Current #Tapir feature in progress: fine-grained blocking, media blocking, and reply control. You'll be able to set allow-by-default or block-by-default for federation, DMs, showing media, and showing replies, and you'll be able to override trust levels per domain, user, or individual post.
Domain blocks also apply to hotlinked inline media, so, for example, you can set block-by-default for images in #Nostr posts unless they're from one of a few trusted domains.
Sometimes criminals close the door when plotting crimes.
“We should ban doors!” 🚫🚪
Sometimes criminals hide weapons under their clothes.
“We should ban clothes!” 🚫👖
🙃
Do not fall for these misguided arguments.
Most of the time people use end-to-end encrypted apps to talk about the most mundane things.
Sometimes vulnerable people use end-to-end encryption to protect themselves and stay safe.
We should keep and cherish encryption.
We should demand it everywhere.
End-to-end encryption protects our human right to privacy and safety.
We must fight for it! ✊🔒
@lambda @obsidianical X.O Org
I'd like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Mastodon, is in fact the federated universe or as I've recently taken to calling it, the Fediverse. Mastodon is not a social network unto itself, but rather another component of a fully functional federated network made useful many other instances, such as Misskey, Pleroma, Akkoma and Peertube compromising a full federated social network as defined by the ActivityPub protocol.
Many computer users run a modified version of a Fediverse instance every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the type of Fediverse instance which is widely used today is often called "Mastodon", and many its users are not aware that it is basically part the Fediverse, developed by many other projects.
There really is a Mastodon, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Mastodon is only a single type of Fediverse instance: a program in the network that operates as a single node that interoperates with all the other types of nodes that you interact with. Mastodon is an essential part of the Fediverse, but useless by itself; it can only be functional in the context of a fully federated universe. Mastodon is normally used in combination with many other instances: the whole system is basically the federated universe with Mastodon added, or the Fediverse. All the so-called "Mastodon" distributions are really distributions of platforms that interoperate with the ActivityPub protocol.
I might've already posted about this, but someone just reminded me of my achieving Linux enlightenment moment. Many years ago I was fascinated with more and more "advanced" distros and as one does at some point installed Arch Linux and I was talking to my father (IT-saur) about how it doesn't do anything by default unless you tell it to and it's so cool to set up my system exactly how I want relatively from scratch even if it sometimes takes some time and effort.
He responded that it seems kinda backwards, and that he remembers when some version of bash installer came out and if ran normally it would automatically detect everything and set up with sane defaults without any need for further tinkering. You run the installer, you get functional bash. And I suddenly realised he's right; that was the future and I believe it's still the way now, I'm all for customising my system as much as I want, but I'd like my software to install with sane defaults and presumptions and not require me to understand its inner workings and connections to other parts of the system just to be able to use it. Software should work for me and save me time and effort if I so desire.
This is something that Gentoo, Exherbo and especially NixOS do much better.
after ten years, John Deere FINALLY lost
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