All true, and making this a feature would simply be implementing the inverse of the new capability… overriding an instance level block instead of imposing one not already at the server level.
mateomaui
joined 1 year ago
FOSS ingenuity at work. All it needs is adaptation and adoption.
The most reasonable solution I’ve seen so far, from the pixelfed and pixelfed.social creator
fair enough.
Try using actual sentences to express yourself, it’s more effective.
Except I have no idea WTF that reply means so good luck getting threads users to understand it.
Most people on Threads aren’t pro-corporate, they don’t actually give a shit about that. They’re just too confused by the decentralized model to be on Mastodon, couldn’t get an invite to Bluesky, and wanted somewhere to be other than Twitter.
Being connected to it all via Threads could eventually help them get enough understanding to migrate to a different instance.
Yeah, he had to know. Nice that he provided a short term full package release.
Actually check nanoUFO’s reply to me, someone forked it so the source is available and can be compiled.
Cool! I don’t think that was on the itch page. Good to know maybe we’ll get updates.
edit: nice, we can compile ourselves if they update it
It was a free download.
Yes, it contained original assets. No extract and mod.
~~No open source that I know of, but maybe I missed it.~~ Apparently I missed it!
I think you only made a case for having two or more levels of instance block, that already exist. One due to objectionable/illegal material that cannot be overridden, and another for something like threads where a significant number of users may not want to be opted in automatically, or want to block it due to purely ideological, non-illegal reasons, which would effectively be put in place by automatically adding the instance block to user accounts that can be removed at any time, which arguably can already be done with minor changes. That’s essentially what dansup is doing, complete with including a command for Pixelfed instance admins to apply the optional block to all user accounts.