i think the worst thing about federation whitelisting is that, even if the more common public instances get whitelisted, people on single-user instances as a general rule will always miss out
which, AGAIN, would be fixed by allowing remote follows (without remote boosts) to bypass the whitelisting
i think the worst thing about federation whitelisting is that, even if the more common public instances get whitelisted, people on single-user instances as a general rule will always miss out
@typhlosion We should definitely fix this!
Right now what happens is someone gets suspended from our local instance entirely, similar to how blacklisting works, so we'd have to refactor that out and change at what level people get blocked.
If you want, here's the code: https://github.com/vahnj/mastodon
i think the worst thing about federation whitelisting is that, even if the more common public instances get whitelisted, people on single-user instances as a general rule will always miss out
@vahnj ooh rad, i was looking at the tootsuite fork but i'll definitely take a look here so i can peep how whitelisting works