Post #1147702

Contrary to seemingly popular belief, FediMod FIRES and the protocol I created for it is so much more than just "blocklist synchronisation" It's designed to give moderation teams choice in what they pull from providers and how that's applied to their server. It's designed to give finer-grained moderation control than "silence or suspend" across a wide array of entities. Thinking of FediMod FIRES as just a blocklist synchronisation tool is like thinking of a computer as a just a modern typewriter. Sure you can just do what that original thing did, but it's capable of so much more. For example, it's possible to share moderation data on individual bad actors and also on email domains (currently not in the shipped version but pretty straightforward to add). In the future it'll also support more entity types like Hashtags, Links, and possibly image hashes. Domain blocks are just the tip of the iceberg of what FediMod FIRES can do.