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Yeah, but it's email without spam protections of any kind. I ran a homeserver for a little while and didn't want to store the kind of content that came flowing
by dingnuts 3y ago
Yeah, but it's email without spam protections of any kind. I ran a homeserver for a little while and didn't want to store the kind of content that came flowing in through the federation endpoints from the moment I interacted with another server.
I'm not sure exactly how Mastodon/Pleroma crawl remote homeservers once they're discovered, but I saw a lot of objectionable content on the "Known Network" view from users I did not follow and that I did not want on my machine, nor did I want to wade through and delete things.
I uninstalled.
- kstrauser 3y agoThat's not the default behavior. Mastodon has 3 built-in timelines: - Your "home" TL with people you follow, and the stuff they post/repost/etc. - The "local" TL with the users on your server. - The "federated" TL that's the union of all the people that users on your server follow. Like if you and I are the only 2 people on that instance, and you follow {A, B, C}, and I follow {B, C, D}, then the federated TL will have posts from {A, B, C, D}. That's it. There's no proactive reaching out and pulling in content from the rest of the fediverse. The one other possibility would be if you configured your instance to use a "relay" of content from other instances you wouldn't normally connect to, which is something optional you have to add.
- jdofaz 3y agoOne issue I've run into with unexpected NSFW in my federated TL on a single user instance is when people I follow reply to an unfollowed account's NSFW post, when the reply gets sent to my server it fetches the parent post