotes, blocks, etc)
all storage on devices of users of the service - the more storage you provide, the better your experience; your preferred communities have first priority, but everyone stores something random from the service
text posts only, at least to start - images/videos need to be hosted elsewhere

I'm building it initially as a desktop app, but I'll port it later to mobile and maybe web (still trying to figure out how web would work; maybe some notion of instances?).

I'm hoping to bridge to lemmy with an ActivityPub service to get content, but I'm not working on that until the above is ready.

[–] PutangInaMo@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Web of trust sounds interesting. What language(s) are you using to build it?

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Rust on backend, React frontend.

[–] PutangInaMo@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Sounds efficient. Lmk if/ when you make the repo public.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

Sure thing. I'll probably make a post about it once I nail down the functionality and start looking for people to help out with UX and features and whatnot.

[–] ThePinkUnicorn@lemdro.id 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This sounds interesting, but how do you plan on stopping illegal content being stored on users devices? If there is any chance a user could unknowingly be hosting illegal content that could lead to some very big issues.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago

Still working on that, but I have some ideas:

text only - images, videos, and other binary content must be stored elsewhere (could still have links though)
data is stored encrypted (user option) - wouldn't show up in scans
clear separation between "stuff I'm interested in" and "random stuff I'm hosting for the network" - plausible deniability
perhaps an option to opt out of random data storage - you'd still store stuff you're interested in

But yeah, that's a huge part of why I'm unwilling to share the code until I'm comfortable with the moderation engine. I think there's an opportunity to use that moderation engine to reduce storage of CSAM (i.e. don't store data from blocked users).