So, while this is amusing and snarky, folks should understand what mastodon is and how it works. Defederating a server because it has bad users or content is actually a key component of how Mastodon works. The network isn't completely flat. Unike Usenet, not all content is replicated across all servers (yes, I know some newsgroups can be filtered, that's not what i'm talking about). Servers / instances are identified by interest, social group, or topic. Some servers attract some really dreadful people. They are defederated / blocked. It's a very very different model. On Sat, Dec 24, 2022 at 10:07 AM Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
On 12/24/22 02:52, Ethan O'Toole via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Huh? Have you actually *used* it? It's 100% about talk, but has been abused for media.
I have helped a friend mount hundreds of 18TB HDDs in sleds for some Usenet service he does work for. It's pretty wild looking at a wall of many petabytes of LEDs flashing... thinking.... I wonder what they are reading on usenet right now.
Pics!
There is a semi-local hackerspace that launched on the Mastodon during the great evil Elon revolt, and immediately there was a user backlash because the network of servers they were on touched a server that had content the user didn't agree with. It was amusing.
ROFL
-Dave
-- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA
-- Dave Shevett shevett@pobox.com