When visiting a user profile on Pixelix, a small icon at the top is indicating the Fediverse software which the profile is using. This icon can be clicked to open a dialog with more information about the software and the server.
Previous versions of Pixelix fetched this data from FediDB. With our latest Pixelix update we exchanged the FediDB dependency with our own service called FediSea.
More information about FediSea: https://fedisea.surf
@unattributed Fixed it, gotosocial should be discoverable in the search now. Thanks for the bug report!
We blacklisted it in early versions because of some troll instances and forgot to remove the blacklist :)
@Pixelix Okay....but blocking a whole platform because of some troll instances doesn't sound like a good policy. There have definitely been more Mastodon troll instances than any other platform... Does blocking the whole Mastodon platform over some troll instances make sense?
IMO - better policy would be to use one (or more) of the ban lists to block troll instances rather than blocking a whole platform.
@unattributed I am sorry, I think I didn't explain it correctly.
The whole FediSea project is very new and we just blocked the whole Gotosocial software as a development help. Actually now we are using exactly the same solution you proposed, a blocklist for single servers. We just forgot to remove the filter from the search page.
@Pixelix Now you are making things worse. What about blocking a whole platform is a "development help"? Why would you want to block a platform that has hundreds of instances, instead of one that has 5-10 instances that no one is likely to miss?
I ignored whether it was a front or back end issue (ie "...remove the filter from the search page.") because it is irrelevant.
If the aim of the project is to obtain stats on GTS users, just be careful because GTS has a configuration that may create false number of users if the admin enables it.
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