I have notifications on when someone joins and maybe 75% of the time after I see the notification their account is “deleted” because they changed the privacy settings.
It’s not the end of the world but I do wish more people wouldn’t automatically pick the maximum privacy setting so that we could actually, yknow use it
Yeah it’s not for me either, but I also believe that people have a right to not have other’s speech or behavior forced upon them, which is kind of exactly what ActivityPub was created to facilitate and what separates it from corporate platforms.
you learned that? where?
Yes I already confirmed that. Your behavior is completely unrelated to the reason someone might want to block you, I am just a grumpy gus!
They already have Twitter and Reddit!
im no victim i’m the winner here lol
They posted an explanation in the tesseract community, but it boils down to they want the fediverse to succeed and replace reddit, but there is a contingent of toxic users that they feel is hindering that goal so they precompiled a list for new instance admins.
It’s fully optional and can easily be disabled in the UI
Tesseract dev: “I made a list of people who willfully misconstrue things to create drama and play the victim”.
people on that list: “OHH WOW SO I’M A VIOLENT EXTREMIST NOW???”
The dev included an optional toggle to enable “toxic mode” which basically gives you posts and comments from all users and instances. A lot of folks on the “toxic” instances are choosing to interpret this as an attack.
The irony is that throwing tantrums is how they ended up on the “toxic” list in the first place.
Not really, it’s still encrypted. If you’re not a political dissident and just using Signal to chat with friends then it is helpful to make yourself available to said friends.