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

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)

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