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!GNUsocial has a similar feature for administrators called "Silence" #ShadwoBan #ShadowBan
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Sorry, that's "Sandbox", not "Silence". And hardly sinister, it's a useful way of dealing with trolls who would just create a new ID if they were banned outright. #Silence in !GNUsocial is a more visible means of shutting down trolls, but less effective. #Sandbox #ShadowBan
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And that article lost all credibility with me at the phrase "shrieking gamer".
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Even better, you can set up your own !GNUsocial instance. So my GNUsocial timeline isn't polluted with trolls.
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@moonman I first ran into the #Sandbox function while I was giving a demo of !GNUsocial at the KW #LinuxConf. Surprise! We had a conversation about it here shortly afterwards: https://n2.federati.net/conversation/71149#notice-71292
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@bobjonkman2 Myeah, but for the optimal use case we'll have community/friendbased instances where shadowbanning is essentially only done on external accounts. So not as evil as it would be in a centralised system .)
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For sure, as long as there are trolls and spammers a "Community" !GNUsocial instance works better than a "Public" instance.
Bob Jonkman
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