Lady @Lady@cat.family

if you wanted my mastodon expertise you could have @'d me at any time in the past four years

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.