R.O.S.I.E 5448
@rosie@0x4d4f5448.systems
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"Current everyday digital tools/infrastructures do not ensure the best standards for sovereignty of content and data neither for the individual, nor organisations and states." "This affects the full guarantees of various human rights, such as the right to privacy or the right to conduct a business, and democratic governance as a whole." https://u.fsf.org/44b
I would encourage every Fediverse software project to implement a “dead-man switch" on registrations: if nobody with moderator permissions has been active in the last week, then disable new account creation.
The Fediverse has a significant number of abandoned instances that are used by bad actors to create accounts and send spam.
We implemented this in Mastodon (https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/29318) and it has been highly effective.
It sometimes surprises people that the FSF does all its work with only eleven staff members. Well, we are blessed with the support of a crew of fantastic volunteers!
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