Re: Re: Mastodon - wich server to
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Adovka on Thu Jan 15 2026 08:15 am

of people's posts?

I want a social network that shows a chronological list of posts
from people I choose to follow. Is that so hard?

people don't find that fun and they dont get to see new things.
people dont want what you want.
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I have thought about running a Mastodon server myself, but it seems the
system you need to run one of those things needs to be more than I'd
like to pay for.
Also everything I've seen filtering happens server side as to what posts
to show / communicate with.


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Re: Re: Mastodon - wich server to
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Arelor on Sat Jan 24 2026 09:59 am

How does the software root uncensored servers out, exactly?

I'm not a professional developer or anything, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say:

if (defined_server == "server.i.dont.like") then {
defined_server = "";
}

Or something like that :)

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Re: Re: Mastodon - wich server to
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Arelor on Sat Jan 24 2026 09:59 am

I've *never* seen a Mastodon client that had a hardcoded list. I'bve
played with several under Android, and there's a field to specify the
user name with server name in there, not a pull-down or otherwise
limited list.

There was certainly a lot of drama with the F-Droid team because they were debating wether clients with hardcoded blacklists were acceptable, and it was triggered by the submission of a particular client.

That is how the software can censor instances. The clients ship with a list of domains that are not allowed so when you try to join any server on the list you get a warning or you are prevented from joining through that client.


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