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   Allan Haverholm (haverholm@imaginair.es)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 23:38:22 JST Allan Haverholm

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   Because @rra claimed that .social is unblockable due to its size, I'm going to try and mute that instance for the remainder of July. In fact, I'll do him one better and mute .art as well, just to see how my feed changes.

   IIRC, "mute domain" actually means "block domain", so I'll be unfollowing a handful of people and also cutting off some followers... Nothing personal, consider this your "get out of jail free" card, no pressure to re-follow when my experiment is over.

   Sorry to .social and .art followers, I'll be back on 1 August!

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     Allan Haverholm (haverholm@imaginair.es)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 23:38:18 JST Allan Haverholm

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     This experiment with individual instance blocking also tickles the part of my mind that is always considering setting up a self hosted, single user instance:

     Rather than working with large instance block lists, I would like to build a whitelist instead, and only federate with a steadily growing number of server. I call it the "grandpa method" because it's so clearly not about being instantly in touch with everyone, anywhere.

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     Allan Haverholm (haverholm@imaginair.es)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 23:38:19 JST Allan Haverholm

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     I'll have to let the planet spin at least once to judge how the slimmed down feed behaves over a Friday night.

     Here's hoping that cutting out three major instances will give more space for toots from the weirder corners of the fediverse!

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     Allan Haverholm (haverholm@imaginair.es)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 23:38:21 JST Allan Haverholm

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     I went and muted misskey.io as well because tbh the number of manga loli upskirt drawings I can be bothered with at any given day is <n. So that was quarter of a million otaku gone with one fell swoop.

     The feed is already much calmer!

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     Allan Haverholm (haverholm@imaginair.es)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 23:38:28 JST Allan Haverholm

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     I've already curated my feeds rather ruthlessly according to my own interests and sensibilities, just to sluice the stream a bit. Add to those the many domains that my instance admin has blocked, that's a lot of blacklist to keep adding to!

     Instead, I would be building a FOAF, interest based network. It would be a splinternet for sure, and one with limited discovery of new instances, but that appeals to my near-analog, small web sensibilities, wizened as they are by middle age 😛

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     Allan Haverholm (haverholm@imaginair.es)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 23:38:37 JST Allan Haverholm

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     Obviously, the weak point in that approach is the lack of discovery, which means that an instance federated by whitelist only could go from safe space to echo chamber real quick.

     I have zero interest in a stagnated timeline of other near-50, white, cishet dudes. Which is also why I'm hoping to see more users from the smaller instances now that the deafening chatter from the big servers has gone away.

     I only cut down the big oak to give space for the undergrowth 😉