@vahnj Why are instances you federate with required to NOT federate with some other instances? If (boosted) toots from instances you don't federate with were invilible to you, and (boosted) toots from awoo were invisible to instances you don't federate with, would you still require instances you federate with, to not federate with particular bad instances? If so, why?
I'd like to be able to follow users who interact (but don't necessarily agree) with people I don't want to ever see.
@fallerOfFalls asking folks not to associate with serial abusers helps keeps visibility to our users lower
@vahnj I'm not sure I understand (and I would like to!). How would content from serial abusers (who you obviously don't federate with) be *at all* visible to your users?
@fallerOfFalls it isn't about their content, it's about folks interacting with folks on abusive instances & boosts being visible to them
boosts are copies of post with no domain blocking information- having established links available with abusive instances opens up visibility problems with public posts
there are plenty of instances that do speak with those hosts and we have nothing against folks who want to speak with them. we just want to limit exposure to limit abuse
@fallerOfFalls in the context of the first paragraph- i meant "our boosts"
@vahnj aah yes. Makes sense. Thank you for explaining!
I'm wondering if mastodon could be made to support domain blocked (but still technically public) boosts.
I've made an issue for this. https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/2764