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ActivityPub Trust and Safety Taskforce
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Improve Flag activities to differentiate the object being reported vs the evidence for that report #3

Open ThisIsMissEm opened 2 months ago

ThisIsMissEm commented 2 months ago

At present, the Flag activity contains a list of objects that are other activitystreams 2 objects that the flag is about, however, there's no differentiation of "this is evidence for the report" vs "this is a thing I want to report"

This leads to interesting compatibility bugs where for instance, as mastodon only understands reports about Actors, it requires both the actor and the note to be present in the Flag's objects list, and if software doesn't send that, the report fails to get created.

e.g., https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/28159

trwnh commented 1 month ago

preliminary idea, maybe there is or should be a semantic difference between object and attachment, as in, you might report the actor with various posts attached, or you might report the posts directly, or you might report both the actor and posts

this could also open the door to attaching evidence other than directly linking to the offending objects, you could attach screenshots for example?

jfinkhaeuser commented 1 month ago

You could also report an instance, where multiple actors contribute to the reason. Might especially want to highlight if admins are part of those actors.

Also, in an instance report, look at their public moderation policies.

ThisIsMissEm commented 1 month ago

You could also report an instance, where multiple actors contribute to the reason.

@jfinkhaeuser you could, but this would be unlikely to be a Flag activity (who would you be sending it to?)

unless we extend how Flag's are used to not just be for reporting content/conduct, but also for communicating to a non-participant. Normally a Flag is "this specific content or actor is doing something bad, send a Flag activity to their instance actor to let their moderators know" or same thing but "send this Flag to other servers involved in the conversation to let them know of an evolving situation"

ultimately, a server receiving a Flag activity needs to know "do I care about the objects within to create a report about this?"

jfinkhaeuser commented 1 month ago

Yes, I think I joined this conversation from a slightly different angle. It would/should be distinct from Flag, but possibly have overlap. I added more on #14, and think you should disregard my previous comment here - sorry!