• Lionir [he/him]@beehaw.orgOP
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    5 months ago

    I’ve personally heard that Mjolnir works not great when it comes to admin things but the biggest problem that I’m aware is that Mjolnir does not really solve the problem for individuals with their rooms and spaces to moderate. I believe Draupnir (https://github.com/the-draupnir-project/Draupnir) is trying to help with this particular flaw with Mjolnir.

    One of the other things in terms of T&S is that it is my understanding that the team is too small and the tooling to handle the reports of abuse on matrix.org are not good enough.

    As for mod tools more concretely, I think that people who are admins of rooms or spaces should have the following abilities:

    • Clearer moderation roles
    • More interaction between permissions in rooms and spaces
    • Filters for slurs
    • Blocking homeservers (in case of abuse)
    • Reports that actually go to them

    It should be noted that I’m not very familiar with the tools on matrix as I largely have little trust in my ability to moderate there.

    • minnix@lemux.minnix.dev
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      5 months ago

      It sounds like you are more concerned with the matrix.org homeserver than matrix itself. Matrix.org homeserver will eventually go away for personal use, this is the plan for the future. Matrix has always kept this homeserver open as proof of concept, but has not planned to keep it open forever as the goal is the widespread adoption of the protocol and for people and orgs to host their own servers and build tools using matrix.

      The bullet points you listed are all currently able to be realized on any self-hosted homeserver.

      • Lionir [he/him]@beehaw.orgOP
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        5 months ago

        It sounds like you are more concerned with the matrix.org homeserver than matrix itself.

        No. The foundation also has massive influence in how the clients and protocol develop. These tools that I’m talking about are not built-in for matrix, they’re largely exclusive to instance admins through mjolnir or require the usage of bots. This is not a good state of affairs.

        Matrix.org homeserver will eventually go away for personal use, this is the plan for the future.

        I don’t believe this is true. I’ve never read such a thing.

        The bullet points you listed are all currently able to be realized on any self-hosted homeserver.

        Not every room or space will be hosted by someone self-hosting their server. I find it kind of appalling that this would be the solution. It’s certainly not what I’ve heard from people working on projects around moderation.