@damon @jdp23 @anubis2814 Central control is something specific. That would be like. I don't know Facebook. For instance. It's not distributed. It's all controlled. Which Mastodon is not? It is very much not. That's kind of the whole purpose of it
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@anubis2814 @[email protected] @jdp23 @damon that works sorta. -
@anubis2814 @[email protected] @jdp23 @damon that works sorta.@anubis2814 @[email protected] @jdp23 @damon that works sorta. The designers of activity pub are very picky about no central control. Which is a good thing. But then you get into what introducer do you trust to introduce you for instance
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@anubis2814 @damon I get the impression that you're technical.@jdp23 @anubis2814 @damon now that gave me a thought, you could moderate hashtags, the only thing you'd need to change was giving admin on certain hashtags in mastodon.
Would that work #activitypub folks?
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@anubis2814 @damon I get the impression that you're technical.@jdp23 @anubis2814 @damon well deepthot is down so I haven't played with the admin side in awhile, and can't speak to it.
Fwiw I wrote what some thought was the best moderation system on Usenet back in the day.
I can't imagine moderating a feed on Mastodon, it's too big. On Usenet moderation was per topic, so was manageable.
That's why I keep harping on running small servers with people with common interests.
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@anubis2814 @damon I get the impression that you're technical.@damon @anubis2814 well no it doesn't. There's nothing you can do with in software automatically. Somebody's going to have to do the manual work. The best we can do is to provide tools to make that manual work easier for people.
If you're from Usenet think about the alt groups. Those were a lot like Mastodon in that anybody could hook a server up and post into the alt groups. There was no control. There was no voting or anything.
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@anubis2814 @damon I get the impression that you're technical.@anubis2814 @damon I get the impression that you're technical. You know how it's not really possible to stop an activity pub node for being on the net. Every site is responsible for what messages they let in.
I believe you can set up white lists, if not it should be easy enough to do. That's the only other model that I can think of given that these are just servers on the internet.
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Hey y'all, just yet another person doing the same thing again. Next time someone tells you this place is safe for queer or trans folks just know it fucking isn't@thibaultmol @tillshadeisgone when I first put up my server it was only a few minutes before my partner got racist bs posted at her. Blocking 4 servers worked for us, but I'm not sure how much reach the server had