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stop dming each other, im an instance admin and everyone's dms are completely filling up my home timeline and im struggling to keep up with reading them all

#Introduction

Step 1: wake up
Step 2: clean up harassment
Step 3: continue to feel like there's a need for a community-managed blocklist and a by-default-limited-federation for new instances, so that the new hate speech instances don't immediately get to harass us all
Step 4: except that has other issues and it's all hard why are people so awful ugh

there is a guy on hacker news who is trying to write an activitypub node without having ever used the fediverse. this can only go well. software engineers only ever make correct assumptions about things they have no experience with

script for gts that replaces all words on the web frontend with meow

Keep in mind that almost all of the fediverse (including almost all Mastodon instances) is run by volunteers!

You should adjust your expectations accordingly - nobody is trying to sell you anything here, but that also means that you cannot make the sort of demands that you might make of a corporation.

And don't forget to send a donation to your instance admin!

#FediTips

he lives in the sink

@dumpsterqueer i read 'businessy' in the most normal way

Just resist the urge. Because you're not going to think to check for robots.txt, but you ought to, that's how we communicate we don't want to be involved. You're probably not going to bother to read the various terms of service for the instances you touch, many of which explicitly ask you not to do any scraping or automated activity beyond normal use of the service. You're not going to know to respect people using the NoBot hashtag that was meant to prevent automated follows. You're certainly not going to parse user profiles and pinned posts to learn how people like to be approached, what will get you blocked, or even think to heavily throttle your activity because instances are falling over in response to load.

Whatever your thing is, make it 100% opt-in. Make it appropriate for a significantly more at-risk user than you are. Make sure it forgets things, purges info about servers it can't contact, can't operate in any sort of logged-in mode where consent is an issue.

We will straight up help advertise your cool thing if it respects users properly and takes the time to consider the safety and preferences of every person involved. There are a lot of fun, thoughtfully-designed toys! And there are a lot of people really tired of having to come and tell you off when you wanted to help, honestly. Help yourself and ask around before you flip on your cool new thing, let folks point out what you're missing.

Lost the post - but the new folks who are making a list of academics by discipline and making it public

Y'all are getting peoples consent before doing so, no?
Asking cause I don't want to be on there, and I want to make sure that doesn't happen.