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   BeAware (beaware@social.beaware.live)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Apr-2024 07:40:04 JST BeAware

   PSA: Since Threads apparently will be federating replies soon, I thought I should post this again, because there's still a lot of people that don't know.

   When a normal user uses "block this domain" it's LITERALLY just a MUTE. The blocked server can still see, interact, and reply to your posts, you just won't be able to see them.

   It's kinda like sitting in a room with hungry bears while wearing a blindfold. If you're scared of hungry bears, your best bet is to get out of the room, not put a blindfold on. And by this, I simply mean to migrate to an instance where the blocks are up to your standard on the "instance" level.

   Stay informed and make informed decisions, no matter what you choose to do with your Fediverse presence.

   #Fediverse #MastoTips #FediTips #Fedi #ActivityPub #Threads #Meta

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     Patrick (ppb1701@ppb.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Apr-2024 07:45:58 JST Patrick

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     @BeAware And now I’m thinking of “Alone” and the many times the contestants were going “Hey Bear” 🐻

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     Patrick (ppb1701@ppb.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Apr-2024 07:48:50 JST Patrick

     @BeAware My wife and I enjoy watching it. We like it better than stuff like survivor since it’s less head games and what not.

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     Patrick (ppb1701@ppb.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Apr-2024 07:51:39 JST Patrick

     @BeAware It’s wait we tend to do, though we pause or rewind frequently for splitting attention to phones, discussions about it or what was on a phone, or whatever (“Squirrel!”).

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     agent of chaos (marta@corteximplant.com)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Apr-2024 07:59:33 JST agent of chaos

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     @BeAware from my understanding an instance block without authorized fetch (off by default and has big problems) or a firewall block also works like you said. The post can be seen and interacted with by a fediblocked remote instance.

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     agent of chaos (marta@corteximplant.com)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Apr-2024 08:17:31 JST agent of chaos

     @BeAware on my instance we have a firewall block of the Facebook IP ranges which I think is a nice solution because of authorized fetch's problems. (In addition to just fediblocking them)

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     :mima_rule: Mima-sama (mima@makai.chaotic.ninja)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Apr-2024 14:21:14 JST :mima_rule: Mima-sama

     • agent of chaos

     @BeAware@social.beaware.live #AuthorizedFetch is definitely a proprietary extension to #ActivityPub by #Mastodon. First added in 2019: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/11269
     
     The main reason other AP implementations have added it (or in the case of #Misskey, made signing objects enabled by default which was a reluctant decision) as well despite Authorized Fetch / #SecureMode not being documented in the spec is that plenty of big #MastoAdmins have enabled it for their instances thinking it will prevent harassment from instances they've blocked (despite the fact that AF is purely #securitytheater), forcing the rest of the #fediverse to adopt it to remain compatible. Even at the cost of performance (no more caching).
     
     This is plain ol' #EmbraceExtendExtinguish or #EEE for short against AP and the fedi by the Mastodon monopoly, and nobody wants to talk about it because it undermines the narrative a lot of Mastodon admins are putting out to justify their fediblocking of #Threads. Would've been fine if they focused on the (real) harms #Facebook did to Burma for example, that's a totally fine reason to block FB. But screaming EEE just makes me roll my eyes on their #hypocrisy. :seija_coffee:
     
     @marta@corteximplant.com
     
     #fediversemeta #fediblockmeta

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     Rachel Lawson (rachel@norfolk.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Apr-2024 23:21:06 JST Rachel Lawson

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     @BeAware if you can’t see replies, what does it matter that people are sending them?

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     Rachel Lawson (rachel@norfolk.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Apr-2024 23:30:15 JST Rachel Lawson

     @BeAware hang on - I asked about their posts, not mine. What does it matter if they reply when I can see them shouting at the wall?

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     Rachel Lawson (rachel@norfolk.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Apr-2024 23:35:21 JST Rachel Lawson

     @BeAware clearly.
     All of your posts are available to anyone who wants to read them, unless you take extraordinary measures to lock down what is accessible to anonymous viewers of your server. Virtually nobody does that.
     So, anyone, anywhere, on any platform, can already link to and discuss what you have to say today.