technomancynow that I've upgraded to gotosocial 0.21 I'll be muting accounts on mastodon.social that I don't already follow
I get it that account migration is a pain but please consider finding a better instance!
when I first switched to gotosocial in mid-2023 it was a little rough; there were some missing features I had gotten used to from mastodon, but still worth it
over the years they've improved things, mostly caught up, and even gone significantly further than mastodon in some cases (markdown, reply controls)
being able to do this kind of selective muting where it doesn't sever connections to accounts you already follow is the last of the features I was missing from Mastodon!
great job to the gotosocial team for really knocking it out of the park; a joy to use and even a joy to administer
chop wood, carry water@technomancy if you don't mind me asking, how hard was it to switch server software?
@bjc oh, I didn't switch server software; I still have my old alt up at https://icosahedron.website/@technomancy on someone else's server
starting my own was very easy: https://technomancy.us/201
but it's even easier now that you can install thru apt: https://apt.technomancy.us/
tech? no! man, see... (@[email protected])
15.1K Posts, 120 Following, 2.6K Followers · tryin' to catch the last train out of Omelas https://technomancy.us/colophon this is my older alt account but I'm more active on gotosocial at @[email protected]
@technomancy thanks, that makes sense. it's kind of a shame that it's easier to change domains than swap out server software.
turns out there's already a freebsd package for gts, so i think i'll spend this weekend trying it out. have you switched frontends from pinafore since the author's stopped maintaining it?
@bjc yes, I'm using enafore now
it has some bugs that pinafore didn't, but it collapses repeated notifications so it's totally worth it
Ed Davies@technomancy The one thing I find irritating about GTS (as a Mastodon user) is that it treats quiet-public posts as private if you try to browse to them - so there's no way to see a post's replies (or what it's replying to) if they haven't percolated to your instance. I think that's a bug, frankly. Mastodon does let you browse to them.
@edavies I don't know what "quiet public" is, but the fact that unlisted posts are, well, unlisted is ... well, I quite like it
I mean, I will use public if I want a post to be public
@technomancy Dunno but I assume “quiet public“ and “unlisted“ are the same.
Yeah, unlisted is good for avoiding noise on the public timelines. But it's annoying not to be able to see the context of a post you can already see.
I can sort of see why they might do it - to avoid the posts being indexed by external indexers but that only means the posts shouldn't be included in the external timeline shown to non-logged-in browsers, not that they should be hidden completely.
@edavies looking at it more, I think "quiet public" is just a mastodon feature that gotosocial does not implement
But it's annoying not to be able to see the context of a post you can already see.
I think I might see what's going on here; on mastodon you have to leave your app and go to a public view of a post to see the context because mastodon doesn't fetch the thread context in the app (but gotosocial does, so you don't need that)
Alex ☕🇨🇦@technomancy having migrated 3 times myself, it's actually quite nice to parse down your follows and following list to just active users.
@Alexjgriffith hah! guess I hadn't considered this angle
I think it's fair to be attached to your posting history; there are tools like https://github.com/VyrCossont/slurp but it's not as seamless as most people want
@technomancy fair! I do appreciate a good boost of an old toot, from back when they were still called toots.
λzyd@technomancy Do you mean muting individual accounts manually or the entire insurance? If the latter, how so? Sounds like I should upgrade my gts instance soon.
@zyd here's the lowdown; newly added in 0.21: https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/stable/admin/domain_limits/
it automatically mutes all accounts on the instance except the ones you already follow
@technomancy Sick, thanks, couldn't find it in the docs myself as I didn't know what topic it was dubbed.
Kirill Chernyshov@technomancy such a strong Kin-dza-dza! vibe. hilarious and sad at the same time
Ben Zanin@technomancy I really will. Been putting it off for years.
@gnomon I do make an exception for people who signed up in 2018 or earlier, and I follow you already so the muting isn't applied, but... wouldn't hurt all the same