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@sun I got an undergrad CS degree 🤢 and my 2 semester mandatory software engineering professor and my junior year writing for CS dorks professor were both ranting eloquently about this 20 years ago

never came up with any of the rest of the faculty

does anybody know if there are other ActivityPub platform softwares with post filtering/transmogrifying facilities as capable as, or more capable than, Pleroma/Akkoma's MRF?

it counts whether it works at the instance or user level.

boosts appreciated so's I hopefully end up hearing about even obscure ones.

@zoy @csepp @joepie91 yeah, my solution for the last ~8 yrs has been to make a list of candidate devices by hardware spec, cross-ref with LineageOS downloads wiki, and pick the device which has the most maintainers / the biggest user following.

…which is why I have a Poco F1 built for India as an American user. it was great until US carriers shut down service on the few overlapping bands its radio talks to. last I checked, the radio firmware had never been cracked to overcome this in the USA.

@silverpill @jody_racer @mkljczk thanks, this is the second person I've heard say something like this.

I'm running a single-user Akkoma instance right now but considering whether to use it or Pleroma for a "close friends only" one. which is why I asked about Mitra moderation features like a year ago lol (I ran into many tribulations between then & now)

@phnt @rick @benpate @cjd I don't really see this ending any other way than a schism between shitlibs-with-mortgages + canceldon fedi (aka The Mastodon Network™, latin charset region) and everyone else. it may take a while but it'll happen.

and maybe that's for the best.

@phnt @silverpill @sun given that I sekritly selfhost all my shit reverse proxied from residential internet I am extremely lucky to have not dealt with too many of these problems yet, I ak way overdue to step up my filtering game at the proxy end

@hfaust @sun probably half of what Dana Carvey did

@sun I would love to hear your thoughts on the matter in great detail

@sun I presume everybody on a p2p exchange is there in part to evade taxes... volume is low enough that there haven't been any stings that I've heard of

@sun oh boy

@sun @lewdthewides man I absolutely would've done that job and not felt even a little bad about it

@sun heh. you could always patiently sell for currency on a p2p exchange

@sun cool. happy to submit bugs if I find em

@sun is there an issue tracker?

the more I see these well-scrubbed comfortable people with little to no precarity in their lives excitedly collaborating on ActivityPub development, the more I become concerned for the future of the network (and more importantly me and my friends' ability to use it in peace).

now my concern could absolutely be unfounded, and I hope to be pleasantly surprised, but I'll just again point out that the supposed founder of IFTAS is somebody whose bio link on that site points to LinkedIn instead of anywhere running ActivityPub, and that people broadly similar to him are increasingly taking it upon themselves to define how this place operates.

in short, I have an uncomfortable feeling that some of this work, if implemented, is going to have a rather unsurprising emergent property of reinforcing in-groups composed of people very much like themselves.

Gitlab is rough, man. no, I didn't fucking ask you to stem my search terms, knock it off before I throttle everyone who made that decision one by one.

the size of my politics filter set has surpassed 500 terms