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Generally lemmy docs not being a convoluted mess would have probably helped a lot.

~~OH yeah, doing that would require setting an entirely different gotosocial instance which i dont find really worth it. I already run my own, and since the account is just for the purposes of fall back communications it seems ok to have that there~~ Edit: I'm silly, yeah I fixed it! Good catch

Yeah, sleepy.ink's main domain should default to my gabe account, you just have to use @status@sleepy.ink on other platforms for it or https://sleepy.ink/@status. It's intentional since I don't plan on using the status page a whole lot (hopefully) but rather as a backup and that instance is gonna remain a single user instance of mine. I'll put a link in my bio for @gabe to the status account though in case the forwarding messes up for someone

Oh g-d, I don't even wanna include ebooks. I have at least 1000 ebooks, and about 100 or so audiobooks.

There's a lot of misinfo regarding the bad place, it's more so presently meant to be a repository of information rather than an automated system. Long term as it improves there seems to be desire for automation, but no one really uses it in the fediverse for that and likely won't for a long time as the site needs lots of work (as pointed out by the site creator himself)

Not presently. There needs to be better integration of inter-federated content management within lemmy. It is likely on the roadmap long term, but not for some time.

For context: this is the full release of the addon for wordpress enabling activitypub. It was previously in beta, but it has reached 1.0.

As I said above, it's unlikely many instances will fully automate those who don't use it out. I make sure people are mindful of the way tools affect smaller or single user instances as well when development occurs. The goal of the tool overall is to do something that isnt a whitelist so we don't single out small instances but rather a crowdsourced tool providing info on stuff that we want.

I fully understand your anxiety on the matter, and this is a critique I have actually had directly with the software. I did get into it a bit with db0 (sorry man!) over it, and thankfully my critiques were listened to and the reasoning behind the software itselfs overall use was clarified.

The goal isn't a glorified whitelist, but rather a crowdsourced tool that people can use what they want with it. You can automate the blocks if you want, you can make it so that there's warnings when blocks are made, you can impliment a whitelist if you want, it's really on people who use it. The only somewhat automated aspect of it that's by default is the identification of instances with spam like behavior, and there is steps to rectify that if they are identified as such so it's not like a permanent mark of shame.

I participate in these conversations of fediseers tooling and development with single user/small instances in mind, so know that as tools are being made I am making sure others are mindful of how it may affect small single user instances/new niche communities. I will continue entering those conversations with those communities in mind as well. I gotchu.

The goal isn't to make things a fully automated whitelist, it's more so a list of instances that cause issues or are suspected as spam that would be blocked. Even then, instances see the info and are given the opportunity to do what they want with the info as they see fit.

It really takes a lot to get fediblocked as a small user instance.

I just hope AI doesn't replace narrators :(

You'd be surprised, EU fines and consequences to shitty anti-consumer actions like this are built to hurt. There's a reason why the new iPhone has USB-C, and it's not out of the kindness of their heart.