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   Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jan-2023 04:38:36 JST Alex Gleason

   This project really exemplifies how Mastodon has failed to achieve the one thing it wanted to accomplish: https://github.com/eigenmagic/fediblockhole

   A tool for keeping a Mastodon instance blocklist synchronised with remote lists.

   The broad design goal for FediBlockHole is to support pulling in a list of blocklists from a set of trusted sources, merge them into a combined blocklist, and then push that merged list to a set of managed instances.

   I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: WHITELIST FEDERATION. MASTODON WANTS WHITELIST FEDERATION. WHITELIST FEDERATION.

   All of this work is being done to create and synchronize block lists… but they want to block more than 50% of the network!

   The solution is to build tooling around WHITELIST FEDERATION! Make your instance crawl for new servers, notify the admin, and have them manually review each new instance. If the right solution hit them in the face they wouldn’t recognize it!

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     Scooter Wadsworth (scooter@social.rebased.network)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jan-2023 04:44:49 JST Scooter Wadsworth

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     Opt IN is generally better than opt OUT. That said, most "open" technology is created by and for people that have spent far too much time in corporate software development ideologies that are driven by opt out flows (and difficult ones at that) because it's easier to trap "customers" that way.
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     Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jan-2023 04:44:57 JST Alex Gleason

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     • Scooter Wadsworth

     @scooter Great point.

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     kr0n0tu (kr0n0tu@gleasonator.com)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jan-2023 04:52:57 JST kr0n0tu

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     @alex But then they don't get the power kick from blocking. Consider that we are talking Mastodon Jannies here. It's the only means of power they have left as they are the lowest of lowest of failed males in the hierarchy
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     Logocopter 2.0 (logocopter@pp.logografos.com)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jan-2023 10:33:29 JST Logocopter 2.0

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     @alex The only reason they don't use whitelists is because they want "open federation" am I right? If they use whitelists they can federate with the approved instances, which would be helpful when trying to build a "safe space". I'm surprised they didn't know this existed (not much emphasis) and about how they were able to come up with something like this so fast.
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