Post #2107328
2026-05-04 10:30 UTC
Aside from the ethical implications of profiling users or of using a corporatly owned server and model to execute this, I see nothing uniquely concerning about this practice that isnt already a risk of federated social media generally.
Every mod on every instance is free to use whatever tools or standards for moderation they want - that’s an intentional byproduct of federation. Similarly, the collection of this data for use with llms is a bygone conclusion at this point - there was never any way of preventing that from happening with a federated network.
I think the only thing here to talk about is the way these questions are being framed as a question of intra-instance policy. We already have communities where moderation abuse can be called out and adjudicated- why pose this as a question of instance administration when there doesnt seem to be any evidence for it?
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@ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 2026-05-04 13:23
these questions are being framed as a question of intra-instance policy I think this is just more of the ongoing controversy being spun up against db0. This weeks flavor appears to be more data driven, a ‘just asking questions’ phase. I guess in hope the whole ‘falsifying evidence to make db0 users look like neo-nazis’ thing blows over. Like it’s clear there’s an effort to rid db0 from the fediverse, and it’s just the pretext hasn’t been sorted out yet.