decentralized_web_moderation.pdf

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1. pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist: (p@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 12-Mar-2023 01:51:40 JST pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist:
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   > Is there any way to figure out the numbers?
   
   Yes.
   
   https://fba.ryona.agency/scoreboard?blocked=50 Poast has apparently taken the #1 slot away from FSE, but there are 955 instances that block Poast.
   
   http://demo.fedilist.com/ "Active instances: 22,687 (8,649 with open registrations)."
   
   955/22687 = 0.042.
   
   So the most-blocked server is only blocked by 4.2% of the servers on the network. This means that, at most, only 4.2% of the admins on fedi use #fediblock, and 95.8% of them ignore #fediblock. Since FSE is the final boss of the #fediblock list, it's safer to say that at least 96.2% of the admins on fedi ignore the list. You could probably do something more thorough, say that you produce a count of instances that block at least half of the instances on the list, and this would get you a more accurate number, but I think it would still be pretty small, maybe two, three dozen.
   
   > Because it could indeed be possible - they've lost a lot of people since the last exodus from twitter
   
   They were never the majority on the network. I have constantly heard, since close to the beginning of FSE, "Everyone is gonna block you!" and it's mostly neurotics (who filter so heavily that they have a distorted view of what represents a majority view; "How could Nixon have won? Nobody I know voted for him.") and people playing the social-pressure game (which gives them an incentive to claim a majority), and that's a long way from "everyone".
   
   There's also that paper about blocking that got passed around a while back. They did some analysis; I disagree with a lot of their proposals, but it's a more thorough treatment than anyone's given #fediblock until now:
   decentralized_web_moderation.pdf