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I currently have #Shadowbox filtering out posts with images and videos into separate categories but I'm thinking it would be nice to further filter images based on whether they are screenshots/memes/AIslop vs original photographs but I think the Mastodon file uploading process normalizes a lot of the useful metadata that could help such classification.
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@starfire it displayed in my #Shadowbox (web on Ubuntu) but not in the Mastodon web client on Android.
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I serendipitously chose Fosstodon 5 years ago when joining the Fediverse. Lucky for me, it's still going strong, becoming one of the more lively instances while others have since shut down (victim of success); #FOSS remains one of the few active Fediverse topics.
Mastodon has an onboarding problem similar to Linux. Say "join Mastodon!" but 1st you need to find an "instance" (choose a distro). And there are many bad choices and footguns when you want to switch later to another one.
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This is how I follow* tens of thousands of accounts across 16+ foss-related Mastodon instances, downloading posts locally and filtering them like an inbox.
#Shadowbox https://github.com/tomosaigon/shadowbox
*1. Follow in the sense of subscribing to statuses
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#Fediverse needs to run on Decentralized Autonomous Servers, where code is law and users of an instance pay #microtransaction fees for account services collected to pay a monthly bounty for successful (+redundant) server hosting. Oracles verify that servers verify challenges based on hashes of content. I'm thinking multiple redundant alternative DNS names.