Stefano Marinelli
BSD.cafe “Barista”, Founder and System Administrator, Unix enthusiast ( #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD, #NetBSD, #DragonflyBSD, and #Linux ), with a keen eye for everything happening in this world and the fascinating beings that populate it. I enjoy #music, #photography, and, of course, #technology.
I’ll be sharing posts about my interests. I’ll also boost the posts from @announcements.
Boosts are not endorsements.
“I Solve Problems” - https://it-notes.dragas.net/2024/10/03/i-solve-problems-euro
@zirias@snac.bsd.cafe @modev@snac.bsd.cafe Entire instances can be blocked using the command line, but they’re using many (abandoned? loosely moderated?) instances.
We can also set the “drop posts from accounts created less than X seconds ago”. We could set a 86400 seconds - but we could lose new users, posting their introductions.
For now, I’ve blocked those instances you pointed out
@EnigmaRotor@bsd.cafe Quoted boosts are coming on Mastodon, too: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/10/trunk-tidbits-september-2024/
Still, I don’t know how they’ll be considered by many as many Twitter users did a lot of mess with them, using them to harass people.
I totally agree with your point of view: I don’t want to judge people by a post/boost. Still, I understand why people are so “on guard” as the Fediverse is full of bad people/trolls, too.
Luckily, the world is full of good people. But, sometimes, it’s quite difficult to find them as they’re much, much more silent than the bad ones.
@kasperd Quote posts are coming to Mastodon (https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/10/trunk-tidbits-september-2024/). Let’s see if people will accept it. For now, many are against them as on Twitter they’ve (also) been used in a very bad way.
