@theorytoe @soothspider @gabriel I see. I thought by saying it was gamification of writing you meant you disliked microblogging in general
@vaartis The identity server in Bluesky is https://plc.directory/ (but you can also host your own) and I don't think Matrix has one, at least not now.
@lain Well, the standard "light fedi" way of dealing with that is defederation. And while I'm not on one of those instances, from what I can see from viewing threads where one of them gets piled on by vermin, it seems to solve the problem, albeit with some collateral damage.
More flexible moderation and self-moderation (blocking, muting) tools and more due process for admin moderation would be nice.
Have you seen any of my posts about flexible filter lists?
Instead of blocking and muting, I want to be able to write scripts consisting of a collection of "filters" which would each consist of a pattern followed by an action. The pattern would be a boolean expression that could contain variables related to the post content, media, author, instance of origin, title/cw field etc and would support regex matching. The action would be to hide all media, hide specific media (potentially based on the aforementioned variables), hide posts, with or without leaving a header that tells you that something was hidden and being able to program what that header says per-filter.
Should also be able to import filter scripts written by people you trust the judgement.
This sounds a lot like MRFs, I know, but AFAIK you can't let end users write MRFs for security reasons (?) so maybe a domain-specific language would be better? It would certainly be easier/more fun to write.
With such flexible tools for users and admins they could do things like block/ban an entire server *except* for a handful of users that are actually OK. Wanting to do that is what lead me to this idea in the first place.
More flexible moderation and self-moderation (blocking, muting) tools and more due process for admin moderation would be nice.
Have you seen any of my posts about flexible filter lists?
Instead of blocking and muting, I want to be able to write scripts consisting of a collection of "filters" which would each consist of a pattern followed by an action. The pattern would be a boolean expression that could contain variables related to the post content, media, author, instance of origin, title/cw field etc and would support regex matching. The action would be to hide all media, hide specific media (potentially based on the aforementioned variables), hide posts, with or without leaving a header that tells you that something was hidden and being able to program what that header says per-filter.
Should also be able to import filter scripts written by people you trust the judgement.
This sounds a lot like MRFs, I know, but AFAIK you can't let end users write MRFs for security reasons (?) so maybe a domain-specific language would be better? It would certainly be easier/more fun to write.
With such flexible tools for users and admins they could do things like block/ban an entire server *except* for a handful of users that are actually OK. Wanting to do that is what lead me to this idea in the first place.
@lain But there were left-wing servers here before blue sky even existed. So why wouldn't they just come here? Is it because they find it too hard to choose an instance? Is it because of fediblock? That makes sense actually.
@lain Plenty of left-wing people here to talk to. And it's more decentralised.
German Homeschooling Refugees Can Stay in U.S. for Another Year
https://reason.com/2024/10/30/german-homeschooling-refugees-can-stay-in-u-s-for-another-year/
Wow, Germany's pretty authoritarian huh
https://reason.com/2024/10/30/german-homeschooling-refugees-can-stay-in-u-s-for-another-year/
Wow, Germany's pretty authoritarian huh
I'm seriously considering making an account on Bluesky so I can ask people what the appeal of it is.