Diigo Censorship Heads Up & Delicious Migration Spreadsheet
So Diigo automatically marks private any bookmarks with certain words in them - words that their algorithm has on a list of "bad/inappropriate" words. Anatsuno brought it to attention on Twitter and here's a couple of links cited.
A request in the ideas forum @ Diigo: "[request to] stop arbitrary switching some bookmarks from public to private. Some tags, like "sexy", cause the bookmarks to be switched to private where they have been flagued public before by the author."
Diigo staffer response: "Sorry,no.
We want to make Diigo a meaningful platform where all community members can benefit from quality collective wisdom knowledge sharing. So we set a high standard to public bookmarks.
As for bookmarks containing bad/inappropriate words such as sex,porn, sexy in title/description/tag/annotation,our system will
convert them to private automatically."
In a group thread, another staffer says: "Since there are many k-12 students and teachers in diigo, we implemented an algorithm to detect whether a bookmark contains porn content. If it does, we will change the bookmark to private automatically. However, the algorithm may do some false judgement. Let me know the URLs which were converted to private and we will try to figure out how to improve the algorithm."
That last thread gets snippy on all sides. There has been some evidence of accounts locked down, but it's unclear if it is a result of tripping an auto "bot detection" tool or the aforementioned "inappropriate" algorithm.
The real problem here is that, until this news broke, I was thinking Pinboard for personal bookmarking, but Diigo's free service for newsletters and kinkmemes. Obviously that isn't going to work.
Now for some good news! There is a Delicious Migration spreadsheet happening and anyone can edit. You can find it here. This is obviously not for anyone uber worried about privacy, but you choose what you want to put in. It's very simple and just has columns for usernames on the various sites involved, for example: LJ, DW, Delicious, Diigo, Pinboard, AO3, Zootool, etc.
The rest of the good news is that Pinboard is fandom friendly. I'm not just saying that because they don't have a censorship algorithm in place, either. Earlier today, Pinboard's operator tweeted: "@Proph3tic there's a fair amount of fanfic people now. I've been trying to lure them for a while since I know they're devoted bookmarkers" ♥ \o/ ♥
Just to review, for those who haven't seen info on it yet: it does have a one time sign-up fee that gradually creeps up as more users join. The fee is currently $9.42 USD. There are no ads and it's lightning fast, so I think it's well worth it if you can swing that much. (Also, Pinboard has an RSS feed of your entire network page available, which is making me so happy right now.)
tl;dr: Come to Pinboard, Fandom! We have cookies!
eta: bookshop has more information in an entry here.
eta2: Someone has suggested that the lack of enforcement of aforementioned algorithm lately is due to it malfunctioning and Diigo not fixing it until someone brings it to their attention. (There was more logic involved, but I've had some wine, so you'll have to make do with the short version.) While it may not be happening now, Diigo is very obv. fandom unfriendly and it could happen at any point in the future.
ALSO, AVOS has a new blog post up that will make you laugh hysterically. Or it did me anyway, but that could be the alcohol talking: The First 20 Hours. Best line of the whole thing: "Speaking of feedback, we were thrilled to get so much of it today." I JUST BET YOU WERE.
Crossposted to Dreamwidth where there are
comments. Comment here or there. ♥ Blue :)
A request in the ideas forum @ Diigo: "[request to] stop arbitrary switching some bookmarks from public to private. Some tags, like "sexy", cause the bookmarks to be switched to private where they have been flagued public before by the author."
Diigo staffer response: "Sorry,no.
We want to make Diigo a meaningful platform where all community members can benefit from quality collective wisdom knowledge sharing. So we set a high standard to public bookmarks.
As for bookmarks containing bad/inappropriate words such as sex,porn, sexy in title/description/tag/annotation,our system will
convert them to private automatically."
In a group thread, another staffer says: "Since there are many k-12 students and teachers in diigo, we implemented an algorithm to detect whether a bookmark contains porn content. If it does, we will change the bookmark to private automatically. However, the algorithm may do some false judgement. Let me know the URLs which were converted to private and we will try to figure out how to improve the algorithm."
That last thread gets snippy on all sides. There has been some evidence of accounts locked down, but it's unclear if it is a result of tripping an auto "bot detection" tool or the aforementioned "inappropriate" algorithm.
The real problem here is that, until this news broke, I was thinking Pinboard for personal bookmarking, but Diigo's free service for newsletters and kinkmemes. Obviously that isn't going to work.
Now for some good news! There is a Delicious Migration spreadsheet happening and anyone can edit. You can find it here. This is obviously not for anyone uber worried about privacy, but you choose what you want to put in. It's very simple and just has columns for usernames on the various sites involved, for example: LJ, DW, Delicious, Diigo, Pinboard, AO3, Zootool, etc.
The rest of the good news is that Pinboard is fandom friendly. I'm not just saying that because they don't have a censorship algorithm in place, either. Earlier today, Pinboard's operator tweeted: "@Proph3tic there's a fair amount of fanfic people now. I've been trying to lure them for a while since I know they're devoted bookmarkers" ♥ \o/ ♥
Just to review, for those who haven't seen info on it yet: it does have a one time sign-up fee that gradually creeps up as more users join. The fee is currently $9.42 USD. There are no ads and it's lightning fast, so I think it's well worth it if you can swing that much. (Also, Pinboard has an RSS feed of your entire network page available, which is making me so happy right now.)
tl;dr: Come to Pinboard, Fandom! We have cookies!
eta: bookshop has more information in an entry here.
eta2: Someone has suggested that the lack of enforcement of aforementioned algorithm lately is due to it malfunctioning and Diigo not fixing it until someone brings it to their attention. (There was more logic involved, but I've had some wine, so you'll have to make do with the short version.) While it may not be happening now, Diigo is very obv. fandom unfriendly and it could happen at any point in the future.
ALSO, AVOS has a new blog post up that will make you laugh hysterically. Or it did me anyway, but that could be the alcohol talking: The First 20 Hours. Best line of the whole thing: "Speaking of feedback, we were thrilled to get so much of it today." I JUST BET YOU WERE.
Crossposted to Dreamwidth where there are
comments. Comment here or there. ♥ Blue :)