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#seattle #StandUpForScience

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Hey, #Mastodon users and #MastoAdmin thinking about Threads!

1: Users:

A: You can limit who can send you DMs/PMs! You can also limit notifications!

B: You can also block a site entirely for yourself.

See attached pics for how.

2: Instance administrators:

If you don't want to block threads.net entirely, consider these options for your userbase's safety:

A: Between "Full federation" and "Suspend" there is LIMIT, which hides content from an instance unless a user either follows the user posting it, or searches for it.

B: There is also "Reject media," which means you never cache a remote site's attachments. This de facto makes all such content sensitive ("unavailable"), requiring an additional click to view.

#FediAdmin #Fediverse

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I was in a discussion today with @TechConnectify and @feditips about reply toxicity here, and I've tried to make all of that into a coherent post.

I want to go to #MastoDev with a version of this, but need to let it sit overnight and probably rewrite it. But I also think it's something anyone interested in non-corporate-controlled social media needs to think about, because a fair number of people go "influencers, fuck 'em" and that's... not how I think this needs to be understood. If you don't care about them, fine, but care about their followers who _will_ follow them away.

Because like it or not, if you want to go against corporate-owned social media, you need these people too.

https://solarbird.net/blog/2023/11/18/even-on-mastodon-people-are-a-problem/

#meta #mastodon

HEY LOCALS!

I'm not planning on joining the Mastodon 4.2 Beta, but I will be upgrading when it drops for reals.

Today I ran a bunch of version compatibility checks to make sure we'll be ready to go. (We are.)

V4.2 includes a lot of new features, a bit of feature removal (which I complained about but has functionally been worked around) and also adds full-text search in a better way than we've been doing it with ElastiSearch.

Whether your toots will be full-text searchable depends upon an opt-in which you'll be able to find in your Preferences. Given that the UI for this has already changed between Beta 1 and Beta 2, I guessing how it'll look in final release, but it'll be there.

There will be some downtime, but hopefully not much.