Features I can think of:
- a system for stricter content moderation, especially something that would automatically delete NSFW/NSFL posts,
- no direct messaging,
- some kind of tool for moderators to efficiently review content,
- multi-layered access to an account to allow for parental control,
- time management tool that would not be based on the client, but with the session duration calculated through interactions.
I can’t imagine the effort that moderating a project like that would require, I suspect that the ongoing efforts to address fediverse moderation will need to progress a great deal more before a project like that becomes viable (unfortunately)
Question is, is there anyone that is even suggesting to build a moderation tool for, for example, Mastodon, aimed at this specific need?
Right now the moderation tools available appear to be on the level of “thog bang rock on other rock - make smaller rock, easy to eat” and efforts are primarily aimed at introducing Thog to the concept of fire so he can at least cook his rocks.
The few automoderators I’ve seen attempted have been “ban you over a couple downvotes” bad, so AI content moderation seems like it may be a bit ambitious right now. It’s a good idea, but more work needs to be done before we’re at the point it’s feasible to start working on it. Like teaching Thog the concept of nuance, and getting him to stop trying to eat the keyboard.
I’m not talking about usability, just about the foundation. Besides what others already said about why it’s not a good idea to answer your specific question regarij moderation tooling is:
Your requirements are incompatible with decentralization. Every moderation tool will have to use the network itself which means a moderation event has a significant delay in which the content has a “head start”.
There is no way to have an instant kill switch for content or a centralized gated release of content.
And at the end everyone can spin up an instance and decide on moderation, after all - and decide on the moderation rules there. This will cause an even bigger delay until the malicious instance is blacklisted by others.
Moderation is the wrong answer. White listing is the right answer.
I think that could get really expensive. Also pedo’s have a habit of getting into trusted authority, how do you keep them out? They can’t even get those people out of the office of the president of the US.
Yeah but what do you want the kids to interact with? There’s a lot of sfw stuff like politics and hate speech I don’t want kids to be near of.
Kids having unsupervised access to internet is just a bad idea in my opinion, no matter safe you try to make it.
Also the moderation issue someone pointed here.
I like the parental control idea of yours, because of this reason. Atleast it helps to certain degree.
Or even any foss projects with social parts that are kid safe.
I’d love to let my kid play daily Scrabble with his grandma overseas with chat. However, .ost games seem to be open to all or closes to chat completely. There is no middle ground.
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