Christ almighty is there a ton of porn and lunacy on this instance's federated timeline. This may have been a mistake.
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@evaristus Federated timelines are usually improved by you muting the whole instance. There are only a gew instances that show porn so its easy to block it all in one go.
But generally we dont silence instances at the server level unless they engage in harassment.
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@freemo @evaristus Well this is interesting. I thought admins usually block instances that break their rules...and IIRC porn isn't welcome here...
Sort of. Most instances will have different rules for what they allow federation with vs what they allow locally.
We do not have a no-nudity rule, strictly speaking, but we do require it to be CW'ed
Our rules are elaborated on in our about page. But we federate with every instance that protects a users right to disengage (a rather strict definition of harassment). Locally we are more strict though.
I see no reason we should be dictating who our users want to follow or interact with though from other servers.
@freemo @realcaseyrollins On Dec 8, you wrote sentences I don't understand: "But we federate with every instance that protects a users right to disengage (a rather strict definition of harassment). Locally we are more strict though."
Please explain again using different words.
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It means if someone from another instance is tagging you repeatidly and you ask them to leave you alone, and they dont, then the moderators at the instance will be asked to intervene, If they do not do so then the instance will be silenced.
When an instance is silenced you can only see a message from one of its users if you follow that user first.
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