@noiob But... what is that useful for, exactly? Users decide what they want to see by themselves. Where is downside of federating with places you *don't* trust? Is it about the federated timeline, or something else too?
@natanji @noiob if only it were as simple as just implementing something! You have to consider all the implications of communicating with other instances, so you can't just make changes to things without potentially causing greater issues among the federated community. We still want a space at the table!
@vahnj @noiob Sure. I believe it would be a really important feature for other things, though. For instance, I might trust this server for my direct messages and private posts, but want to make sure they never leave this instance (or a specific network of trusted instances).
I suppose this should be something I bring up on the Mastodon Github though, eh?
@natanji No, it's a whitelist, witches.town was just added to it, there will probably be more in the future but only ones we really trust.
We are doing that to keep our community safe, as awoo.space was created for people who found mastodon.social too unsafe/public/idk I'm bad at explaining