Those less responsible authors should be shown this study from the same organization last month showing similar problems on Twitter

In the course of the investigation, researchers found that despite the availability of image hashes to identify and remove known CSAM, Twitter experienced an apparent regression in its mitigation of the problem. Using PhotoDNA, a common detection system for identified instances of known CSAM, matches were identified on public profiles, bypassing safeguards that should have been in place to prevent the spread of such content. This gap was disclosed to Twitter’s Trust & Safety team which responded to address the issue. However, the failure highlights the need for platforms to prioritize user safety and the importance of collaborative research efforts to mitigate and proactively counter online child abuse and exploitation.

That being said, people who code for the Fediverse should see this report and pay particular attention to things like

Current tools for addressing child sexual exploitation and abuse online—such as PhotoDNA and mechanisms for detecting abusive accounts or recidivism—were developed for centrally managed services and must be adapted for the unique architecture of the Fediverse and similar decentralized social media projects.

I honestly don't know crap about coding, but this seems like a very solvable problem and something I'd very much like for the people who do to engage with. I would absolutely donate some money to support a project like this.

e; I guess what I meant to say is I would absolutely donate some money to purchase API keys from Microsoft

I appreciate you doing a level headed job of explaining this and dropping a link. Cheers!

It's not bullshit that the CSAM content is there. It's bullshit to imply that this is a unique problem for Mastodon. Every social media platform is rife with child-abuse material.

Who made the study? It's unknown? Let's put an X next to the unknown :)

I've seen a lot of great stuff on Mastodon but when it starts to become overwhelmingly political, I dip out. Problem is that you have to follow an abrasive amount of random people to start seeing anything across their fediverse. Shit in the beginning, awesome/hits the mark at least in terms of twitter replacement - after you follow enough people.

There was some theorycrafting from some of the react devs on twitter that they were striking mastodon from twitter on purpose to eliminate people becoming aware of it.

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