is there anything, spec/protocol wise, preventing fediverse software from only returning representations of objects (posts, etc) to requests from known instances that the local server has not blocked?
convince me there's a hard requirement for Mastodon et al to generate a publicly accessible representation of "public" posts.
I remember showing up over here by following the jetsam [1] of the first infosec migration across the tumultuous seas of microblogging, slightly disoriented but little worse for wear.
There was a lot of space back then. You could swing a raccoon in a circle around your head [2] without having to worry about giving someone a faceful of frenetic fur. [3] Fewer than twenty-five thousand souls inhabited this archipelago [4] at that point, gathering on a handful of islands.
I was pretty sure I was destined to be consumed [5] by those who had arrived before my cohort.
In a way, I was. I am no longer the person I was when I arrived here. I have been changed by this place. I have been changed by this ever-changing group of groups of people. I have been changed by you. [6]
Fierce storms will batter these little islands. Battles will arise. Pain and grief are by-products of interaction.
But so are laughter and cheer and warmth and contentedness.
And love.
My neighbors, the very least that I wish for each and every one of you is to find days so filled with love that there's no time for hate and nights so restful that you rise burning with the force of the sun within you.
Mend what is broken. Build shelters you need. Make mistakes and make them count. This is your world and mine and it will be exactly what we make it, but the sky is the limit if we keep looking up instead of bringing ourselves down.
Thanks for being here, thanks for being you, and thanks for listening to the rambling of a silly old dog.
I remember showing up over here by following the jetsam [1] of the first infosec migration across the tumultuous seas of microblogging, slightly disoriented but little worse for wear.
There was a lot of space back then. You could swing a raccoon in a circle around your head [2] without having to worry about giving someone a faceful of frenetic fur. [3] Fewer than twenty-five thousand souls inhabited this archipelago [4] at that point, gathering on a handful of islands.
it’s been (ha!) four years and change since I posted the parent toot, which itself was a year and change on from when I ventured into the fediverse.
now I live all the way across the continent, driven to relocate by the desire to be more involved with folk I met On Here.
and I’m not the only one.
welcome to a different way of being online, new folks. it can be pretty amazing at its best. it can be horrifying at its worst. but it will be what we make of it regardless. I look forward to seeing you get to know the place.
it’s been (ha!) four years and change since I posted the parent toot, which itself was a year and change on from when I ventured into the fediverse.
now I live all the way across the continent, driven to relocate by the desire to be more involved with folk I met On Here.
and I’m not the only one.
welcome to a different way of being online, new folks. it can be pretty amazing at its best. it can be horrifying at its worst. but it will be what we make of it regardless. I look forward to seeing you...
Gregory's Server
@djsundog That's a thing, it's called secure mode.