I don't like that you can deactivate an account for a short period but you can't do that here.
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I don't like that you can deactivate an account for a short period but you can't do that here. A little annoying. It'd be a boolean flag and some materialized views, no?
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I don't like that you can deactivate an account for a short period but you can't do that here. A little annoying. It'd be a boolean flag and some materialized views, no?
@jalcine a boolean flag is the easy part. the hard part is getting 100 softwares to understand the boolean flag and 30,000 servers to update :-)
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@jalcine a boolean flag is the easy part. the hard part is getting 100 softwares to understand the boolean flag and 30,000 servers to update :-)
@jalcine of course you could just settle for a local-only deactivation, and accept that remote servers will continue to show your profile and posts unaware. i think there might be an issue about this for mastodon at least
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@jalcine of course you could just settle for a local-only deactivation, and accept that remote servers will continue to show your profile and posts unaware. i think there might be an issue about this for mastodon at least
@trwnh @jalcine there are probably ways to do it that don't require 100+ pieces of software to learn your new flag.
I'd probably change the account name and description to "[Suspended]" and make new properties for the former name and description and so on.
So software that wants that info can get it, but everyone else sees a clear indication that the account is shut down.
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@trwnh @jalcine there are probably ways to do it that don't require 100+ pieces of software to learn your new flag.
I'd probably change the account name and description to "[Suspended]" and make new properties for the former name and description and so on.
So software that wants that info can get it, but everyone else sees a clear indication that the account is shut down.
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@evan @jalcine that doesn't hide existing posts, though. the goal is to make things not show up during the deactivation window. in a system where everyone fetches from one origin, this is easy. in a system where each origin maintains its own state, this becomes a state synchronization problem.
bluesky can do it easily because their "one origin" for most people is bsky.app, which 99.99% of people use as opposed to something like deer.social which lets you ignore flags.
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@evan @jalcine that doesn't hide existing posts, though. the goal is to make things not show up during the deactivation window. in a system where everyone fetches from one origin, this is easy. in a system where each origin maintains its own state, this becomes a state synchronization problem.
bluesky can do it easily because their "one origin" for most people is bsky.app, which 99.99% of people use as opposed to something like deer.social which lets you ignore flags.
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