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I understood atleast a couple of those words

Kye 8y ago
Translation: every weird niche interest can have its own server for its community with its own rules, culture, and user experience while still communicating with other servers.
- mgoia 8y ago
  That is correct in theory. But in practice, other servers will block your server if the rules deviate from the mainstream rules, effectively isolating your server.
  - Spivak 8y ago
    Well yeah, what's the point of having rules on an instance if you can just break them by moving to another but still participate?
    - mgoia 8y ago
      Then the comment I replied to was wrong. There is no interconnected network of servers with different rules.
      - deleted 8y ago
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  - metildaa 8y ago
    If your users post hate speech, child porn or run amok reply guying, then yes your likely to not federate with other instances. For other differing rules, instaces generally silence from the federated timeline. Eg: I can still follow Humblr.social and Sinblr users, but Federated timeline users won't have to drown in porn if the admin silences the server.
  - zaarn 8y ago
    Your server will be isolated from some other servers, but it's actually pretty hard to isolate your instance so that you're completely alone in the fediverse.
- aldoushuxley001 8y ago
  I mainly got hung up on these words: "We boop snoots instead of boosting toots". Are these mastadon-specific terms?
  - dbasedweeb 8y ago
    I googled this, and was very very sorry that I did. Suffice it to say this terminology is specific to a subculture of people who dress up as animal mascots. Booping snoots apparently means touching the nose, I think? I also ran across something called “cub porn” and now I need a shower so hot it can melt glass.
    - arthur_pryor 8y ago
      fwiw, after reading this post, i searched "boop snoots" (with quotes) on both duckduckgo and google, and came up with nothing disturbing in the first page of results for either search. nothing that even indicated a connection to furry subculture, far as i could tell. maybe other variations on that search come up with much more risque results?
      - dbasedweeb 8y ago
        I didn’t just google “boop snoots;” I googled that, googled “furries” and went down the rabbit hole a bit. ...A decision I now heartily regret. The two major things I found is that some people are very weird, and some other people hate the weird ones disproportionately considering their prevalence and general demeanor.
        arthur_pryor 8y ago
        ah, yeah, well, sorry. maybe don't chase that rabbit like that next time? also i find the "rabbit hole" metaphor and a username beginning with "dbased" to be pretty "on the nose" in the context of this thread (sorry, i couldn't resist any of that, and i only realized i ended with a pun after typing it out).
        egypturnash 8y ago

Kye 8y ago

Translation: every weird niche interest can have its own server for its community with its own rules, culture, and user experience while still communicating with other servers.

mgoia 8y ago
That is correct in theory. But in practice, other servers will block your server if the rules deviate from the mainstream rules, effectively isolating your server.
- Spivak 8y ago
  Well yeah, what's the point of having rules on an instance if you can just break them by moving to another but still participate?
  - mgoia 8y ago
    Then the comment I replied to was wrong. There is no interconnected network of servers with different rules.
    - deleted 8y ago
      [deleted]
- metildaa 8y ago
  If your users post hate speech, child porn or run amok reply guying, then yes your likely to not federate with other instances. For other differing rules, instaces generally silence from the federated timeline. Eg: I can still follow Humblr.social and Sinblr users, but Federated timeline users won't have to drown in porn if the admin silences the server.
- zaarn 8y ago
  Your server will be isolated from some other servers, but it's actually pretty hard to isolate your instance so that you're completely alone in the fediverse.
aldoushuxley001 8y ago
I mainly got hung up on these words: "We boop snoots instead of boosting toots". Are these mastadon-specific terms?
- dbasedweeb 8y ago
  I googled this, and was very very sorry that I did. Suffice it to say this terminology is specific to a subculture of people who dress up as animal mascots. Booping snoots apparently means touching the nose, I think? I also ran across something called “cub porn” and now I need a shower so hot it can melt glass.
  - arthur_pryor 8y ago
    fwiw, after reading this post, i searched "boop snoots" (with quotes) on both duckduckgo and google, and came up with nothing disturbing in the first page of results for either search. nothing that even indicated a connection to furry subculture, far as i could tell. maybe other variations on that search come up with much more risque results?
    - dbasedweeb 8y ago
      I didn’t just google “boop snoots;” I googled that, googled “furries” and went down the rabbit hole a bit. ...A decision I now heartily regret. The two major things I found is that some people are very weird, and some other people hate the weird ones disproportionately considering their prevalence and general demeanor.
      - arthur_pryor 8y ago
        ah, yeah, well, sorry. maybe don't chase that rabbit like that next time? also i find the "rabbit hole" metaphor and a username beginning with "dbased" to be pretty "on the nose" in the context of this thread (sorry, i couldn't resist any of that, and i only realized i ended with a pun after typing it out).
      - egypturnash 8y ago