Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

see this is why, as someone perpetually broke and historically poor, i don't like listening to rich people for budgeting advice. musk spent 44 billion dollars to get humiliated in public but everyone knows that there are people who can do that for like £2000

Yesterday I posted about worries re. moderation at mastodon.social/.online:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/on-our-policy-74436103

And asked the community to feed back about whether they'd like to do nothing, 'silence', or 'defederate'. The response was almost entirely in favour of silencing.

Today, especially after noticing that those two instances DO federate with an instance that hosts fascist content, we went ahead with that silence:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/74474015

Thank you, .art, for supporting a solid no-nazi stance. <3

why do we have a system for advertising instances unworthy of federating with but not one for advertising the good instances?

on a scale of 0 to 10 where 0 is fully blocked and 10 is fully federating, it sucks that our current system is to make every instance a 10 automatically and then only with manual admin action turn that to a 1 or a 3

turning it to a 0 requires direct firewall access because even with authenticated fetch mastodon still sometimes voluntarily sends information to instances you have blocked

some instances (this one included) have public blocklists, which is a nice way to gauge an instance's morals, but a very bad way to actually deal with instances worthy of being blocked because doing so would require admins to constantly re-read the block lists of instances they trust and play "spot the difference"

and if your software is creating work rather than making work easier, you've created a bad game rather than a good tool

so here's my multi-part proposal:

don't instantly fully trust new instances. it's too easy for a bad actor to simply switch domain names and become fully trusted again. we've seen it hundreds of times.
allow automatic sharing of instance trust information. basically, an admin would enter information they know about another instance into a box, along with evidence and a verdict on what level of federation should be done, and that information would be immediately shared to other instances that have established mutual trust.
trust for federation information could be anything from "ignore" to "notify admins" to "automatically apply", on a per-domain basis.
establish a better entry procedure into federation. why can't we have a setting to notify admins about new instances so they can proactively vet them?
and finally, as long as we're giving admins more control over federation, why don't we also extend that to reports? the current system where a user can report a remote post and has to choose at the time of the report whether to send it to the remote instance sucks. that should be an admin decision, and reports should be able to be forwarded to any instance, not just the reported one.

of course we'll never get any of this until website boy stops running the show, because twitter doesn't have any federation-based moderation features either

#mastodev

Ok ngl, silencing social/online have actually made the federated timeline way better. Not having to see five million newcomers being confused about this place is refreshing. I can see actually interesting stuff by people and also wow so many instances i don’t recognize because they’re usually drowned by the two Big Ones.

Whats our plan for racists on the fediverse? I was just excited by seeing #BlackMastodon yesterday and today I see people I was happy to see on here have already faced harassment.

Seeing some longtime fedi creatures patiently explain the culture here to folks from the birdsite influx, sometimes dealing with unnecessarily combative attitudes in response. Please take breaks when you need to.
Thank you to those that have come here and have taken the time to listen and adapt to the gentler atmosphere we've cultivated here.

If you are not an #admin

please use #fediblock even though you were told not to

I created the tag
and it is for all of us to use

I've been watching the twitter flood with my ironic broken-brained detachment and also popcorn but the one thing making my blood pressure spike is all the people who've been here 5 minutes reporting people for posting fully-CW'd nudes/lewds because 'that's not the energy we need here. We don't do that here'. We, in fact, DO do 'that' here and have been doing 'that' here for many years. Take your swerf energy and fuck off to mumsnet

As Web 3.0 as a term has been utterly ruined by cryptobros, I propose the next version of the web will be Web 95.

I'm going to share this again, so new to Fedi people can see that there is a big community of people with chronic illness here.

There is also a some groups** you can follow here on the Fedi:

@mecfs
@chronicillness
@disability
@longcovid

If you follow these groups, you'll get any toots from people* who include this account in their toots when they are sharing #MECFS posts etc. You can add this to your toots about mecfs etc too.

*including researchers, you are very welcome!

**Groups are a free tool that anyone can use to set up for other illnesses, etc.

#MECFS #ChronicIllness #LongCovid #Disability #Fibromyalgia

@mart0 @dantescanline @anarchistbicycleclub i apologize for butting in, but

.ONSEN - a parallel universe Steam client from the year 200X

#UI #FUI #Design #Y2K

Now i know why musk entered twitter HQ with a sink. Cause he was about to sink the company.

you know, i remember a lot of weird toys and tools that people built on top of twitter's API back in the day. i bet there could be a lot here that *are* opt-in and *not* suited for keyword harassment