[Feature Request] Instance-level whitelist

[thedeadparrot]

It would be nice for the admins of instances that are more concerned about privacy/leaking information to be able to choose between using the instance blacklist and an instance whitelist. This is already implemented for awoo.space, the code of which is publicly available.

vahnj/mastodon@2cf7a09
vahnj/mastodon@2fca7e8

I am sure it needs to be cleaned up, have tests added, and so on, but I would love to see this feature more widely available for admins.

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[nightpool]

Searched for a while but couldn't find an issue for this, which feels weird to me—this code has been around for a while.

[nightpool]

Searched for a while but couldn't find an issue for this, which feels weird to me—this code has been around for a while.

[Gargron]

Whitelists go against the spirit of decentralization. If you can't start your own server and join in, but have to go through some kinda review process with every single other node, then you can't really start your own server. So whitelists will never be in the upstream repository.

[Gargron]

Whitelists go against the spirit of decentralization. If you can't start your own server and join in, but have to go through some kinda review process with every single other node, then you can't really start your own server. So whitelists will never be in the upstream repository.