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Bob Collins

Dear #Fosstodon members,
I understand that there was a recent issue with instance #moderators. I have read several articles on the subject.

What I see happening is people moving away from Fosstodon. There have also been discussions of other instances blocking Fosstodon.

I have read what @Gina has written about how she is trying to address the site's reputation, and I appreciate her efforts.

For me, I _feel_ the interaction on posts _may_ be down. Is anyone else feeling this also?

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Mischievous Loner :t_blink:

@Gina @fosstodon @mastodonindians
This needs #attention .
Hiding this #truth and not being able to #educate folks damages #fosstodon community and infuriates all #Hindus and #Buddhists seeking justice for their sacred symbol.
Folks on mastodon, SPEAK UP!
See the #difference and make a difference.
READ THE FULL BLOG POST-
"**Dishonesty by #moderators of #fosstodon.org under #influence , biased or lack of knowledge.**"

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Something Sometimes Sudden Thoughts · Dishonesty by moderators of fosstodon.org under influence , biased or lack of knowledge.Hello, my post(https://fosstodon.org/web/@mischievousloner/114262175944132485) educating folks about the meaning of swastika( A HINDU SYM...
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Mischievous Loner :t_blink:

@something-sometimes-sudden-thoughts @Gina @fosstodon @mastodonindians
This needs #attention .
Hiding this #truth and not being able to #educate folks damages #fosstodon community and infuriates all #Hindus and #Buddhists seeking justice for their sacred symbol.
Folks on mastodon, SPEAK UP!
See the #difference and make a difference.
"**Dishonesty by #moderators of #fosstodon.org under #influence , biased or lack of knowledge.**"

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PersonalData.IO :verified:

Nous sommes le 28 avril 2025 et...

🔓 La carte est désormais en accès libre !
🔗 personaldata.io/carte-en-afriq

PersonalData.IO · Carte en Afrique de modération du contenu et d'étiquetage des données - PersonalData.IODATA4MODS : Carte du travail de MODÉRATION DU CONTENU ET d’ÉTIQUETAGE DES DONNÉES EN AFRIQUE Les travailleurs.euses de l’IA et les chercheurs.euses produisent la première carte du travail de modération de contenu et d’étiquetage des données en Afrique ! Des travailleurs.euses et des chercheurs.euses ont mis en lumière l’industrie de la modération de contenu et de l’étiquetage des données en Afrique en produisant une carte interactive en libre accès. La carte est la première visualisation de cette main-d’œuvre technologique en pleine expansion, montrant où les modérateurs.rices de contenu et les étiqueteurs.euses de données travaillent en Afrique et où les entreprises pour lesquelles ils travaillent ont leur siège. Le secteur de la modération de contenu et de l’étiquetage des données est à l’origine de l’essor de l’intelligence artificielle. Il identifie et filtre le contenu afin d’optimiser l’utilisation de l’IA dans certaines des plus grandes entreprises du monde. La carte permet d’éclairer ce qui est une industrie secrète et d’exploitation. Elle montre que l’industrie de la modération de contenu et de l’étiquetage des données s’est étendue à toute l’Afrique, 39 des 54 pays africains ayant au moins un centre de BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) de ce type. Au total, il existe 78 centres BPO sur le continent, le Nigeria étant le pays qui en compte le plus avec huit. Parmi les entreprises qui embauchent des modérateurs.rices de contenu et des étiqueteurs.euses de données africains.aines, quatre sont basées aux États-Unis, quatre en Europe, deux en Asie et une au Canada. Il s’agit notamment d’entreprises d’externalisation qui sont engagées par les plus grandes plateformes de médias sociaux et entreprises d’IA au monde. Par exemple, Hugo, une société d’externalisation basée dans le Michigan qui a des contrats avec Meta et Google, gère des centres d’externalisation en Afrique du Sud, au Nigéria et au Kenya. Certaines entreprises recrutent également des étiqueteurs.euses de données et des modérateurs.rices de contenu sur la base d’un travail à distance et de l’économie de l’abondance en Afrique. Remotasks, dont le siège se trouve aux Philippines, est une filiale de Scale AI (une société américaine d’annotation de données basée à San Francisco). Remotasks a créé plus d’une douzaine de « camps d’entraînement » en Asie du Sud-Est et en Afrique pour former des milliers d’étiqueteurs.euses de données. En mars 2024, il a été signalé que Remotasks avait brusquement mis fin à ses services dans plusieurs pays sans explication. Des travailleurs.euses au Kenya et au Nigeria se sont retrouvés soudainement dans l’incapacité de travailler. la carte a propos Data4Mods est une initiative novatrice qui a étudié et cartographié le secteur de la modération de contenu et de l’étiquetage des données en Afrique. Elle vise à donner aux travailleurs les moyens d’exercer leurs droits en matière de données et d’analyser leurs données personnelles. L’objectif est de créer un pouvoir collectif qui les aide à prouver et à améliorer leur travail. Cette initiative est une collaboration entre Personaldata.IO et l’African Content Moderators’ Union (ACMU) : Le premier syndicat de ce type dans le monde, représentant les modérateurs de contenu et les étiqueteurs de données à travers l’Afrique, plaidant pour l’amélioration des conditions de travail et le soutien à la santé mentale.
#data4mods#moderators#map
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PersonalData.IO :verified:

📣 La première cartographie du travail de modération de contenu et d’annotation de données en Afrique !

C'est avec joie que nous vous partageons les résultats de notre projet #Data4Mods en collaboration avec l'Union des Modérateur·trice·s de Contenu Africain·e·s (African Content Moderators).

🔗 Découvrez notre projet en détails : personaldata.io/data4mods/

La carte sera accessible publiquement :

📅 Lundi 28 Avril 2025
🕚 11H
🔗 personaldata.io/carte-en-afriq

🎤 Vous êtes #journaliste et souhaitez en savoir plus ou nous accéder à la carte interactive : contact@personaldata.io

#moderators#IA#africancontentmoderators
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Jason Stiff

Is anyone else having difficulty posting videos here on Mastodon recently?

It hasn't mattered the size of the video, it just doesn't want to fully process them or allow them to be posted.

They process, it sits there forever, and I can never post them. It didn't used to do that... this has been the last week or so.

Thank you!

#moderators @moderators

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Abnormal Human Being

New update for the state of abnormalbeings.space available on Lemmy, check it out if you are interested:

A proper backup plan, Mastodon update + learning experience, PeerTube changes, looking for mods - State of abnormalbeings.space

lemmy.abnormalbeings.space/pos

lemmy.abnormalbeings.space25/04/05 A proper backup plan, Mastodon update + learning experience, PeerTube changes, looking for mods - State of abnormalbeings.space - AbnormalLemmingsSince the last update [https://lemmy.abnormalbeings.space/post/587275], there haven’t been any sweeping changes, but enough for a report, including one that should put people at ease: Yes, you won’t be raw dogging these services no longer, thanks to greater financial security from the donation mentioned in the last update, I was able to start this month’s budgeting by booking a separate storage for: ::: spoiler REGULAR BACKUPS Until now, my backup “plan” was, “I upload a backup image to a local NAS here at home, that has very old second hand HDDs, whenever I manage to remember”. That was… not acceptable, really. I will now have borgbackup running for incremental backups to a separate storage box by Hetzner (in Germany instead of Finland, for one more degree of separation). There will be separate, complete, incremental backups daily/weekly/monthly, starting today. It won’t guarantee data security on the same level as even more professional services, but I think anyone using this instance or others can rest a little more easily. ::: :::spoiler MASTODON UPDATE Another thing people can probably rest a bit more easily about: There was a minor update for mastodon, which I applied to toots.abnormalbeings.space [https://toots.abnormalbeings.space/home], bringing it up to date to version 4.3.7. Beyond just quickly giving a heads-up to report any potential issues, this is noteworthy, because it came with me learning a very important lesson about environment sanitising, that more experienced folks probably though to be self-evident. You can check out my learning journey here if you are interested. [https://lemmy.abnormalbeings.space/post/804932] Having the opportunity to learn about what are best practices - one of the Achilles heels of, I wager, not just me as a self-taught admin - is great, especially if the learning process and answers can add to the fund of knowledge within the Fediverse! ::: ::: spoiler PEERTUBE CHANGES Videos.abnormalbeings.space [https://videos.abnormalbeings.space/home] saw some changes, too. I, sadly, had to change up the registration process to manually confirming users again, as I had several accounts registering - sometimes avoiding bans with throwaway mail addresses - and uploading at best highly suspicious content that I was not able to moderate due to language barrier, or just videos outright against the rules. Additionally, I updated the about info, structured it more, removed redundancy of the rules, clarified moderation policy and added more contaft info. Changes can be viewed here. [https://videos.abnormalbeings.space/about/instance/home] There’s also been some changes to the landing page [https://videos.abnormalbeings.space/home] - now sporting current livestreams, as well as a separate small section for trending local videos: [https://lemmy.abnormalbeings.space/pictrs/image/55afc263-d0ad-4ef2-8af1-3fc71018947f.png] [https://lemmy.abnormalbeings.space/pictrs/image/6cf5231e-c891-4020-936b-dbd357e795a8.png] Alongside this, I will now start to weekly rotate the recommended channels list, rotating the last row into first place, as to make it a fairer system for channels that ended up at the bottom before. There really is little rhyme or reason to the way I sorted them, so this seemed like a good compromise to me. Also, in good news: the amount of accounts on videos.abnormalbeings.space has ballooned up to 30+ (including 3 accounts created by myself). This is some great growth, and I am happy to say, that there has been some legitimate content appearing on there, beyond my silly meme videos and that one trailer for my by now very old game. Thank you all for putting your trust in me, server resources still allow for a lot more users! (This goes even more so for Lemmy and Mastodon, of course). ::: ::: spoiler LOOKING FOR MODS Realising the user growth on particularly PeerTube, I’d also be very interested in people applying as volunteer moderators. You’d have to have a local account on at least the service you want to mod, plus on matrix [https://matrix.to/#/#abnormalbeings:matrix.abnormalbeings.space] for behind-the-scenes discussion. Applications are welcome on matrix, in the Applications channel! [https://matrix.to/#/#applications:matrix.abnormalbeings.space] Bonus points if you speak other languages than English and German, which I have covered! Currently, it would 100% be a volunteer position. Long term, if this project ends up getting more in donations than the server cost, I’d think it would be cool to share any excess with an established mod/admin team - but that sentence right here should be, at this point, treated as “a random thought I am having.” I can neither promise that amount of donations ever happening, nor promise that being possible easily whenever it were to happen. ::: And that is that for the newest state of the server update. Thank you for reading, thank you for using the Fediverse, stay awesome!
#fediverse#lemmy#PeerTube
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PrivacyDigest

#Bluesky Deletes #AI Protest Video of #Trump Sucking Musk's Toes, Calls It 'Non-Consensual #Explicit Material'

Update: After this article was published, Bluesky restored Kabas' post and told 404 Media the following: "This was a case of our #moderators applying the policy for non-consensual AI content strictly. After re-evaluating the #newsworthy context, the #moderation team is reinstating those posts."
#Musk #ElonMusk #donaldtrump #socialmedia

404media.co/bluesky-deletes-ai

404 Media · Bluesky Deletes AI Protest Video of Trump Sucking Musk's Toes, Calls It 'Non-Consensual Explicit Material'Bluesky has deleted the most viral post reporting on an internal government protest agains the President of the United States and the world's richest man.
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Kevin Karhan :verified:

@adhdeanasl also #Scammers can't really buy range like they can on #BillionaireSocialMedia:

#bots#boost#Bot
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IFTAS

Burnout is a persistent issue with one in five moderators report experiencing trauma or burnout this year, underlining the need for wellness and resilience resources.

If you relate to this, IFTAS Connect offers support and resources to cope with many common issues for moderators and it’s free: about.iftas.org/2024/05/29/ift .

#FediFacts #MastoAdmin #Moderators
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