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#Blocks & #Mutes are not always endorsements I just find them funny :D #Rofl xD hahahha

Boosting everybody's introduction post is an excellent way to get your own boosts muted.

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#boosts #mutes

Sometimes people I'm following hold such stinking opinions that I end up muting them.

Funny thing... once muted, we no longer have any interaction. I would boost their posts and like them sometimes prior to the mute, but after the mute... I don't get boosts from them or likes.

:catthinking:

So... I have to conclude that our relationship was one-sided.

:holdthepain:

#OneSidedRelationships #mutes

And there it is. I probably spent more time figuring out how the jack nuts and LEDs go in, than actually soldering parts. Seems someone forgot to update their build documentation for this specific model.. Breeze to build anyway 🥰

Best bits in the kit - that tool for the jack nuts and the pcb snap-off bits. Latter are great for many #Diy builds, really any use wherever you need both reasonably thin and rigid base material.

#Befaco #Divkid #Mutes #SynthDiy #Eurorack #EurorackModule

#mutes 🍞
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Had no idea that this toaster thing was such a h🔥t topic like heyZeus🤝🔱🤝🧜‍♂️

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I decided today was #UnmuteMonday. So I've removed all my #mutes and #blocks.
There were a lot, but most were for accounts that haven't said anything for months (and possibly just caught me in a grumpy mood when they did). No doubt I have upset people and been muted or blocked (and ironically they will never know of this toot...)
I will build those lists back up again when people upset me.
I recognise that I am less vulnerable than many here.

@atomicpoet @maxleibman @JustinDerrick

Chris, I disagree with your characterization, and although it is common to portray defederation as such, it is functionally, not just inaccurate, but completely opposite of what is actually occuring. I'll elaborate on each scenario separately :)

- Scenario #1

> Sometimes servers get defederated because they host terrible people doing terrible things.

- Scenario #2

> But also, sometimes servers get defederated because two admins have a personal, ...

To convey defederation correctly in those two scenarios above where I quote you, the sentences would prolly read as follows:

Sometimes servers defederate themselves from other servers because those other servers host terrible people doing terrible things.

And similarly:

But also, sometimes servers defederate from another server because two admins have a personal, ...

- Scenario #1:

It's not a matter, or function of, doing something punitive to someone else. Defederation is actually removing oneself from the conversation, making their own world smaller, and painting themself into a proverbial corner of self-imposed isolation.

Defederation means that YOU, the admin taking action, are REMOVING YOUR instance from a small part of the Fediverse.

The world of the person's machine that you defedrate from doesn't really experience anything at all, and quite probably doesn't even miss your machine appearing on the ActivityPub network. Aside from your particular instance, the Fediverse still looks pretty much identical to them.

It is probably far more effective to simply inform the user base to mute or block personalities they find distasteful or offensive - poof! Bad person is gone from their streams forever. On most Fediverse platforms, people can affect user level banning of instances by hostname as well. This is usually good because it doesn't affect other users on that instance who don't see the sky as the same color as the offended person.

Alternatively, if there are multiple complaints from your user base, then user level blocking by the server level by the admin might be appropriate. And of course, the most comprehensive measures are also available, and will not put undue pressure upon other user accounts to migrate away to another instance if they feel untowardly inconvenienced by such sweeping measures - and that's been happening more and more now that most platforms support migration ingress ;)

Pleroma's MRF system was fantastic for this, filtering profile pics and/or images from particular servers while still permitting their own users to engage with people from other machines where content might be disagreeable to some, or most, of the local users. Granularity is key where capable admins are concerned.

- Scenario #2:

This situation is another beast entirely, and causes harm to the entire user base of the instance defederating itself from the other. I stopped hosting minecraft servers back in the days when OpenVZ was popular because I got tired of putting out fires resulting from DDoS attacks between, the only way I can describe it would be, warring factions of gamers between minecraft server gaming clicks. It's juvenile, and a very damaging (and very real) aspect of social networking in the Fediverse today.

Furthermore, it's a classic case speaking to the advocacy for smolweb, and single user instances and platforms, which are on the rise. The following are are great examples of well maintained, mature, single-user smolweb Fediverse platforms that are gaining market share, due in part to this unfortunate phenomenon.

- Snac2
- Bovine
- {MicroBlog.Pub](https://microblog.pub/)

Lately, I've been noticing a lot of IT professionals, former masto admins, and other otherwise capable or just determined, everyday folks launching their own (often home based rPi installations) instances with the peformant, and reportedly stable:

- GoToSocial

But whereas the newcomer crowd are being increasingly subjugated by the predatory marketing tactics with respect to some fable of community by the allure of mastopub's ever encroaching positioning as yet another deprecated, monolithic silo model that is subject to the whims of veritable children as admins, and other immature admins that have no business being entrusted with the best interests of their respective user bases; it's simply a fact of life in the Fediverse that these types of actors are going to lure people to create accounts on their instances and then... poof! Here today gone tomorrow - You and I both have first hand experience with that sort of rugpulling ;) No offense to the dedicated dev who just either burned out or actually was fearful of dangerous stalking events.

For me, it was a research platform I really enjoyed and held high hopes for, yet I gather that you put some real effort into homing yourself there, and I therefore congratulate you on your new recent re-homing on your own smolweb instance :)

Anyway, I'll close now, having clarified the distinction between punishing someone else by thinking they've been defederated, and punishing oneself by defederating one's own instance from another. It's certainly a valid tool in tending to the day to day operations of a social networking platform, yet it is not a hammer to be wielded without due consideration for the people it harms most.

#tallship #FOSS #Fediverse #deferation #mutes #blocks #privacy #harm #silos

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@janettespeyer

"I feel that there will be a new wave of #marketing and #advertising. Each brand would have a server of their own."

Wow

Thinking you @Flipboard people *really* need to start to read the room, and stop listening only to yourselves

We are not here in the #Fediverse for your "new wave of marketing and advertising"

In fact, exactly the opposite

Just created a new word filter "flipboard"

Individual user and Instance #Mutes and #Blocks are next

Wow...

Interesting Saturday morning project:

Export #Mastodon #Mutes to *.CSV

Export Mastodon #Blocks to *.CSV

Import mutes.csv into LibreOffice Calc

Import blocks.csv into LibreOffice Calc

Select all blocks.csv; Align Right; copy all into mutes.csv

Select all; Sort Ascending

Save as mutes_blocks.ods

Now I have all my Mutes and all my Blocks in one spreadsheet

Interesting how many profiles I've both Muted and Blocked, and interesting how many of *them* have multiple profiles/accounts across multiple instances

#Bluesky has #mutelists and I'm surprised #mastodon hasn't cribbed it. The drama they cause is really right up the #fediverse alley. There's a site that aggregates #lists and shows you which ones you're on so you can get butthurt about it! https://twexit.nl

#twexit #mute #mutelist #mutes #moderation

I don't care enough to go to #Twitter to find out, but is #ElonMusk getting rid of #mutes too, or just #blocks?

He's right in some ways; #block doesn't make sense when the blockee can just log out and see your content anyway.

As long as they keep #muting I don't think #blocking actually matters.

#X

I want a #Mastodon client that #mutes EVERYTHING by default.

Instead of filtering *out* posts that contain key words, you filter *in* only posts that contain key words.

Everyone is #muted until they say something that you are explicitly interested in hearing, and even then only for a short time.

It'd be okay if this was just how the #federated TL worked. #Fediverse #moderation

If you want to manage your block list and mute list on Mastodon, log in through the website and then press the little V shaped button just above the box where you write toots (see the attached image).

This will cause a menu to appear, which includes managing blocks and mutes.

#MastoTips #Mastodon #FediTips #Mutes #Blocks