Lady @Lady@cat.family

like nah, fuck that old mutual actually

you ever just type a helpful reply and then delete it

@gaditb well, i think there are also places you can pull from or send things to which aren't sites, because you can't *travel* there (i'm thinking of Atom feeds or ActivityPub inboxes and outboxes here)

@gaditb but “web” is more demanding as it implies a certain level of interoperability and connection, whereas a URL which can only be viewed in a specific app or with a specific login can be a site, but isn't a part of the web

@gaditb yes, but an API call isn't

so for me "site" means a particular set of technologies or capabilities (navigable via a URL, human-readable, “interactive” rendering of hypertext content) enabled by the internet, in contrast to other uses of the internet (things without URLs, things without frontends, etc)

@gaditb generally the distinction i make is more basic; if you treat it like a place then it's a site, and people treat onlyfans like a place (you can “go” there)

but idk i'm definitely not invested in defending it lol

@gaditb they're sites but they're not web

fansites are sites made BY fans, not FOR fans

this person just used the term “fansites” to mean onlyfans and 😔

(i made a hometown issue: <https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown/issues/1266>)

the downside to silencing is that being notified when a popular person boosts your post is a good thing and i really wish those notifications weren't muted

maybe we should fix this

if you have been averaging one new follower a day for over 100 days i don't relate to you

maybe like “more followers than max(100, age of account in days)”

people with lots of followers have a huge federation advantage and i don't like when our public timelines are full of their posts

considering a glitchcat policy of silencing anyone with over N followers

@Betty for example there are politicians on here who make untagged posts about politics. i might silence that politician because i expect posts about contemporary u.s. political events to have a CW. that doesn't mean i disagree with the politician or think people shouldn't follow them, but they don't conform to instance norms so i don't want them showing up in the public timelines. that way when someone checks the timeline they can rest assured that they won't see that content without an appropriate CW. they can still follow the politician directly if seeing their posts is important to them.

@Betty typically the reasons for silencing are one of the following:

1) admins actively don't want the account showing up on the public timelines, maybe because:
• account does not follow instance guidelines regarding things like CWs
• account makes posts which are considered spam

2) the instance (of the account) is not well-moderated, so admins can't guarantee the quality of the account (in this case, they probably haven't ever even looked at it individually)

in either case, if the account was known to be a problem it would be blocked, not just hidden, and you wouldn't be able to see it at all. it's more “we can't guarantee that this account will conform to the expectations you might have of other accounts on this server, because it's hosted somewhere else with different rules / worse moderation”

apparently employers are upset because they spend all their time training new employees only for them to leave

to which i reply, haha gottem

@Betty it could go either way; moderators can hide specific profiles OR entire instances and the software doesn't distinguish the two

@aescling did you intentionally make a poll which immediately closed or