@masstransitkrow It was in your own reason for blocking this instance. It has since then been removed because it was never intended to cause problems but clearly did. If you want to reject this instance entirely in MRF, feel free. I do sincerely apologize for the confusion. I do not know who the user is who screenshot that. We interacted with a single thread they authored yesterday and then they sent that. I am unclear as to why. We’ll not do such things in the future.
@arcana I was acting on external advice. I kinda feel that some instance blocks are overblown, and as a Pleroma user, I also want to prioritize keeping the network intact
@masstransitkrow Nah, you’re good. It was a stupid meme on our part, lol. We respect others’ boundaries completely, and we really like the ability to block at a granular level provided by ActivityPub as a protocol. That level of respect is the root of much of our instance’s rules tbh.
@masstransitkrow It’s honestly not an invalid assessment. In our case we require all posts with NSFW media to be hashtagged with nsfw if IRL or r18 if fictional. Our theory is that instances that would rather not see one or both types of posts can just block the hashtagged posts entirely in MRF. But we don’t know of any other instances that operate this way, to be fair.
@masstransitkrow Also I need to get around to watching Escape From New York. What I saw of it was great but somehow I never watched the full film. ADHD moment much lol.
@masstransitkrow Your block of media was honestly written very clearly and was well thought-out. I still found it rather amusing, is all. Hope there are no hard feelings! We’re chill here. It’s an 18+ instance, and most of the users are queer, and many of the users are programmers. So uh. There’s a certain sense of humor that is rather common among queer programmers that I have picked up on. offers fist bump
@masstransitkrow Blocking .moe is perhaps overly ambitious, but many of the instances do allow R18 content, occasionally untagged. And we totally respect a desire to simply not bother trying to sort through all that.
@masstransitkrow Really? Odd. I didn’t know that Mastodon lacked those features. But it doesn’t surprise me. Always found it rather odd that the maintainer of the project opposed a bunch of extremely popular community-suggested PRs. Hence us going with Akkoma per a friend’s recommendation. We were considering learning some Elixir programming at some point anyway. Thanks for explaining this. Truly.
@arcana to further that point, Pleroma and related forks store statuses in their true format in the database.
According to Ilja and Hael, that permits extensibility. They believe Mastodon introduces too much overhead with regards to statuses. But Alex thinks that the database is the weakest link in terms of overall instance performance.
I recently updated to 2.5 and they added new indexes, likely to support post edits.
@masstransitkrow Yeah, I can totally see how that would be the case. We also quite like how Akkoma and Pleroma allow users to both mute and hide muted words at the account level. We’ve discovered that while muting a domain does not allow hiding threads containing it, for example, muting the domain name as a word succeeds in that regard since usernames include the domain as part of the message body. And the entire message body is parsed in the filter.
@masstransitkrow Ah, yeah. We heard about Mastodon not allowing edits. That’s just odd IMO. I have RSI and other physical health issues besides. So I frequently make typos, and occasionally I like to be able to go back and correct them. Not being another Twitter is a nice thing to me. I also allow long-form posts here since some of the users on this isntance came from a Tumblr background instead of a Twitter one. And there’s no reason Akkoma can’t accommodate both.
@masstransitkrow Beware Delete & redraft btw. The implemenation is just odd in ActivityPub. If it is done with a reply, the redrafted reply no longer actaully replies, thus breaking the thread. We learned that early on. You may already be aware, though. It is really quite strange.