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@Okanogen @hrefna With hashtags, I haven't seen people use them a whole lot, although they're usually better than nothing.

Follows would intuitively make sense. Dunno how that would pan out in practice. Might end up with more than you bargained for.

@reiver @mitexleo From what I've seen, the Twitter one is widely used for harassment / to circulate misinfo by plucking data out of context (which makes it worse than not bothering at all).

For this proposal specifically, I think it would add a fair bit of complexity, and that might be enough for someone to not really want to bother with it.

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@JustineSmithies I assume it's because keeping posts in sync between instances is tricky.

I think this has always been a thing for likes (although, not so for boosts)

@Okanogen Quote posts are cool for a few reasons, including being able to share something more complex than just links and threads.

With a link, someone will often click on it and get transported to a whole other instance.

With a quote post, you can see a sneak peek (although, be mindful that it's easy to take that peek out of context) and click onto it from the same instance.

@Okanogen @hrefna That is admittedly an annoying one, although it's hard to say what the best solution here would be.

They probably don't want to end up replicating mainstream social media though by replicating recommendation engines and other engagement driven functionality.

@hrefna In my experience, "Nazi instances" (although, "troll instances" are) and "pro-CSAM instances" are not actually a thing.

There have been accusations, to be sure, however, every single time, they've never turned up an instance which is explicitly "pro-CSAM" (it's usually hyperbole).

So, I'm inclined to think it's a moderation matter. And even if you do about as well as mainstream social media, that's usually not satisfactory for the quite a few of these instances.

"1 in 3 people on the Internet are [minors]"
Considering there are billions of people on the Internet, it seems the amount of abuse is very small then.

@timorl @bonifartius @freemo It could be the U.K. one hastily came to a conclusion with insufficient context / information.

I'm going to avoid speculating broadly here though. Not enough information.

@freemo @timorl @bonifartius Apparently, the U.K. defamation case was against a newspaper, whereas the U.S. one was against her directly and involved far more evidence.

I've only heard of the case in passing though. I'm not familiar with it, so I might be mistaken.

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@kkarhan @autonomysolidarity @eff Well, hopefully the bill can fall via one of these routes. That is the ideal.

But, yeah, you can probably do that.

The U.K. left the E.U. but not the ECHR (European Convention on Human Rights).

Their politicians threatened to a few times a couple of years ago (because they wanted to deport migrants to Rwanda where there were concerns they might be treated inhumanely).

However, their "reform proposals" were overwhelmingly unpopular. I think something like 90% of the populace disagreed with them in one poll.

@kkarhan @autonomysolidarity @eff The language in this one is so tortured that it's not clear it can pass judicial review (hopefully not).

The only other options would be to rely on the ECHR, or for them to repeal it.

@lucifargundam So, probably some middle aged guy who never interacts with the platform at all, or hardly, and just has some team of people put up content.

It goes without saying that it is not the place of any British Government to go asking platforms to remove particular people because they're apparently bad people for committing some crime (which doesn't even have anything to do with the platform).

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