This is pretty good! Like most quick overviews, however, this one is shaped considerably by the writer's experiences. Experiences of the writer that I don't sh

This is pretty good! Like most quick overviews, however, this one is shaped considerably by the writer's experiences. Experiences of the writer that I don't share include: > It's possible for users to require permission before accepting follows. Most users do. Yes, it's possible. I'm not sure what percentage of the people I try to follow require approval, but offhand I'd say it's less than 10%. Far from "most." > Most users block everyone from mastodon.social simply because it's full of randos. Another "most." I guess I can't speak for users but it turns out there's a way to see what the most-active blockers around (the "FediCouncil") are blocking at the server level[0]. It turns out that mastodon.social is not in the Tier 0 or Tier 1 blocklists, but is in the Tier 2 blocklist. So greater than 33%, but fewer than 50% of blocklists include mastodon.social. Clearly, however, the writer is on a server that does. > There is no quote-retweet on Mastodon. This is on purpose. What follows is an explanation of why, but this explanation is both incorrect, and out of date, since the primary developer of mastodon has put "quote-toots" on the dev roadmap, primarily in response to people often suggested as the primary targets of hate on twitter, who said nearly-unanimously that quote-tweets were not the cause, and were in fact helpful. My own server lets me quote posts, and many of the GUI clients similarly allow for quoting posts in different ways. So the average user experience may be more likely to allow quoting than not, but if not yet, then in the near future. Overall, though, pretty good summary piece. 0. https://codeberg.org/oliphant/blocklists/src/branch/main/blocklists https://codeberg.org/oliphant/blocklists/src/branch/main/blo...