❕ Hey, new folks, noiob here, I am (currently the only) mod here on awoo (we're pretty smol). There's been concern about influx due to the #mastodown stuff. I'd like to remind you that we are not "yet another instance" but an experiment to provide a safer space than the mastoverse currently is.
That includes us having a stricter federation policy: You will only see posts from whitelisted instances here (currently only mastodon.social iirc).
@noiob so, to be clear: I can't even follow (and get posts on my home timeline from) users on non-whitelisted instances, right? not complaining if that's the case, I'm just trying to figure out how precisely this all works
@typhlosion yes, we have a whitelist for foreign instances, as opposed to a blacklist like vanilla masto has
federation discourse, awoo tech
@typhlosion I think that's a problem with the system, because any posts you get on your home timeline will show up on the federated timeline
@typhlosion @noiob blehhh. :( i'm having the strong "i would have done it differently" vibes right now. maybe i'll take a look at the mastodon codebase sometime.
@typhlosion I can relate. Still, our start page is our storefront / entrance area where we should clear up the confusion
@noiob yeah. as I've said elsewhere, I think a lot of the rough edges people are complaining about right now will get smoothed out as the tech and the infrastructure improve. there's something to this whole decentralization thing, I feel it in my bones, and if masto isn't the endpoint it's gotta at least be a step in the right direction
@noiob ah, alright. thanks for clearing that up
it would be cool to be able to remote-follow anyone, if only to be able to see their posts on home timeline and not boost them or otherwise interact with them, but i guess that tech is far off yet