@josemanuel Just want to say @boyter has been nothing but forthright in his communication with me and he raises some very solid points in his message on mastinator.com that folks in the fediverse would do well to think/act on. Specifically, those folks excitedly celebrating Tumblr, Mozilla, etc., setting up their own instances. Once instances of millions (if not hundreds of millions) exist, they’ll be making the rules. And blocking them will be like you blocking Gmail on your email server.
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Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 30-Dec-2022 17:54:30 JST Aral Balkan -
josemanuel@qoto.org's status on Friday, 30-Dec-2022 17:54:31 JST josemanuel I found this. Hope it helps everyone avoid the FUD:
https://boyter.org/posts/mastinator-activitypub-breaking-assumptions/
I must admit that I’m sympathetic to the author (@boyter, I think): it’s true that it’s difficult to test an AP implementation without some kind of infrastructure in place.
But I’m also with @aral: this should be opt-in.
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josemanuel@qoto.org's status on Friday, 30-Dec-2022 17:54:32 JST josemanuel I was just followed by an account(?) on mastinator.com. After careful consideration I decided to block the entire domain. Anyone (well, almost anyone) who wants to follow me is welcome, of course, but not anonymously. That’s not cool.
I may reverse this decision in the future if I get more information, but, for now, this is it.
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