MeanwhileOnGrad
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Meanwhile On Grad
Documenting hate-speech, conspiracy theories, apologia/revisionism, and general tankie behaviour across the fediverse
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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 or any variation of Tankie Ideology. There is no justifying Genocide.
Revisionism — Downplaying or denying atrocities past and present will result in an immediate ban.
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You got more details? Is it up on github?
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:
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.
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.
Still working on that, but I have some ideas:
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).
Web of trust sounds interesting. What language(s) are you using to build it?
Rust on backend, React frontend.
Sounds efficient. Lmk if/ when you make the repo public.
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.