This highlights a big problem of volunteer-run/not-for-profit social media. Moderation is hard and expensive and tedious. The next one good be sending CSAM. I hope the Lemmy leadership is moving fast and working with orgs that provide detection tools for this stuff.

https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/07/25/mastodon-has-child-sexual-abuse-content-problem-researchers-say

imho this reflects a huge failure of the fediverse. Our accounts shouldn’t be tied to an instance that’s hosting content, they should be on a an auth-only server that only is responsible for managing our identity, separate from the content-servers. Then it would be up to content-servers to decide how much content they want to federate about an identity to show on that user’s profile-page on this particular content-server. Like either federating it right in (hey here’s @Pxtl’s profile/feed scraped from every fediverse server they use directly) or just autogenerating links to their content on other servers (we don’t want to host content from HowToBlowUpAPipelineLemmy.org on Lemmy.world but here’s a link to @Pxtl’s posts there).

Wouldn’t it be cool to have the same identity on Mastodon as on Lemmy?

Then you could continue to participate in the fediverse without creating a new user-account on every server. Of course, the auth servers would still be vulnerable to outage but since they’re lower load and just providing auth they’d be much less vulnerable.

I think it should be a thing, but only allowed to be created by the admins of the community that they can use for creating tech-support and modmin discussions and whatnot. Not for normal users to create.

Shows why Canadian news companies should be getting into the Fediverse.

I feel like he’s also forcing his eyes open wider. He tends to squint when he’s relaxed, and these days his brow is constantly furrowed. Like, he’s always trying to make himself look surprised to fight against his own natural squint.

It must be exhausting.

I mean governments have various things they can do. Push hard on cities that are blocking construction through obstruction or sloth. Prioritize tradesmen as immigrants. Use the powers of the federal government to create a national vacant unit registry so that lower tiers of government don’t have to run vacant unit taxes on the honour system. Allow single-stair multi-unit dwellings. Fund rental construction like they did before Chretien/Martin. Reduce the requirements to get your trade papers (apprenticeships are good but 5 years before your electrician papers seriously???)

It’s just that governments would rather argue about bullshit. Ford is focused on the fucking Ontario Place spa. Poilievre and Postmedia are flinging shit about bail reform. The CBC is, as ever, up its own ass about complete obscure nonsense. Trudeau is a fountain of empty nothings, as he has been since he lost Gerry Butts. Jagmeet is talking about the housing issue, but only in ways to throw more money at buyers and renters to juice demand in a supply-side shortage, which is basically subsidizing landlords.

Houses are going for millions. Skilled trades are in short supply. The message for tradies should be loud and clear: raise your prices. Whatever you’re being paid, it’s not enough. Everybody else is gouging in this shortage, you should too. Get that bag.