@coriander (also blackle did the actual first implementation)
@coriander like he didn't WANT to but he didn't want
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on the public TL either LOL
@coriander the only reason he did was because everyone was ROT13ing their posts and that was "bad for onboarding"
@coriander communists who like work but hate workdays
@coriander if it wasn't for capitalism i just wouldn't have changed my clocks
@coriander i refuse to grace it with the honour of my acknowledgment
@coriander not what i think of when i think of switches
@coriander this is the true enlightenment
because i don't (can't) proactively moderate against smaller instances with a handful of users until they become a problem, it's really important that the big instances we send posts to only federate to small instances which are friendly
my major concern is posts here showing up on federated timelines there and then getting boosted by someone outside our usual cultural sphere, leading to context collapse
moderation isn't good enough there to ensure that the people seeing and boosting our public posts are necessarily the people with our interests at heart
@noelle i had a thought like "setting that auto-silences, and then auto-suspends after a month if the user isn't unsilenced or followed by anyone" but idk sounds like a lot of work
mastodon moderation tools… could be better
@noelle this said it could be a bit easier than i'm imagining; iirc blocking an instance "just" blocks all its users, so it might be as simple as letting mods revert that block after the fact
@noelle my guess is:
- there's probably a fair bit of code related to instance blocking which would need to be updated so it doesn't clobber allowed users
- you might also need an interface for specifying users the instance doesn't already know about because it might not be able to fetch them
- as far as determining whether or not to accept posts FROM the instance, this is probably pretty easy
- as far as federating posts TO the instance is concerned, this might be a bit more difficult
@noelle oh yeah this *would* be useful there lol
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