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actually what the fuck is up with Mastodon's documentation straight up having a guide "Playing with public data"

It's like you *want* more shitty scraper projects

docs.joinmastodon.org/client/p

@eniko making my own fedi client is getting stuck on all sorts of things, but there are lots of little tweak ideas like this i'd love to play around with

@eniko yes!! and I also want a "create filter from this post" type thing

at least glitch-soc has UI to dismiss notifications, but that was quite an issue for me too sometimes, with meh stuff just staying in view in that column for ages

re: Fediblock rec 

@Shrigglepuss kinda incredible how this thread was able to attract 2 new instances for our already extensive blocklist.. (which already covered the others)

re: Fediblock rec 

@Shrigglepuss and nyanide.com (has 2 subdomains), in the same thread, no defeds, describes itself as alt/dark fedi

@goat@hellsite.site catch me in the ballpit at smellcon

also training the kitten young to not be bothered by camera beeps and shutter clicks

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ohhh this is cool, I got the slightly more expensive M42 to Canon EF adaptor from aliexpress with an identification chip, and now it does focus beeping (even though it's still a vintage lens with manual focus), and has more accurate exposure in liveview

re: fosstodon admin bigotry, more background from 2019 

@packbat it's been archived here archive.is/WkbCV

Hey Science, I need a tube in my kitchen so I can shout "butter, you dickhead" into it and I'll hear that two days ago when I'm standing in the middle of the supermarket thinking "what was I out of again?"

Furthermore, I encourage any FOSS projects who have accounts on fosstodon.org to either move to an instance of their own where feasible or move to a better FOSS oriented instance.

The FOSS community at large deserves better than what fossotodon.org can deliver.

Like do you really want your FOSS project's account on a instance where the admin behaves like *that*? or where it is policy that all posting must be in English.

Last time I checked, FOSS is supposed to be for everyone, not just people who speak English.

Clarification edit - FOSS stands for Free and Open Source Software.

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picking up a project I last touched 10 months ago and man I left it quite the wreck

re: AI Snark. Being broke snark. 

@weirdwriter sadly blocking scrapers is a never-ending battle. I try my best keeping an up-to-date list of ip's and user-agents to block for pixie.town, but there's new ones all the time, and particularly motivated attackers will always be able to evade shit.

Or in the case of Mastodon, just be able to get access to the same toots etc through webviews of other instances. I just suspended ryanak.xyz because they explicitly reverted the OpenAI block on their instance... github.com/Ryanaka/mastodon/co

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