Can anyone who understands how this platform works better than me explain why we can’t have crucial harassment tools like restricting replies to mutuals only, or mass blocking? Also any reason we can’t get link previews on here? Just curious if these are things that can ever be implemented 🙏🏻
@taylorlorenz Seems like this federation of sites is in that place twitter used to be before it reached a critical mass of needing those kinds of things. Hopefully it all gets implemented soon, otherwise we'll all be moving somewhere else again in a few months.
@infinite_loopy @taylorlorenz This page is a good start how Mastodon works: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/ I have not reviewed the specific questions, what is implemented and not, one way or another. Note that each instance may decide differently what they implement, which release they currently have. Also apps can vary what and how they implement. Can also be a reason a feature is not desirable. Existing ideas and your own on the github. Note this is free open source; FOSS!
