Y'know, I think people like the Jimmy Truths dude serve as an example of the shortcomings of #Fediverse moderation. This dude has likely made like, hundreds of accounts on dozens of instances, but all the instance owners can do is suspend his account. It's gotten to the point where the dude now keeps coming back with usernames and posts mocking the admins for being unable to permanently remove him, often on the same instance repeatedly.
Larger companies can do things like send cease and desist letters, contact his ISP, hardware ban him, etc a lot easier. They simply have more resources to deal with really tenacious harassers than the average instance admin does. I'm not a networking expert, but I wish there was a way to actually deal with guys like this because as the Fediverse grows in popularity, it's likely more users like this guy will crop up.
I can imagine it being pretty easy for bad actors to focus their attention on a single instance and overwhelm it if there's enough of them. Or people like this dude so persistent and obnoxious that it wears the often volunteer staff down over a long stretch of time.
There seriously needs to be focus put on improving moderation tools for Mastodon before we get to that point.
Talon
in reply to Luigi.exe (Dragonheart System) • • •Not like we haven't been asking for better mod tools for many, many years at this point... but I guess quote posts and algorithms and rewrites of apps and starter packs like Bluesky are more important than mod tools to deal with abuse.
Luigi.exe (Dragonheart System)
in reply to Talon • • •@talon Yeah, I've seen some posts complaining about the sheer lack of moderation tools, and I agree that it's a serious issue.
Like, small instances with very few staff members need to have the tools to deal with targeted raids, ban-evasion, illegal content, etc.
Talon
in reply to Luigi.exe (Dragonheart System) • • •