Biggest disappointment with :mastodon: 4.2 webUI thus far: can't hide link previews. At the very least, the card should be blurred (https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/29431), but I'd still like the option back to not show it at all.
But, like, this problem is new to 4.2. In 4.1, this didn't and couldn't happen, because of how cards/previews were handled. They somehow managed to unsolve it.
A bit of an update to the Cineplex facial recognition/demanding masks be removed issue. I was at their Lansdowne theatre a couple of months ago to watch All of Us Strangers, obviously before this policy was adopted. But I won't be going back there, or to any Cineplex, while this policy exists.
I am a strong FAFO proponent. FAFO is the literal fucking essence of learning, growing (as in personally and in one's decision making, not the capitalist defintiion of cancerous growth), or at least facing consequences for unwillingness to do so.
Edit: I didn't like my framing so changed inability to unwillingness.
@elana As I understand it, if a server/admin has not enabled the 'Authorized Fetch' setting, an individual domain block operates like a mute. With AF enabled, it should act like a proper block.
I'm trying to remember if there's a way to identify if enabled/disabled..
What you've detailed is also my understanding/expectation of the differences between mute and block. I think this is a long discussed issue with the phrase 'domain block' in the user-facing UI of mastodon: that it really doesn't function as such by default, though recent elucidations (as above) seem to indicate that with AF enabled it will.
@elana I believe there is opportunity for that in the absence of AF.
Obv it'll still depend to some extent on your reach/search/privacy settings, the privacy of the post, and whether your followers who are followed by threads users boost or reply, etc, but..
Although we've been discussing AF and things related in the zeroes' moderation and policy matrix rooms for months, I still wouldn't consider myself an expert -- it's a complex, technical topic.
If you think "long covid isn't real" and "long covid doesn't exist" mean the same thing as "long covid may be pretty similar to other post-viral conditions" then you probably shouldn't be sharing your opinions on covid on public platforms, IMO.
@3TomatoesShort though I've seen the latter used to lift up and include folks with mecfs and other chronic conditions, I've also seen it used shove down and marginalize folks with long covid. It's especially bad when professionals and so-called experts are the ones doing the shoving 😞
> Human Coronaviruses and Other Respiratory Viruses: Underestimated Opportunistic Pathogens of the Central Nervous System? https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/12/1/14