The Atlantic Council is the Global North’s premier foreign policy think tank, and the fediverse is on its radar now. PDF
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Many discussions about social media governance and trust and safety are focused on a small number of centralized, corporate-owned platforms that currently dominate the social media landscape: Meta’s Facebook and Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, Reddit, and a handful of others. The emergence and growth in popularity of federated social media services, like Mastodon and Bluesky, introduces new opportunities, but also significant new risks and complications. This annex offers an assessment of the trust and safety (T&S) capabilities of federated platforms—with a particular focus on their ability to address collective security risks like coordinated manipulation and disinformation.
- First they came for the lemmygrads, and I did not speak out, because I was not a marxist-lenninist.
- Then they came for the hexbears, and I did not speak out, because I was not a leftist.
- Then they came for the lemmy.mls, and I did not speak out, because I was not a privacy enthusiast.
- Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak for me.