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did anyone try running gotosocial on windows? I don't think it will work but I'm morbidly curious

https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/pull/3845 draft PR for this

owo what's all this then

if you're spinning up a new GoToSocial instance for yourself, don't forget you can use the domain permission subscription thingy to subscribe your instance to blocklists of well-known arsehole instances, so you can create domain block (drafts) automatically and nip a lot of potential harassment vectors in the bud

some basic lists that are worth considering:

• seirdy's fedinuke list:
  Explanation: https://seirdy.one/posts/2023/05/02/fediverse-blocklists
  URI (text/plain): https://seirdy.one/pb/FediNuke.txt
• oliphant's unified tier 0 blocklist:
  Explanation: https://codeberg.org/oliphant/blocklists/src/branch/main/blocklists
  URI (text/csv): https://codeberg.org/oliphant/blocklists/raw/branch/main/blocklists/mastodon/_unified_tier0_blocklist.csv
• thebadspace 80% heat list:
  Explanation: https://tweaking.thebad.space/about,
  https://tweaking.thebad.space/exports
  URI (text/csv): https://tweaking.thebad.space/exports/mastodon/80

tip: rather than creating a subscription that creates blocks immediately, it's a good idea to set it to create drafts, and then manually review and approve/reject each draft, otherwise you might end up blocking folks you actually would prefer to federate with

seen quite a few people lately spinning up lil single-user instances for themselves and talking about how it feels really freeing to be in charge of their own fedi presence; that's really nice to read

wishing all

Germany

a very

denazify but actually for real this time

honestly i think it's really funny and good and joyous that the sloth being an annoying little shit actually gets stuff changed for the better

https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/issues/3504

context: GoToSocial has always returned the 418 I'm A Teapot joke HTTP code to all requests that try to connect to it without giving a User-Agent, cuz (our reasoning at the time was that) if they're being rude with us we can be a bit cheeky back to them, it's all fun + games

As a direct result of that, some Bluesky component we've never interacted with or thought about now includes a User-Agent header so you can see in your logs who's fetching your shit (and block it if you want): https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/pull/3450

Anyway if you want to block the app view user-agent it's BskyAppView according to the bsky code.

does anyone have a link to docs about how glitch-soc, *key and *oma federate emoji reacts, for future research?

don't use Hetzner for your stuff, cuz they will pull your shit offline with little to no warning:

• https://mastodon.social/@kiwix/113622081750449356
• https://tenforward.blog/hetzner-considered-hostile-a-psa/

especially you should not host a fedi instance on hetzner if anyone on your instance posts tits and ass and stuff, they're incredibly prudish about such things (blah blah german law blah blah blah)