Congrats. This is my last remaining form of social media, but once I got my feed and block lists curated, it’s been pretty great here.

Cool, thanks!

Is there a Github link?

That’s a question for the admins there, but HC is the spiritual successor of, and ran by the same team as, ExplodingHeads. EH was frequently defederated for homophobia, transphobia, bigotry, racism, conspiracy, brigading, hate speech, and general toxicity.

I’m not sure if they’ve cleaned up their act since rebranding, but maybe they figured they’d start out with just the big instances since they were frequently de-federated before?

Context:

• https://hilariouschaos.com/comment/9345
• https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/exploding-heads.com
• https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/hilariouschaos.com

I think you just answered your own question. If ponder.cat isn’t on their white list, content won’t federate.

He was recurring character Officer Don / Sally’s boyfriend from mid season 1 through the end of the show. He did 3rd Rock and Seinfeld at the same time.

I’m actually watching it now. I wanted to post a clip but ended up watching/posting this instead. They’ve still got great group chemistry after all these years.

I can’t say I notice any difference, either**, but it does seem like it reduces headaches for me and makes it easier on my eyes in low light.

** I’m an insomniac, so “better sleep” is often “any sleep I can get” lol.

I just manually turn on “Night light” if I need it before it automatically kicks in. I think that’s available in stock, but I only have LineageOS on my devices.

AOSP keyboard on my regular smartphone, Traditional T9 on my daily driver CAT S22 Flip.

This is some, like, old school Ben Heck-style mod. Impressive!

Also, anyone know what Ben’s been up to lately? I used to see his mods pop up on Hack a Day every few weeks, but I don’t think I’ve seen anything about him for many years now. His last blog entry is from early 2022.

Lol, thanks. I just try to curate the best experience as I can for my instance.

Re: Defederation

Maybe they got a pass if the in-game graphics were better than the box art? 😆

I can’t research it at the moment, but I want to say that was a common thing in the pre-NES days, and I think Nintendo required actual gameplay graphics to be shown on the box because of that.

Could be off on the specifics, but I do vaguely recall those kinds of non-representative box art having some controversy.

Agree. If you’re not interested in something, just block the community/curate your feed and don’t spam downvotes. It’s like intentionally showing up somewhere you don’t want to be just to “boooo” everything.

Steps in Tesseract:

1. Click the community name in the post to bring up the community profile modal.

2. Click “Block Community”

3. You and the people minding their own business with their own interests can now both be happy.

Bonus: This works from the feed and from the post. If you’re in the feed when you block a community, any other posts to that community will magically disappear.

Edit: Updated the images so OP didn’t think I was throwing shade (I wasn’t)

They simply filter communities from those instances, and not much else. It doesn’t even hide user interactions from those instances.

Yep. “Block instance” is basically “block all communities on this instance”. Its API-level behavior leaves a lot to be desired.

Some UIs will filter users from blocked instances (posts and comments). I know Tesseract does, and I think maybe Boost does?

Holy crap, I forgot Cro existed.

Before I completely defederated from them, their “news” communities were the first ones I ever had to administratively remove/hide because it was nothing but propaganda and bad faith posts.

“One of the biggest functions of blocking is giving women the ability to stop weird men from constantly making them uncomfortable and scared,” one user wrote. “So of course Elon had to change that.”

They buried the lede a bit there, but that’s pretty much it.

No. Just…no.