The Ford Digital Infrastructure Insights Fund will be funding Erin Kissane and Darius Kazemi to study how prepared the Fediverse is to face the intrinsic and extrinsic risks that come with network growth.
The Atlantic Council report linked in this post is quite interesting. For those who don’t know, the Atlantic Council is a major “think tank” which is funded by billionaires and the US government, and helps to write US foreign policy. In the report is a section about moderation on Mastodon and the Fediverse (from page 124). However the report only talks about moderation in terms of fighting “disinformation”. Other things like moderating trolls, spammers or racists are completely ignored.
The Atlantic Council report linked in this post is quite interesting. For those who don’t know, the Atlantic Council is a major “think tank” which is funded by billionaires and the US government, and helps to write US foreign policy. In the report is a section about moderation on Mastodon and the Fediverse (from page 124). However the report only talks about moderation in terms of fighting “disinformation”. Other things like moderating trolls, spammers or racists are completely ignored.
There’s an associated fediverse deep dive report, Annex 5: Collective Security in a Federated World (PDF).
I posted about it two months ago: