maloki 🍵Jun 19, 2019

On July 4th Gab is coming on to the Fediverse by switching over to Mastodon on their servers.

This means that you can shut the door on them today by preemptively have them fully suspended from your instances. So your users do not have risk getting harassed by any of their users, and they from the start be blocked off from major portions of the Fediverse.

Thank you for your consideration and 

Show threadSelfsameSynonymJun 19, 2019

@maloki unless Eugen has a big change of heart recently, suspending instances doesn’t keep them from seeing you or getting your data.

It doesn’t stop them from responding to, boosting, or faving your toots. It just makes it so you don’t see any of it.

Show threadmaloki 🍵
@SelfsameSynonym Well, it's a step one. And Florence does have a chance to add features on here. If people submit the PRs we'll accept them especially in regards to this.
Jun 19, 2019 at 11:53pmWeb
Show threadSelfsameSynonymJun 20, 2019

@maloki suspending their instances is definitely something to do.

Are privacy tools like domain blocking not already in the backlog?

Show threadmaloki 🍵Jun 20, 2019

@SelfsameSynonym I'm not sure what you mean.

You can read the issues in the repo of you want more details right this moment.

I'm in bed, and about to fall asleep, because medicine.
I'll get back to you tomorrow.