Post #2290797

2026-03-26 12:57 UTC

@thisismissem@hachyderm.io I took a quick look at it and there are two things I'm wondering about: Can this already integrate with Mastodon's FASP? If not, is that planed?How are identities of moderated actors/instances as well as the moderating instances protected? As far as I can tell all of that information seems to be provided in clear text which imo would result in retaliation actions being taken against the people putting an instance on the list. Something like this has happened in the Minecraft community on global banlist projects and seems to be (in a lesser form) an issue with Bluesky's public blocklists as well. (And in the email-space Spamhaus gets attacked a lot as well)

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@thisismissem@hachyderm.io 2026-03-26 13:41

@the_moep@mastodon.de okay, a lot of questions! 1) FediMod FIRES is not related to Mastodon's FASP protocol. You shouldn't need an active connection to a FIRES server to process incoming activities. 2) Moderation data is shared publicly. Your server needs a copy of that data in order to take action. Moderation data providers can share as much or as little data about their operations as they desire. 3) The only way to not make the moderation data clear text would be by using Differential Privacy, and I absolutely do not have the cryptography knowledge to implement that. 4) Private datasets have been requested as a feature. Need to figure out access control. Existing datasets are all public. Hope that helps.

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