HEY @Gargron THIS REPRESENTS A SACRIFICE OF A CLEAR AND CONSISTENT USER EXPERIENCE IN FAVOR OF PROMOTING THE MOST ENGAGEMENT AT ALL COSTS. BLOCK SHOULD MEAN BLOCK. ANYWAY I'M GOING TO GO EAT A BUG
PLEASE NOTE THAT EVEN WITH SECURE MODE ON, INFORMATION IN 🔓 UNLOCKED POSTS AND USER PROFILES REMAINS PUBLICLY POSTED TO HTML FILES ON THE INTERNET, AS IT ALWAYS HAS. ANY INFORMATION ON YOUR USER PROFILE OR IN 🔓 UNLOCKED AND REBLOGGABLE POSTS IS TRIVIALLY EASY TO ACCESS BY ANYONE. THIS CHANGE ONLY IMPACTS TIMELINE BEHAVIOR FOR BLOCKED OR SUSPENDED USERS.
THIS FEATURE BEING OFF LED TO ALREADY PUBLICLY AVAILABLE INFORMATION BEING CACHED AND FEDERATED TO USERS THAT SHOULD NOT HAVE RECEIVED IT IN THEIR TIMELINES (I.E. BLOCKED OR SUSPENDED USERS).
THIS MEANS THAT USERS WHO ARE BLOCKED BY SHRIKE CLUB USERS OR SUSPENDED BY THE INSTANCE WOULD STILL SEE PUBLIC 🔓 **UNLOCKED** 🔓 POSTS ON THEIR TIMELINE THAT WERE REBLOGGED ONTO IT BY USERS NOT BLOCKED BY THE POSTER.
NOTABLY, THIS DOES NOT REPRESENT A COMPROMISE OF POSTS ON 🔏 LOCKED OR ✉️ DIRECT MESSAGES.
I HAVE ENABLED SECURE MODE ON SHRIKE.CLUB. CERTAIN FEATURES, SUCH AS THREADS WITH USERS ON OTHER INSTANCES, MAY BECOME LESS FUNCTIONAL.
I'LL GO OVER A FEW IMPLICATIONS OF THIS CHANGE AND WHY THIS DEFAULTING TO "OFF," AND BURYING THIS OPTION IN THE SUPPLEMENTAL DOCUMENTATION, REPRESENTS A SIGNIFICANT THREAT TO USER SAFETY ON THE FEDIVERSE AND MAKES THE SECURITY FEATURES IN MASTODON AS SHIPPED ACTIVELY MISLEADING.
OKAY WELL THE DOWNTIME TONIGHT AINT HAPPENING TONIGHT
ALSO CONGRATULATIONS YOU ALL ON 271648 MEDIA ATTACHMENTS. WOW
I AM BEGINNING TO COPY A LOT OF SHIT. THE SITE WILL NOT GO DOWN BUT I WILL LIKELY CHUG.
SLOW ASS BIRD
alright new people means im gonna have to upgrade my shit so it doesnt run out of disk space and crash every 2 hours. this means im going to have to set things up on AWS, and it will require what should HOPEFULLY be a brief outage later this evening
also if you want to contribute for the costs of hosting hit up the link
https://liberapay.com/katemitchell
bird out
@inarguableaxis SEND ME ANOTHER FOLLOW REQUEST I ACIDENTALLY DECLINED THE FIRST ONE. IT IS HARD TO TYPE WITH BEAK
I USE THE DEFAULT IPTABLES SETTINGS AND THE DEFAULT ELASTICSEARCH SETTINGS EXACTLY AS RECOMMENDED IN MASTO DOCUMENTATION. NOT SURE WHAT I NEED TO CHANGE https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/optional/elasticsearch/
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