things i would like to see in mastodon that pleroma has been able to do for years:

Ariadne Conill 🐰:therian:

- the ability to defederate an instance except for *explicitly approved* accounts (pleroma has supported this since the beginning of MRF in 2018)

- the ability to defederate a hashtag (pleroma has supported this since 2019)

- the ability to quarantine unknown instances until they are approved by the admin (pleroma has supported this through a combination of multiple features since 2019)

Andrew Dunham

@ariadne A hearty "yes please" +1 to all of these; as an instance admin, I would use all of them

Ariadne Conill 🐰:therian:

- the ability to forcibly mark posts with content warnings based on keywords in their content (2018)

- the ability to forcibly mark media as sensitive based on keywords in the post's content (2018)

- the ability to reject media selectively based on various admin-configured signals (2018)

Ariadne Conill 🐰:therian:

- the ability to derank remote posts based on their sentiment (not in pleroma mainline, but has been an active area of research in the MRF subsystem community since 2018)

Ariadne Conill 🐰:therian:

- the ability to remove content warnings that are useless, e.g. from actors which constantly shitpost using content warnings (2018)

- the ability to require signups to complete a CAPTCHA to reduce instance abuse (2019) (edit: finally implemented in mastodon in 2023 and only because it became a problem on mastodon.social, which people started defederating)

- the ability to limit what instances get sent posts from a local actor (for example: to limit the possible damage caused by spicy posts) (2019)

Ariadne Conill 🐰:therian:

- the ability to personalize representations of local posts when pushed or fetched by remote servers, e.g. to mold them into being consistent with that remote server's policy (2020)

Ariadne Conill 🐰:therian:

look i'm just saying that the fediverse would be a better place if we had admin tools that were good

Space Hobo

@andrew @ariadne It's kind of shocking that pleroma comes with a Freeze Peach smell, if it has moderation features this powerful!

Ariadne Conill 🐰:therian:

@spacehobo @andrew

the pleroma developers believe strongly in moderation tools. the reason it has that smell is for two reasons:

1. some mastodon fans basically lie about pleroma all the time, and their lies have strong sticking power.

2. you can set up pleroma in literally 5 minutes max. so a lot of trolls use pleroma for throwaway instances.

Ariadne Conill 🐰:therian:

- moderation tools that are designed to be composed (e.g. used in concert with other moderation tools as part of a larger solution) (2018)

Chad :mstdn:

@ariadne CAPTCHA is already a thing. Just needs to be enabled.

Captcha - Mastodon documentation

Mitigating automated signup bots

(docs.joinmastodon.org)

Ariadne Conill 🐰:therian:

@chad wow glad to see they finally caught up with pleroma in 2019 in this ONE area.

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@ariadne

Are all these supported in akkoma as well?

Ariadne Conill 🐰:therian:

@raf yes

[email protected]

@ariadne
>- the ability to quarantine unknown instances until they are approved by the admin (pleroma has supported this through a combination of multiple features since 2019)

Wait, what are these features? Being able to check what's trying to federate would be a godsend for me as an admin, but the best I've figured out was running an allowlist instance and manually adding things whenever I see a broken thread, and that gets old fast.

Ariadne Conill 🐰:therian:

@affine you can automate the allowlisting based on searching the object database for missing references

https://bsky.halvasweb.space

@ariadne honestly id move to *oma but like

there's literally like one somewhat good looking client for it, and it's soapbox

Ariadne Conill 🐰:therian:

@halva there is a fork of soapbox done by some of the pleroma devs called mangane

Ariadne Conill 🐰:therian:

- automatically detect and mark explicit content as sensitive using perceptual hashing (2021)

- automatically reject illegal content using perceptual hashing (2021)

- block content using DNSBLs (2021)

- block incoming messages with excessive links (2019)

- block incoming messages with excessive mentions (2019)

- force bot traffic to post unlisted (2020)

Ariadne Conill 🐰:therian:

- automatic mitigation of server-DoSing hellthreads (2018)

- automatic rejection of messages which reference unwanted remote emojis (2023)

- automatic follow spam blocking (2019)