I'm still pretty upset that furries largely chose Bluesky over Fedi, and Bluesky's decision to start haphazardly banning babyfurs is the main reason why. ​ Bluesky doesn't understand the intricacies of furries to moderate them, especially our various subcultures. The benefit of Mastodon et al. is that the servers are managed by people from your subculture.

A lot of my reservations about Bluesky being a Twitter 2.0 were hand-waved away because ATProto (the protocol Bluesky is built on) is federated like ActivityPub (the protocol the Fediverse/Mastodon is built on). ATProto is federated, yes, but it's not a protocol that promotes community-building like ActivityPub does. ATProto is a workbench for building out large monolithic social networks, instead of the tapestry of communities that make up the Fediverse. ATProto seems to focus on individual data sovereignty, while the Fediverse is focused on community sovereignty. Unfortunately, yes, that makes the Fediverse a little harder to use than ATProto AppViews, but ultimately I think it's worth it.

I dunno. I've rambled about this kind of thing a lot of times in the past, sorry I keep bringing it up. ​ Just something I enjoy thinking about.

#Bluesky #ATProto #FediMeta #MastoMeta #Fediverse #Mastodon #ActivityPub

I'm really leery of the new blocklist sharing feature being proposed as part of Masotdon's Sovereign Tech Agency funding. While I'm excited Mastodon is receiving an STF grant, blocklist abuse has been a recurring issue and I'm not eager to see it codified in the admin interface.

For those that weren't here a few years back, Mastodon has a pretty ugly history with blocklists. They've been repeatedly used to block sex positivity, kink, and LGBTQ+ content. While I agree there are a lot of really bad servers on the Fediverse, I'm nervous that blocklist sharing will lead to the same kinds of censorship we saw a few years back. Plus, and no shade to the people who use it, but the Fediblock hashtag has a lot of posts from people who operate on little to no proof of their claims, or who just want to abuse it.

To be totally honest though, my hangup with blocklists comes from the fact that CubHub still has to deal with being suspended by a lot of servers from a bad blocklist. We were wrongfully flagged because someone didn't bother to check our About page that clearly states we do not allow porn of under-age characters, because stupid people think "cub" automatically means cub porn. ​ It doesn't.

So yeah, I dunno. The other proposals look interesting, and, while I've never been one to think we really need E2EE on private messages and who thought it'd just introduce a lot of friction for users, I'm not opposed to it if they can get the UX of it working well.

#Mastodon #MastodonMeta #MastoMeta #Blocklist

So if you pop onto Mastodon and catch up some, how do you do it?

Boost for reach, if you would - I'm actually curious about this. I've been reordering toot chains when boosting for ages based on something I don't even know is true.

#mastodon #meta #fediverse #FediMeta #MastoMeta

I really need to get off my lazy ass and write an acceptable upload policy with more robust content warning guidelines, but I'm not exactly sure how or where to post an AUP page on Mastodon. ​ I don't want it to dominate the (already admittedly too long) About page.

#Mastodon #MastoMeta #MastodonMeta

Mastodon feature request:

Filters should work on trending article headlines

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/37816

Filters automatically hide posts from Mastodon users that contain the words you're filtering for.

This feature should work on articles on the /explore/links page, too.

If you agree, please click through to Github using the link above and add your 👍 at the bottom of the first post. You'll need a Github account, so if you don't have/want one, please boost instead.

#MastoMeta

What happens if you boost a toot from a Mastodon server that has gone offline (perhaps forever)? Does it work as normal, unless you try to visit the original website? Or do weird things break?

Below I will link to the test toot (that is currently unreachable). Next I will boost it.

@kateiacy https://med-mastodon.com/@kateiacy/115537310444405215

#Mastodon #MastoMeta #MedMastodon

Another reason instances (like .social) really should consider not having open signups is the sheer amount of dickpics posted in their public, federated timeline.
Same with porn.
There's a lot of (mostly) dudes who don't give a damn about the rule about marking NSFW content as sensitive, and I report stuff pretty much every time I browse the local timeline, and I assume the mods aren't just waiting around but are proactive too, so it's a continuous problem.

#Mastodon #mastometa #signups

Skal du gå vill med sitat-tuting nå?

#sitat #NorskTut #allheimen #MastoMeta