tech? no! man, see...
@mattly contagious improvement sounds awesome, maybe a little over-optimistic, but who knows? =)
I'm running gotosocial for @technomancy@hey.hagelb.org and it's definitely rougher around the edges but the blocking functionality (from a user perspective) is roughly on par with mastodon; I don't know what mastodon is like from an admin perspective
but the gotosocial devs have identified this as a serious weakness and a priority to improve for future versions
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I must be missing something; there's got to be a way to filter your follows by domain so you can see what you'll lose when you block a domain, right? or are you supposed to just ... download the CSVs and grep it yourself?
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@mattly I have excellent instance admins so I while I completely believe the oft-repeated refrain of "mastodon's anti-abuse features are *sorely* lacking", I don't have very many opportunities to experience it firsthand myself
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@guites I have a weird branch of gotosocial that lets you write plugins in lua for filters and post modifications of arbitrary complexity (with sandboxing) but it's so daft that I'm afraid it would be very hard to justify mainlining
guites
@technomancy i really miss filters in general around here. Brb learning ruby
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@mattly yeeeeeah unfortunately I think the bottleneck for mastodon itself isn't necessarily labor so much as will to improve
from what I hear I feel like if you were going to try to contribute improvements, you'd get a much bigger payoff/effort improving gotosocial even with its dramatically smaller userbase; otherwise you'd just spend all your time convincing maintainers that things need to improve
maybe glitch-soc or hometown would be better? but again, dramatically smaller userbase
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@mattly I did run my weird plugin system for a while but I haven't kept it up to date with the latest releases and I wanted the new features more than the plugins
if I had a strong use case for the plugins I'd be a lot more inclined to sink the work into maintenance but at this point it's mostly "I just think they're neat"
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@mattly as the fediverse grows and it becomes difficult for new users to find open-regs servers that actually take moderation seriously, I think/hope it's going to be come more and more common for friend groups to have small private invite-only easy-to-run servers like gotosocial
that model just feels a lot more viable in the long run than 10k+ mega-instances with their constant admin burnout
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@chris @guites uhhh well, it's more like .. hard to justify adding a 20kloc dependency to the upstream project for a feature that most people aren't going to use, and also hard to justify maintaining something like this in the long term without having it be accepted upstream because there will be a lot of breaking changes in mainline gts that will break it
the fundamental idea itself isn't necessarily unsound, but it's a lot to ask of the upstream maintainers to accept it
chris
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@chris @guites not only is it a lot of code to add to the system, but the current implementation exposes implementation details of the way that posts are represented internally in gts
I'd imagine that the maintainers of gts would want the freedom to change how they represent posts without worrying about breaking API compatibility with who-knows-what plugins out there people have written
ideally there would be a supported long-term API for exposing this data, but that's also a big commitment for them and limits what they're able to do in a backwards-compatible way
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@prachisrivas I'm not an admin so in thin case it would only mean that users on that instance couldn't see posts from my own account
Prof Prachi Srivastava
@technomancy If one blocks a domain does that mean everyone on the instance you block it from no longer sees any account from that instance?
wink
@technomancy @mattly What clients are you using with GTS? I used semaphore.social as a browser client but development seems to have stalled.
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