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1. Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jul-2024 16:10:55 JST Rich Felker

   • Marco Rogers
   • moggie

   @EverydayMoggie @polotek Yeah, when reports are forwarded, the identity of the reporting user is protected because the instance the report is forwarded to might be malicious. All you see is which instance it came from. One of the many ways instances function as "privacy unions".

   • Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jul-2024 16:11:24 JST Rich Felker

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     • Marco Rogers
     • moggie

     @polotek @EverydayMoggie I think it's a poorly done retrofit to fix exposure of reporting users to harassment & abuse.

     What used to happen, and what happens at protocol level, is identity of reporting user gets forwarded. They replaced that field with a dummy admin identity without clearly marking it as dummy.

     Because folks were reporting nazis on nazi instances, and the nazi instance owners would tell everyone to go gang up on the folka reporting them.

   • Marco Rogers (polotek@social.polotek.net)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jul-2024 16:11:36 JST Marco Rogers

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     • moggie

     @dalias @EverydayMoggie what's the reasoning behind this setup? Why would I give a fuck about a report from a random instance about a random user?