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I need opinions on a HappyView feature: inspection for atproto spaces. TL;DR - should the dashboard be give admins a clean view into spaces content? More deets in the thread. 🧵 #atproto

Basically, spaces are fully accessible to server admins. This is the same for spaces hosted by HappyView, as well as spaces on your PDS. If somebody has access to the database, they can read anything in your spaces.

From the perspective of a server operator, it actually makes a lot of sense. The operator of a PDS needs to be able to moderate the content on their PDS. We don't need bad actors creating spaces just to store their CSAM. That would be Very Bad™.

Having access via the database is one thing, but having a tool for a clean view into that data feels like a whole different ball game. So here's the question: Is it too skeevy for HappyView to provide an interface for browsing space data?

Of course the goal isn't to give operators a creepy tool to rifle thru your private stuff, but any tool that provides this sort of auditability CAN be exploited in that way.