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@ada @effy right, my point is that the number of non-mastodon instances who actually follow our users is slim (and single-user ones already are exempt)

i have no qualms about silencing large non-mastodon instances with full text search; we believe it to be an antipattern which escalates conflict and results in context collapse

if the instance is small and doesn't follow our users, it is probably beneath our concern

@Chronotope it is my understanding that patches exist in PR #2 and #3 here: https://github.com/VyrCossont/mastodon/pulls

see this previous discussion in glitch-soc (closed without merging) for more interested parties: https://github.com/glitch-soc/mastodon/pull/1502

and of course it has come up various other times in the past as well. i’m trying not to be too harsh on any specific instances for wanting this, while still setting a firm boundary desired by our users.

@effy the same way (insofar as we federate with them, which, for the most part we don’t)

obviously i’m not manually checking the source code for every single instance we interact with, but this is a good baseline rule for any instance which is receiving a large number of our posts, and something to fall back on if we ever encounter any problems

critics praised every part of the movie except for what it had to say, they didn't like that part at all

it does require semi‐decent lighting though lol

i don’t want to have to touch my computer to scroll while i’m reading fic

figuring out how to use head pointer and dwell lol

you ever just see the straightest post

tired!

GlitchCat Policy on Global Fulltext Search

By default, Mastodon only allows fulltext searching on posts that a user has interacted with.

Some instances have recently decided to remove that limitation. This document comprises our policy with respect to those instances.

https://github.com/GlitchCatFedi/Policy/blob/main/Global%20Fulltext%20Search.markdown

#MastoAdmin

it's raining cats and dogs
it's snowing men

@egnor lack of practice

bush said full text search was bad once so clearly as progressives we are obliged to support it

@gaditb hmm well i mean technically I’M acting as a mod and developer of a fork but :P

@gaditb i typically approach these questions from the position of a designer, like, “assuming that there are artists who won’t go viral, and assuming that those artists are potentially the most interesting and radical artists and the least supported, shouldn’t they be our focus?”

i think changing the conversation from being about “all artists” and instead acknowledging that the field of artists is not flat and there are some which need our support rather than others… you have to start there