Lady @Lady@cat.family

there is something really horrifying happening in the glitchsoc frontend codebase

maybe instead of doing a discord‐style ||spoiler|| i should just do a custom elements‐style <spoiler-text> as that would at least make stripping internal markup easier (and also be easier to support in html)

like it kinda sucks that your ||very important spoiler you *don’t* want people to see|| doesn’t actually get spoilered because you accidentally put an <em> tag in there

that’s unintuitive, but also i have no easy way of federating that <em> tag and it’s way easier to just only process text nodes

it’s a bit of a problem how to handle spoiler tags which contain markup; right now i’m just Not Supporting Them. a Better solution would probably be to strip the markup but that is computationally much more difficult

got it in the backend

mrrrrrrh i wanna make things work in mastodon

« In 2022, Ontario Teachers' invested in a $420 million series B-1 funding round for cryptocurrency exchange FTX, through its Teacher's Innovation Platform. » ouch

do i need to boost the toots

do not recommend inhaling tea

anyway if someone wants to resurrect @Sprite i’m not complaining

« Brands Town is the first ever Mastodon Instance dedicated solely to corporate brand promotion. » it isn’t though??

the Twitter corpus was never a comprehensive or unbiased sample

hint: the ones who care about safety are the ones who say things like “you’re a cop? goodbye”

it’s really obvious from like a few seconds which moderators actually care about the safety of the people here, and which moderators care about cultivating a certain kind of liberal space or discussion platform with no considerations made for the fundamental vulnerabilities of being human, or not Enough for them to sacrifice their perfect vision of Liberalism in favour of actual measures to protect users

what this means for YOU, new fedi instance owner, is that your priority should be not on ensuring your users have produced Appropriately Formatted Content™, but rather on ensuring that you can keep US safe

if you are, say, an instance dedicated to journalism, and you don’t have specific policy guidelines for ensuring that your users won’t do things to put our users in jeopardy, bye

previous post is obviously an oversimplification, but if i found out that someone here had another account and was actively following someone we had blocked, my response would be “okay, well that’s your risk to take, just don’t bring that shit on our doorstep”

expect this to be spelled out in more detail later, but genuine #FediTips for #NewHere users:

moderation on Mastodon isn’t about what content we can see, but about who gets to see us. our goal is not to shield our users from objectionable content, but to protect them from objectionable individuals.

“objectionable” means: • nazis  • cops  • replyguys  • scrapers  • people who cite posts without asking permission first  • people who want us dead  • people who damage the integrity of our communities  • people who want to make money off of us

these people get the boot. if we want to read what they have to say, we can always create an account somewhere else. they don’t get to read us.