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@realcaseyrollins @masterofthetiger yeah, that's the other use of whitelist mode, not what I'm talking about

I totally get and support whitelisting for a friends+family instance, or for a school instance, or a work instance, etc.

I don't support whitelisting for a public instance, that federates with non-whitelist instances.

@masterofthetiger@theres.life Yeah and maybe disabling the public timeline too

@masterofthetiger@theres.life Yo I wonder if it'll let you whitelist a user on an unwhitelisted instance...

@mewmew @masterofthetiger@theres.life oof that's a feature i'd use on a personal instance for people i know irl

@masterofthetiger@theres.life I like this because it give people more options. The more power in the hands of the admins the better, IMHO

@masterofthetiger@theres.life @mewmew It can also keep out spam too

@realcaseyrollins Depends what server software you use. In theory there is nothing in the ActivityPub spec that would prevent this.

Certain servers/versions have this usecase in mind.

@masterofthetiger @realcaseyrollins I get the benefit of whitelist mode but I wouldn't consider a whitelisted instance "part of the Fediverse" because it isn't.

@masterofthetiger@theres.life I'm considering making a pretty private instance for my siblings and I only would want to federate certain instances

i guess this meme is vaguely relevant to what i just said. hopefully it brightens someone's day

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