Gregory's Server@polotek If you're looking for a serious answer: a) because I don't control any instance nor have the skills run my own, and b) because I don't want to have to play whack-a-mole everytime some techbro wants to pipe my stuff into an advertising server. No, I CAN'T just make my instance opt out.
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 @sbszine @polotek I may have this wrong, but I think that Marco's point is that you address your instance admin and not the guy who is creating the tool. The hope being that there is some kind of democratic process at the instance level. The users of an instance creating the culture and policies of that instance, even if ultimately the admin functions as an executive, whilst the fediverse is federal so different instances doing things differently within a very lose framework.   @TomSwirly @sbszine because it is entirely possible to run your own instance. It doesn't require technical skills. masto.host will sell you one for $5/mo and take care of pretty much everything. I think it's not great that people have been left with the impression that it takes a lot of skills and work. @polotek @TomSwirly Thanks for this, both because it's a straight answer and a practical thing. Looking at the doco it doesn't seem to support wildcarding or regexp in server blocks, and it doesn't give you CLI access to slurp up live blocklists. It's close but I think it's still effectively an opt out experience where you're blocking each new bridge manually. It is totally an answer to setting up your own instance though so thanks again, good stuff.  @sbszine @polotek sbszine this looks a lot like a case of "I want all the rights but none of the responsibilities." someone holding a gun to your head making you use mastodon? or is there a chance your expectations could be adjusted to cater to accepting that tools made by other people will, and should, be made to their specification, rather than the specification of the people who are choosing to use and benefit from them for free. |
@sbszine these are all reasonable assumptions. They are false. But I understand why you think you have these limitations. That still doesn't explain why you think the right alternative is to yell at other random private citizens every time they misstep when trying to participate. That's not a world I wanna live in either. Maybe this whole fediverse thing was a mistake?