@thisismissem Hi! New Mastodon administrator here....

@thisismissem Hi! New Mastodon administrator here.

I'm not sure you're looking for my feedback but yes, I do want to limit my interaction with toots while seeing a wider variety of toots. I eventually found a relay to subscribe to specific tags for local and country-level politics.

Since then I've set up filters and have started to curate a followers list from that.

The single, small and community instances are valid. Consent in communication is important to me while surveying public toots.

Like 29 April at 13:33 | Wall-to-wall | Open on social.bear.garden

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Emelia 👸🏻

@bear and what if those people don't consent to you seeing their posts? Many relays lack consent, some even break the safety model by including the entire post in the Announce activity.

So when your posts go through a relay to who knows who, is that in line with the consent model that's touted around the fediverse?

That's the problem: you can't get all the content without bypassing someone's consent unless you follow them.

29 April at 13:42 | Open on hachyderm.io

Bear

@thisismissem I wonder about this. Relays are hard for me to understand in the concept of ActivityPub. I still have basic questions about them, like, if I subscribe to a relay am I sending them all of my public toots? Am I just receiving?

Without thinking about relays, I expect public toots to be discoverable.

The only consent I can control are toots coming from my instance. Which is why I'm not allowing other users without first having some kind of service agreement in place.

29 April at 14:48 | Open on social.bear.garden

Bear

@thisismissem Also, thank you for taking the time and energy to reply. I know that you said earlier that you are tired of these conversations, and I hope I'm providing some value in return.

29 April at 14:49 | Open on social.bear.garden

Emelia 👸🏻

@bear yes, interacting with a relay is bidirectional. When you add a relay, your instance does a follow, the relay then accepts that follow and follow's your instance back, and that starts all public activity going to the relay.

That is, you're consenting to receiving amplified content, and to being amplified to others.

29 April at 14:53 | Open on hachyderm.io

Bear

@thisismissem Thank you!

I may turn those relays off when I find the accounts I want to follow.

Really enjoying ActivityPub and what it enables, so far.

29 April at 14:55 | Open on social.bear.garden