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

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

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@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)

And Human (it/its)

@ariadne What does the third item in this list mean in layman’s terms?

Ariadne Conill 🐰:therian:

@AndHuman if i have a local user who i know is going to piss off, say, mastodon.art, i can defederate *that user* from mastodon.art before it ever becomes a problem

Ariadne Conill 🐰:therian:

- normalization of message HTML and mention/hashtag formatting (2019)

- normalization of inline mentions and hashtag presence (2019)

- filtering of activitystreams content types (2019)

Ariadne Conill 🐰:therian:

i could keep going, but i think i've made my point

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@ariadne so we should just run pleroma?

Ariadne Conill 🐰:therian:

@ionizedgirl no. there are plenty of reasons to not run pleroma. but Mastodon could actually have moderation tools that are good if Gargron wanted to make them.

i just find it strange that the software that has good moderation tools gets tarnished as "freeze peach" when the dominant software which has *terrible* moderation tools is allowed to just keep having terrible moderation tools and polluting the fediverse with the fallout of its terrible moderation design.

oh right, because one was made by queer people and can be set up easily, and the other was made by a white guy