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How would you guys feel if I hosted a version of tusky that was an exact fork of tusky, follows the upstream, but eliminates all interna app blocks of instances. Would you guys support that initiative? I could even put the fork in the google play store.
@freemo Can you see which instances are blocked? And how do they do it?
@mundauf Its a recent rather large debate across the fediverse.
Tusky had never previously blocked any instances as far as I know. Gab however recently decided they were going to migrate over to mastodon (or a fork of it). the intance that is up is experimental and very few people on it. In response for the first time the Tusky dev decided to add in a hard block.
The result is the whole mastodon community seems to be debating the issue and morality of that move.
@mundauf Also blockchain isnt related to mastodon. Thats a different tech.
@freemo I meant like an actually chain of blocks. Not the blockchain technology. Sorry. English is not my native language and in german it's common to pull together words like this together. 🙂
So. As I understand it correctly, gab was not part of Mastodon until then or is the fediverse another structure inside of Mastodon? Thank you.
@mundauf Gab is still not part of the fediverse, but they will be soon (july officially).
The fediverse is a name for all the servers which use One of a set of protocols, most notably ActivityPub. This protocol let the servers talk to each other (this allows you to follow and reply to people from other servers).
Mastodon is one piee of software (the one we run here on QOTO) which implements ActivityPub.
@freemo Do you know of other apps for Mastodon which hard block instances?
@freemo Thank you. So, it's just gab then or do I miss something? I wonder if it's common with admins of instances to share other block recommendations blocking whole instances in blockchain. Is this a thing?