Lady @Lady@cat.family

@iliana it’s a trust thing, right? not being able to trust the instances you are federating with is the same sort of thing (and this is a criticism) which drives bluesky folks to the blockchain

if instances could acknowledge trust (and many mastodon instances do informally trust each other) then they could not only supply each other with things like OG tags but actually fill in missing information which might not be provided at the source

i FEEL LIKE “let my instance say it trusts icosahedron.website not to be evil” was a solution proposed the last time this conversation went around but obviously that hasn’t gone anywhere in the time since then

@aescling

document[Baron.symbol].register(
Lune.accountUpdate,
(account) => {
if (isCatIRI in account.metadata) {
account.isCat = !/^(?:no|false)?$/iu.test(account.metadata[isCatIRI]);
}
},
);

document[Baron.symbol][Lune.elements].account = IsMaybeCatAccountElement;

@aescling and it should be possible via a userscript! with very little effort!

@aescling like i fully want Lune to have support for transforming accounts via profile metadata in a modular way and that's a big reason why i've designed Baron the way i have

a simple module that listens for an account update event, checks its metadata, and assigns a property based on what it finds there is exactly the kind of thing i want to enable

@aescling isCat is exactly why we need good, forkable mastodon clients in addition to servers

@aescling ok but consider: meowstodev guppe group

@witchfynder_finder games can have violence or they can have skateboards. no violence and no skateboards? boring

@aescling it's nontrivial but it's like asking what the environmental impact of the publishing industry is

yeah books are a lot of paper but it pales in comparison with spam mail

@aescling a trends concern that both controllers include might still be easy, seems a bit weird but maybe could work?