I respect that #Fosstodon is sending out a notice to its users about the tough decision they had to make about whether or not to de-federate with #Threads. They offered a quick how-to for folks who have never personally blocked a whole instance before, which I'm choosing to go ahead with myself.
The big instance owners really have a tough job. They have a big responsibility to keep a safe environment for their users. But they also risk being over-protective of many. Respect.
Well said and agreed; it's great to see the transparency while actively helping to retain user freedom
@magnus919@fosstodon.org Continuing from my personal instance account, which almost no one is likely to see.
I think this also underscores how important it is to make it easier for individuals and small friend groups to run their own instances without having to cosplay as systems engineers.
Mastodon itself is probably too far gone down the geek hole for that to ever happen.
But #ActivityPub is an open protocol. Hopefully someone (more qualified than me) tilts at this windmill.
@magnus919@toot.brandyapple.com @magnus919@fosstodon.org there are some #activitypub design for small scale deployments such as gotosocial https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial#oidc-integration or honk https://humungus.tedunangst.com/r/honk
@PuercoPop thanks. This rabbit hole also helped me to find @akkoma