works for me

the main thing I want my instance to defederate from is spambot farms, defederating because of political moderation policies is censorship and not moderation

Nah this entire thread is a perfect illustration why US First Amendment standards for free speech are (roughly) good and should be adopted in all countries. This is where it ends when you start to think it’s ok to criminalize “hate speech” or “terrorist propaganda” or “approval of criminal acts”.

dammit the bot was faster than even the explainxkcd page creation bot, not to even speak of https://mastodon.xyz/@xkcd :o

Are you sure you will be allowed to drive a manual car in Romania with your American license if you didn’t take the test with a manual car? I live in a different European country and here if you take the test with an automatic car, you are only allowed to drive automatic cars. You should research this.

It’s definitely different from an automatic car and requires more concentration. Once you get used to it, it’s not difficult. I was older than you are now when I learned to drive at all (which I did on a manual car) and managed it anyway.

Spain is mostly very sparsely populated outside of big cities.

But of course this isn’t a map of tennis courts, it’s a map of tennis courts that are entered in OpenStreetMap.

https://www.gnu.org/distros/common-distros.html

Für alle, die damit nicht vertraut sind (so wie ich): https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15%2F47.99905%2F11.34214

Nur von der Karte her sage ich: welch ein Blödsinn, keinen Haltepunkt möglichst nahe am Ortszentrum vorzusehen, wie kommt man überhaupt auf die Idee.

if you can post text, you can post base64-encoded data, incl. images

https://xkcd.com/1381/

Legal questions can’t be meaningfully answered without a location. But there are many places where there are laws against that and this can be a crime.

Ihr habt keine Möglichkeit, nur neue Beiträge dort zu verhindern und/oder sie aus der Community-Suche zu entfernen? Aber sonst aufrufbar zu lassen?

IMHO messages from things you’ve signed up to are unlikely to be “spam”. I’ve always understood that word to mainly mean completely unsolicited messages from people you have no previous relationship with at all; though if it’s clearly unwanted it might include some of the former too.

I suspect you already know about Meads v Meads. Paragraph 73 of that provides some clues:

All this is a consequence of the fact gurus proclaim they know secret principles and law, hidden from the public, but binding on the state, courts, and individuals.

Many people like the thought that they know something no one else knows or that at least most people don’t know. Including things about the law.

[email protected]

Ja, aber nur auf unserer Instanz, nicht auf anderen.

How old is “old” for this purpose?

The dataset might contain only (or be filtered for) confirmed email addresses, ie. where someone actually clicked the confirmation link. That would make this very unlikely.

It would be possible to set up an instance where users could post as guests, ie everyone who did that would appear as the same user, something like [email protected].

It is also likely that such accounts would soon be banned in many places because people will use them to post unwanted posts and comments.

“Mastodon” is probably not doing that, a specific instance might be though?