The posts certainly do get duplicated to every instance, of course, but the media contained in them are always hosted by the originating instance, as far as I can tell.

Some software creates thumbnails on the server storage.

I wonder how you would handle the different sizes of instances.

That is a problem to discuss after it is decided if the Fediverse even wants such a service ;)
But I’m aware and one possibility would be to limit the number of electable judges from one instance. The upper limit must be in proportion to their user-count to be somewhat representing. But I think instances with only a handful of users won’t ever get seats without the jury being way too big. Or they are so popular that they get enough votes from other instance users.

It’d be difficult to come up with a central solution which isn’t some lowest common denominator. Which probably will be overblocking in this case?

It should be lowest common denominator with underblocking; so the intersection of rules, not the union. If one needs more strict blocking, nobody stops them. The court is not supposed to replace instance local moderation, just to augment it to allow more swift central decisions on certain topics.

Also the implementation can allow following more than one court. So for example once for international internet law (really lowest common denominator) and one for German internet law.

My idea is to limit the scope of the rulings to be limited to very basic laws (like preventing illegal material). Everything outside this scope is still the sole matter of the individual instances. It is like the International Court of Justice, only to judge based on common rules, while not interfering with “local politics” (while it can be used to get consent of all participating instances for other procedures).

When it is visible that judges use their position to apply rules of their home instance to everyone else, they should be voted out.

Don’t put it on top, but make it part of the platform itself.

Then we would need to convince every platform dev to implement it with a predefined standard and wait for the release. With the independent server + bot approach it gives more flexibility and every server admin can add the service without the platform to support it.

We could expose moderation decisions as some kind of feed people can subscribe to.

But then it would depend too much on the views of one instance. Every instance has their own set of rules, which is their right and is fine. But not all instances would like to apply the mod decisions based on rules they might not even have. With a common 3th-party jury mod actions are limited on only a set of rules all instances agree on, while they can apply more fine-grained rules themselves and not interfering with other servers.

But it’s also guaranteed to be (ab)used for the usual political, online ideology/identity war.

This is also a big problem with following mod actions of a server which also publishes posts. There will be a bias and if that server has beef with someone else, it will lead to injustice.

Also another thing about “feed people can subscribe to”: this proposed system is not for curated blocklists between users or such. It is for actions which have to apply to whole instances like account purges to ensure illegal media is not distributed.

FYI sending a code for login seems not to work for fedia.io. Login via code in my profile works.

but it’s kindve the odd child out here

sad Mbin dev noises (or maybe odd as in special, then happy Mbin dev noises)

Very cool. I was looking forward to something like this coming into existence or else I might have done it (probably with worse UI/UX than you did :D ).

And I’m glad to see that Mbin is still included in the list of major threadiverse platforms.

How would you compare Elixir with Kotlin (or similar) in terms ease of use and efficiency?

ActivityPub has been around for 8 years, and IMO, the Fediverse is not evolving. It is not federating the way ActivityPub was designed for.

From this I thought you are referring to the fedi platforms in general. I saw later you wrote specifically about Lemmy; so ok.
Still, my example shows that the Fediverse is evolving (even if it might be slow). Lemmy and Mastodon might be the biggest platforms out there, but they might not be the ultimate prestige examples of our network.

They said Diaspora never gained support, not Friendica.

I can’t show you directly, as fedia.io requires login to access the platform (scraper protection), but I was able to open the channel by searching for their handle, the page showed up videos (also recent ones) and the video-posts had comments. The page show the channel-logo and every post had the thumbnail of the video.
One click on the title when you have to post open, and it will open the original page in a new tab, which then can play the video. Even better: Mbin automatically inserts the embedded viewer for the posted video, so you don’t even have to leave fedia.

So please don’t draw conclusions from Lemmy to all fedi projects.

And for some fedi projects even a handful of regular contributors would be much.

or hate for other platforms?

I contribute to Mbin out of passion for the Fediverse and the idea Mbin is build upon. But hate against bigtech is also a factor here and there :D

That is not really correct, posts are represented differently from threads in Mbin (internally and in the UI). You don’t have to post to a specific magazine / community. If you want your post to just float around in the Fediverse (so have the post associated with just your account + hashtags) you choose the random magazine for the post.
I admit that this is not really intuitive and the random magazine is a crutch for this platform to handle plain posts. To make it a bit easier to grasp I created a PR to select the random magazine if one is not on a magazine page.

But all of what you described is possible with Mbin. As an example I created this post (using the form on the generic microblog page) which you can see under posts on my local account. I would like to add links to federated Mbin and Mastodon instances, but nobody follows me, so remote instances don’t pull posts.

What is currently not possible is to follow hashtags (but you can list posts), but I am going to implement this soon.

What exactly do you mean “to a profile”? Can you give an example of the difference (I never used Mastodon)?

Could you describe your problem in more detail?

Microblogs are always associated to your profile. If you want to post something which is not meant for a specific magazine, the random magazine is what you need to use. It is a pseudo-magazine (and so not federated as a community) which aggregates all microblog posts which are not attached to a real magazine.