@waifu@theorytoe I usually make food for thought posts like this thread. That at least gets something started even though it's usually negative for mood reasons. Or post a random pic from my shitpost folder.
@waff@sendpaws It's very much the opposite. I want shitposting and random technical hellthreads that devolve into shitposting with little politics involved (With the only exception being free/open-source politics and related. That's inevitable considering the origin of this network). And there's very little of that currently. Or at least I see very little of that considering the people I follow.
@sendpaws I should have clarified that by dead I mean not interesting/nothing of value. Dead of potentially engaging and interesting posts if you will. Mastosoc and related has the 100% agreeable posts with zero value and hundreds/thousands of reactions with almost no replies. And we have Trump and jews. The end result is the same. Nothing of value.
@sendpaws@theorytoe They are already fucked up beyond repair. Kids are glued to phones almost constantly in public and young zoomie couples resort to watching short form brainrot on their phones instead of talking to each other on a train/public transport. Something I am always completely dumbfounded by.
>ironically real life seems to be more and more an escape from the internet, not the other way around It is and had been for some time at least for me. I've been taking much more breaks from social media in general. Mainly for my sanity reasons because I don't need to read about Trump all the time and also because there is less interesting posts to interact with. A lot of fedi was dumbed down to either a severe Trump Derangement Syndrome or thinking that constant nigga jokes are actually funny. And for both I blame Twitter :D
@sendpaws I know it's not coming back. At least not in the near future where tensions in communities will still be high. It's the same as with 90's Internet, that's not coming back ever. In 10 years? Nobody can probably tell for sure.
I thankfully wasn't part of any community that went apeshit over politics.
On a related note, was it intentional that the status history button was removed from the extra_buttons component or whatever it's named after the switch to pinnable buttons or was it unintentionally left behind?
Also just to let you know, some of the CSS classes that are used for the extra buttons behind the 3-dot menu on posts and in other spots get picked up by some 3rd-party filters on uBO. Mainly the EasyList annoyances list and the obvious AdGuard Social widgets one. I know that these extensions are technically unsupported and trying to fix it is a never-ending battle, but maybe expect some complaints in the issue tracker from missing buttons whose outline only shows up when editing the pinned buttons.
@tadano I don't really know of any sane places. Many of the people that left, left in "chunks" with most of the community around them and still remain in contact in private over XMPP/IRC/whatever. It's not like they disappeared completely. You just don't see them.
@sendpaws Politics have rotted almost everyone's mind. They've made it their personality. Everywhere you go on the Internet except some random niche blogs that basically don't exist anymore, there are people talking about politics with flags in usernames while taking sides on the $current_topic. It didn't use to be that way a decade ago.
@mint@fba >I hope they're ont getting this number from public APIs since hiding blocklists became quite common ever since FBA entered the public consciousness. I think they have access to hidden instance blocklists from at least a few bigger instances. And since you must login with your Mastodon admin account to their blocklist portal, they might have access to all instance blocklists from instances that use IFTAS.
As for what IFTAS does, they run a blocklist that isn't available to the public without logging in with a Mastodon account and possibly creating an account with them (IFTAS Connect/CARIAD/FediCheck). And also publish a DNI list that is almost a year old. The only public way to view updated parts of the blocklists is to read their news blogs about them. And on that note, they've recently put boymoder.biz on the DNI list and removed cum.salon from it.
@nyanide@fiore@r The hack isn't really an issue. The issue is that they are completely incompetent and the management portal is a buggy mess that barely works. For example logging out only works from the "default" page and if you went anywhere else, you need to reload the page. Otherwise it will error out, redirect you to their home page and you will still be logged in.