Fediverse Moderation

Here comes Moderation.

Examples

Manetta's suggestion :

https://github.com/f0x52/glitch-soc/blob/main/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md

constantz :

https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/guidelines.questions

https://constantvzw.org/wefts/orientationspourcollaboration.en.html

port of Rotterdam code of conduct: https://www.portofrotterdam.com/sites/default/files/2024-06/code-of-conduct_0.pdf

old boys network 100 anti-theses

https://obn.org/obn/reading_room/manifestos/html/anti.html

varia code of conduct:

https://git.vvvvvvaria.org/varia/varia.website/src/commit/fe164708333a4707ac1103396ca331fc2cf2c509/content/pages/code-of-conduct.en.md

Libre Graphic Meeting

https://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2020/en/codeofconduct.html

Eldritch Cafe

https://eldritch.cafe/about

Queer Code

https://queer-code.org/coc

Free BSD

https://www.freebsd.org/internal/code-of-conduct/

https://berlincodeofconduct.org/

Quilt INC#Code of Conduct

((in)ter)dependence/Code of Conduct

Post Lurk:

https://post.lurk.org/about

Research

Table 1: The prevalence of Rules in Mastodon and Reddit sub-communities. Rules can be both prescriptive and restrictive and can cover multiple content categories. For example, "Treat others with respect" is a prescriptive personality rule, "Don't be a jerk" is restrictive personality rule and "Be civil and be kind. If you need to criticise, punch up, never down. Hate speech, intended to incite or offend, is not acceptable" is a both prescriptive and restrictive rule that covers multiple categories, including personality, hate speech, and harassment. "Mastodon Instances" refers to those in the sample dataset (100 instances, 690 rules), and "Subreddits" refers to those in Fiesler and colleagues large-scale dataset [18].

from https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3584931.3606970

Rule Type	Mastodon Instances	Subreddits
Restrictive	93%	99.4%
Prescriptive	83%	99.8%
Hate Speech	71%	1.6%
Reddiquette/Mastodon Covenant	67%	5.9%
Harassment	64%	2.7%
NSFW	60%	4.1%
Personality	53%	30.4%
Content Warnings	50%	N/A
Illegal Content	48%	N/A
Consequences/Moderation	43%	90.5%
Spam	42%	1.7%
Incitement of Violence	34%	N/A
Mis/Disinformation/Conspiracy	32%	N/A
Doxxing/ Personal Info	31%	0.5%
Advertising & Commercialization	30%	7.6%
Images	28%	0.8%
Brigading/Dogpiling	27%	0.2%
Behavior/Content/Format Allowed	21%	99.9%
Impersonation	20%	N/A
Codes of Conduct	17%	N/A
Copyright/ Piracy	16%	1.0%
Server Interference	14%	N/A
Automated Tools	14%	N/A
Off-topic/topic Specific	12%	15.6%
Politics	9%	0.1%
Low-Quality Content	8%	0.8%
Reposting/Crossposting	8%	1.6%
Trolling	7%	0.3%
Links & Outside Content	7%	24.2%
Spoilers	4%	0.7%

Drafts

https://pad.xpub.nl/p/Fediverse_Moderation

CoC draft

moved here from the main Fediverse page

Draft CoC by 02.06.2025

About

Traditionally XPUB is the Master of Arts in Fine Art and Design: Experimental Publishing of the Piet Zwart Institute. XPUB focuses on the acts of making things public and creating publics in the age of post-digital networks.

404.XPUB is an experimental, extraterrestrial, generational instance for all fish from the aquarium.

Code

404.XPUBis not a place to be nasty

404.XPUB is not a place to dox people

404.XPUB is not a place to be boring

On 404.XPUB decisions cannot be appealed multiple times

404.XPUB is not a place to post anything that do not follow the above

404.XPUB is a place for current and post XPUBbers.

When does moderation happen?

Moderation is passive and the mods can take action upon their daily usage or when alerted by an internal or external user.

If any issues come up, the mods look at the subject and decide on an action in a timely manner.

Actions include: time-out for specific time period and outright bans.

You are entitled to appeal to a decision once. Good luck.

Privacy :

   This comes in after we have details about system settings.

   "By using our services you agree that a minimal amount of information about your

connection (IP address) will be kept for debugging and maintenance purposes."

   This is a temporal space.

Mods

Mods advise the hardware team to moderate the bot spam troll etc.

Glossary

* nasty: all things unkind; sexism, racism, queer antagonism, xenophobia, ableism, ageism, media containing sexualized depictions of children and other kinds of oppression or general mean spiritedness.

* to dox: out someone's personal information like their address, name, physical manifestation without their consent.  

* boring: do not spam or post unsolicited, irrelevant posts, selfish

* selfish: keep self-promotion on a tasteful level

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