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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Re the use of Twtxt feeds… Let’s just see how it evolves, I’m not completely sold yet, but there are numerous ways to skin a cat here and there seemed to be some appeal in using “plain text files” for issue management at least and I think merge requests could be treated in a similar way… Let’s just see… The only other way is Email but uggh

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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Re the style currently. Yes this is inherited from legit. I’m hoping someone better at CSS than me can fix this before we go too far, things are quite simple now, so if someone just goes in and modifies the style.css we should get a. much better look and feel IMO 🤞

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@marado@twtxt.net Yes, true, but what I was confused about i this article was whether or not Rochko was rejecting donations or investment offers. I mean if the former, why would you? 🤔 I feel like this is just yet another crappy “click-bait” /. article 🤦‍♂️ – I mean since when is Mastodon a Twitter™ rival?! 🤣

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In-reply-to » Learn to use email with git! Patch Workflows - Ry’s Git Tutorial - RyPress -- Another good blog post on working with Git patches via Email as well as applying them. -- The key point (I think) is that you need to grab the entire contents of email email in order in order to pipe the contents into git am - -- Hmmm 🤔 -- I think we can do better than this...

@justamoment@twtxt.net Cooool, so now I just gotta iterate on a few patterns and see what works best and get your opinion on it 😅

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In-reply-to » I forget who it was but someone here pushed back on me when I said there were a bunch of Nazi instances on mastodon, but it's true. They were one of the earliest adopters and they're still a big nuisance over there. If yarn ever becomes super popular watch out!

@eaplmx@twtxt.net To be honest I would prefer that we define things in terms of the problems they sought out to solve. If someone wants to throw up an issue to start the discussion, we can document this with the builtin pages of yarnd like in https://twtxt.net/help and in the up and coming docs.yarn.social. For reference yarnd has these controls that are noteworthy:

  • Ephemeral Twts and Yarns (with its cache design, posts are not displayed premaritally on your Timeline or on the Discover view or Front page)
  • Muting Feeds: You can mute feeds on a per-user basis
  • Muting Twts and Yarns: You can mute single Twts or entire Yarns (by their hash) on a per-User basic
  • And finally, full URI patterns of feeds/domains can be “shadow banned” on a Pod basis (which has the effect of filtering out Twts from those feeds/users from the Discover view / Front page, but not from users that directly follow them)

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In-reply-to » I forget who it was but someone here pushed back on me when I said there were a bunch of Nazi instances on mastodon, but it's true. They were one of the earliest adopters and they're still a big nuisance over there. If yarn ever becomes super popular watch out!

Btw… I’d like to take this opportunity to mention my strong feelings of the fact that Twts/Yarns disappear from pods (on purpose) and have what I thought were pretty sensible defaults (maybe those defaults could be collectively reevaluated?) – Looking at my own “Muted” list I note that I still have 9 muted Twts and 3 Muted feeds. I could probably cleanup the Muted Twts (as they’ve probably archived into Bolivian by now, the reason this feature is so important)

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In-reply-to » I forget who it was but someone here pushed back on me when I said there were a bunch of Nazi instances on mastodon, but it's true. They were one of the earliest adopters and they're still a big nuisance over there. If yarn ever becomes super popular watch out!

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci Yup makes sense. We had to build pod-level tools for that, which behave the same way as the per-User muting of a Twt or Feed. It was tough to build and I actually learned something new when doing so with the community’s help 😅 (although I don’t like to advertise the feature capability, look at Settings -> Poderator Settings yourself)

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In-reply-to » I forget who it was but someone here pushed back on me when I said there were a bunch of Nazi instances on mastodon, but it's true. They were one of the earliest adopters and they're still a big nuisance over there. If yarn ever becomes super popular watch out!

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci “active moderators” and “invested in maintaining the community” and “good tools” – not to be confused with “censorship” right? 🤔

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In-reply-to » @prologic I think this is the sort of thing that should probably be discussed elsewhere, so as not to leave a convenient roadmap for how to abuse it published right on-site. It should almost certainly involve as many voices as possible, too. I have strong opinions and a particular bias but it's a big, diverse topic.

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci We can rise an issue then 👌

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In-reply-to » I forget who it was but someone here pushed back on me when I said there were a bunch of Nazi instances on mastodon, but it's true. They were one of the earliest adopters and they're still a big nuisance over there. If yarn ever becomes super popular watch out!

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci

We saw a glimpse of this already, with the guy who “soft doxxed” me. Imagine if 90% of yarn users were doing stuff like that all day every day. I’d certainly leave pretty quickly–I don’t have time for that, and I don’t have the free time or the inclination to try to fight it.

Yeah I remember, it was a bit of “touch and go” there for us all, but abuse is abuse and as “tetering on the edge” it might have been it was inexcusable. I do wonder though why you’d leave at all? Wouldn’t you just Unfollow problematic individuals? 🤔 You could even just blacklist the world and maybe just whitelist a few known good feeds, maybe pods even (we haven’t built this). – My point is, escaping people like this is probably hard / next to impossible, all we can do is try to help them (assuming they can be helped at all? 🤔 I’m sure some can be helped/saved 🤞), and ensure they don’t or cannot abuse the platform (or in our case, the ecosystem)…

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In-reply-to » I forget who it was but someone here pushed back on me when I said there were a bunch of Nazi instances on mastodon, but it's true. They were one of the earliest adopters and they're still a big nuisance over there. If yarn ever becomes super popular watch out!

I say this because even Gitea instances can sometimes be abused by “assholes” (it happened to mine some time ago, and I’ve had my fair share of “spam” accounts – thanks to @mckinley@twtxt.net for helping me clean these up 🙏)

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In-reply-to » I forget who it was but someone here pushed back on me when I said there were a bunch of Nazi instances on mastodon, but it's true. They were one of the earliest adopters and they're still a big nuisance over there. If yarn ever becomes super popular watch out!

Perhaps its worth for yarnd to not have “open registrations” at all 🤔

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In-reply-to » I forget who it was but someone here pushed back on me when I said there were a bunch of Nazi instances on mastodon, but it's true. They were one of the earliest adopters and they're still a big nuisance over there. If yarn ever becomes super popular watch out!

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci Hmmm 🤔

Yarn is just as vulnerable to that dynamic as any other online community

How do we ensure it is not vulnerable or to minimise the inevitable effect? 🤔

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In-reply-to » @prologic you know, it doesn't seem to be widely appreciated but the bad segments of the right wing have always been very tech savvy. They're usually one of the first big groups on the scene when new technology arises, and they're often some of the last holdouts too. Like some kind of fungus.

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci Okay good, so we’re on the same page… Now what I’ve “never” understood is the relationship between “right wing” / “authoritarian” politics and these (seemly) also “right-wing nutters” 😅

Are these sorts of people just folks that blindly love authoritarianism? 🤔

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