Talk:Mastodon

Although I was not the user who undid the edit adding “pawoo.net”, I figured I’d clarify that Pawoo.net is a corporate owned Japanese instance representing Pixiv, and is actually blocked or silenced by many instances due to its policies permitting loli/shota content. 2600:1008:B108:8709:2C3E:4238:CE18:5758 08:52, 21 December 2018 (EST)

Non-anthro?

I think this might be a mistake, but the mascot is labeled as non-anthropomorphic despite him showing very human traits (i.e. standing on two legs, painting, doing generally human things, etc.) DonutBandit (talk) 19:46, 31 May 2019 (EDT)

Also silenced here

Apologies if I'm using this page incorrectly, I'm rather new to contributing towards Wikis but I still wish to do my fair share :) Please point out where and what I'm doing wrong.

We at The Drake Network are one such instance who have silenced pawoo.net and we see a reasonable amount of activity from accounts of which are silenced as a result in the moderation panel, despite our own small size as well (sub-25 user count). I just had the desire to state that there are definitely furry instances who silence/restrict them, and we've done it for at least a month now. PhobosDthorga (talk) 6:10 PM, 08 June 2019 (AEST)

Mastodon and furry table

I started an edit to to add to the Mastodon#Mastodon_and_furry section, by adding a registration column (whether an instance is open or closed to registration) and another column for how much an instance is connected to other instances
example #1: https://akko.unix.dog/about includes "Local Bubble Instances" (not sure what that means ... my wild guess is LBI is a form of allowlist), "Instance-specific policies" (with "Reject" and "Removal..." sections)(I don't know what the difference is between Reject and Removal in this context)
example #2: https://awoo.space/about/more#whitelist has a posted allowlist/whitelist, but doesn't seem to have a posted blocklist (guessing anything not in their allowlist is blocked by default??)
example #3: blimps.xyz doesn't seem to have posted any list-of-instances (allowlist or otherwise).
Perhaps an additional Registration column is ok?
Adding a column for allowlists, etc seems too complicated (in terms of difference between Reject, Removal, etc.) --EarthFurst (talk) 19:45, 17 November 2022 (EST)

Could a 'notes' column work for this? Adding a footnote about awoo.space being allowlist-only seems sensible, at least, as that can result in a drastically different end-user experience than the majority of instances that use blocklists instead.

On a more general note, should this table be moved out of this article completely? Technically speaking, whilst most of them are Mastodon instances, some of them are not; and all of them are interoperable with other ActivityPub-protocol applications like Calckey, Pleroma and Pixelfed. We would be able to list all of them together if we moved this table to (for example) "List of furry ActivityPub instances" or "List of federated furry social networks" or something similar. — beeps (talk, contribs) 10:06, 30 January 2023 (EST)

I've taken some initiative and written some (very hacky) code to generate this table's wiki markup, including automating the user counts and registration statuses.

On the up side, this should make maintaining the table relatively painless, as it's automatically pulling the metadata directly from the instance's public-facing API endpoint. It also means that instances that shut down or go offline can be automatically removed, as their API requests will fail. We just need to keep the list of instances in the git repo up to date.

On the down side, the user counts also wildly differ from those usually visible on Mastodon, as it's using stats on the total number of accounts rather than the number of recently active accounts. We also lose the refs, but I'm not sure how valuable those are in the first place. A bad API response is also a flaky definition of 'shut down'.

I'm gonna swap out the current table for my generated one (just so numbers are up to date and instances that have disappeared are removed), but whether we use it going forward is something we can discuss. — beeps (talk, contribs) 08:02, 8 April 2023 (EDT)