Hi #mastoadmin - anyone willing to work with our company on proposing a PR to #mastodon to add #PhotoDNA scanning feature for inbound messages to help prevent the scourge of #csam? We're not developers, but might be able to help fund/promote a type of hook/API call or maybe even a PhotoDNA account for smaller instances to use that helps auto report to #ncmec ... reach out if interested.
Context:https://tinyurl.com/k782myaz
Give us a boost for reach?
@derek
Tinyurl link seems to be broken, assume https://cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/io/news/addressing-child-exploitation-federated-social-media was meant
@derek Hi Derek!
Before sending any PR, we need to do design work on the Mastodon side for this kind of feature. I recently wrote an article about my (personal) vision for this: https://renchap.com/blog/post/evolving_mastodon_trust_and_safety/
You probably also want to reach out to https://about.iftas.org / @jaz as they started working on the matter.
@renchap @jaz Will start reading your ideas and agreed, would need a good design before any implementation. Also, hi @jaz - this is an issue near to my heart (and part of why my company exists - to protect kids from the evils of big tech and specifically create safe places for kids that need social media. How can we help? What do you need?
@renchap @derek @jaz This is a great read and I like the idea of "federating out" even components of mastodon. Do you think that it'd be a "faster time to market" to bake this model into the product or to develop a simple csam scanner feature directly into mastodon requiring only a PhotoDNA API key during setup?
@derek @renchap there's room for a thousand flowers to bloom. IFTAS is exploring solutions that can help all AP providers, not just Mastodon, so for us it will either be promoting some optional addition to various apps that can be turned on; working with the major hosts to see what can be done at the storage level; and building an API for anyone to use. We are exploring Safer from Thorn for the most part, but also looking at PhotoDNA. Conversations are spooling up here: https://chat.iftas.org/#/room/#space:matrix.iftas.org
>What do you need?
We've been building the org for a few months, this month is about getting the funding through the door and seeing what staff we need.
Until the Web site is built we are convening mod teams, T&S practitioners, devs and stakeholders here: https://matrix.to/#/#space:matrix.iftas.org
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@jaz is it possible yall's matrix server is blocking federation or doesn't have it's .well-known set? Can't seem to connect to you from my server.
@derek edited the link, please use https://matrix.to/#/#space:matrix.iftas.org