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ugh not a fan of the non-configurable mastodon 4.0 unauthenticated web view, and the way it forces AUTHORIZED_FETCH enabled instances to expose their REST api to the world

subtoot lol 

> does anyone know a horror instance

mastodon.social hah

Hey there, Admin of the Internet Archive Mastodon here. I've seen some people speculate/rumor that the Archive's mastodon instance is set up to be an involuntary vacuum spot for all toots passing back into the Wayback, and it is NOT that. Any archiving of toots would be some other project (and outside my knowledge) but the Internet Archive Mastodon is just another instance, doing the mastodon thing. Communicate with us at will.

picking a mastodon server to join is easy -- just think of it like you're allying with one of many families in a war-torn medieval land, each with their own histories, feuds, laws, blood rituals

People that run an instance are like cat looker-afterers and we are the cats

what i've learned from moderating efdn these years has been that if someone doesn't respond positively to the first time you ask them to knock it off and stop being a shithead, you should just immediately suspend them because you're not going to get through to them

baarely made my train, with super hurried cycling + almost running in the station..

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how the fuck am i supposed to get out of bed when it's so cold

Fedi meta about defederation 

Every time I see a user on another instance say "but mods/admins shouldn't defederate, users should have to block hate themselves"

I think to myself "Okay, start your own server so I can block it".

My job, a huge part of my job, is making sure my users are safe from abuse and harassment and awful content. That often means dropping entire servers for lax/no moderation and, yes, a "free speech" stance.

Defederate early, defederate often.

@doot the difference between instance admins and landlords is that instance admins actually have to work pretty hard

.torrent files: downloading stuff so you can download stuff

puzzle, regex (screenreader-unfriendly) 

So, here's a regular expression (JS flavour):

^(?=( +|\t+))\1(?:\t| )

This regex matches (at the start of a line) both "1+ spaces followed by a tab" and "1+ tabs followed by a space", but it does *not* match a sequence of just spaces or just tabs.

How does it work?

(Make sure to CW your answers please!)

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