Work in progress: A standalone #fediverse #activitypub bot, hosted on https://glitch.com and written with #node #nodejs.

You can import it to Glitch from http://github.com/fourtonfish/glitch-fediverse-bot.

More updates, like support for images and replies are coming soon, for now you can play with the #tracery example.

The fediverse is impressively hungry for anti-harassment tools!

The other day, I released https://t5.codesections.com/ —a tool to learn who you favorite most. It's a fun tool and spread widely with 30 boosts.

Yesterday, I released https://mastodon-de-mob.codesections.com/ As an anti-harassment tool you only use when being actively mobbed, I thought it would be of niche interest.

But instead, it's been boosted nearly 100 times(!), and is still going strong.

@Gargron this might tell you what features people want

I've just released Mastodon De-Mob, an anti-harassment tool that lets users to block everyone who favorited or boosted a toot calling for harassment. https://mastodon-de-mob.codesections.com/

Please feel free to test it out with the example URL I provided; that will only block a test account I set up for this purpose. Hopefully, you won't ever need it for real.

It also reports the harassing toot, which I hope will prevent the tool's abuse for non-harassing toots.

source: https://github.com/codesections/mastodon-de-mob

A challenger approaches!! Learn the backstory behind The Most Controversial Article Ever About Mastodon (at least until this blogseries finishes #yolo) and everyone's fav trashgirl who wrote it.

New blogpost:
Fringe Mastodev – Part II: Enter Allie Hart

https://go.kibi.family/Sep/2018/fringe-allie.xhtml

"This week people in our community confronted me about my lifetime of
not understanding emotions. My flippant attacks in emails have been
both unprofessional and uncalled for. Especially at times when I made
it personal. In my quest for a better patch, this made sense to me.
I know now this was not OK and I am truly sorry."

https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/9/16/167

So, if for nothing else than to help people learn from our mistakes, I'd like to start compiling accounts of the unravelling/failure of social.coop.

I will be reaching out to particular people over the next few days, but if anyone out there left/chose not to join social.coop for Reasons and would be willing to talk about it (anonymously if you want), please DM.

Please boost for visibility.

#meta #socialcoop