Turns out this has been an open issue on GitHub for Mastodon core for five years now https://
github.com/mastodon/masto
don/issues/2668
… Not sure if any of the many alternative implementations have it yet
@simonw
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Five-Year GitHub Issue in Mastodon Core Remains Unresolved
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Rich Acquisition Impact on Online Communities and Trust Dynamics
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My problem isn't that it was bought by a rich guy, it's all of the things that particular rich guy has said and done about it in just the first week since taking over Communities are delicate, complex things Did you read the thread about the trust thermocline?
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Elon Musk’s Twitter Management: Irreversible Damage Assessment
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"Maybe Elon will mess up Twitter, but probably not" was my position a week ago Nothing he has said or done in the past week has supported the idea that he's not going to keep causing irreversible damage Did you see the thread about the trust thermocline?
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Running Your Own Instance Without Vendor Lock-in
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No idea I'm afraid! That's why I chose to run my own instance, I didn't want to have to pick one (though apparently you can move between them without losing your profile, which is reassuring)
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Building Tools Responsibly: Ethics of Dual-Use Technology
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I've built tools (like Django) that can be used for truly evil things, and I hate that If Mastodon had been explicitly designed to support evil behaviour I would reject it This particular case feels more to me like rejecting email software because that can be used for evil too
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Lightweight Python SQLite alternatives to Rails PostgreSQL Redis stack
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Yeah the main project is surprisingly heavy: Rails and PostgreSQL and Redis and Sidekiq – there's a lot of state involved! But there are some promising alternatives that are more lightweight – this one is just Python and SQLite for example https://
github.com/tsileo/microbl
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Paying for Mastodon self-hosting as alternative infrastructure choice
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That's one of the reasons I'm paying $9/month for my Mastodon hosting provider – I see it as similar to running your own email server or website hosting
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Billionaire Narcissism and Economic Inequality in Tech Acquisitions
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As I said in my post, "I can’t see myself putting the same work in to help the world’s (current) richest man pay the billion dollar annual interest on the loans he took out to buy the place on a weird narcissistic whim."
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Mastodon APIs: First Technical Discovery and Learning
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The Mastodon APIs are pretty fun, here's my first TIL
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Running Mastodon Server on Masto.host for Nine Dollars Monthly
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I'm paying https://
masto.host $9/month to run a server for me