Mute clients

[hackertours]

Feature Requests: Mute/Filter specific clients. This would enable us to keep our timeline free from crossposters and other very specific clients.

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[trwnh]

One current problem is that the source app is not federated between servers, so currently it is only visible on local statuses. I do agree that this would be an extremely useful feature, and I enjoy having it in Subway Tooter on my phone.

[Gargron]

Apps do not have the same ID between servers, and some don't even have the same ID between users on the same server. This is because app registration must be automated and anonymous, because a single developer cannot pre-register on every potential Mastodon server. So, I don't know how this is supposed to be accomplished.

[trwnh]

Federating the application should be enough, shouldn't it? Name-based filtering would probably be enough, and there wouldn't be a real need for ID-based filtering. Yes, this probably opens up avenues of name spoofing, but this can already be done right now and also isn't very significant. The current Mastodon API response contains e.g. the following:

"application": {
    "name":"Tusky",
    "website":"https://tuskyapp.github.io/"
}

Either this can be exposed in the ActivityPub representation (perhaps within the mastodon namespace), or the web app can fetch the information via the Mastodon API (less compatible but works right now, e.g. from truncating the ActivityPub id and querying it against the remote instance's /api/v1/statuses).

[nightpool]

i believe ap has a "generator" property that would be ideal for this

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[trwnh]

#8476 is still a blocker on this

[lorenlepton]

im just wondering about this a bit more, since there has been a stupid influx of new users coming to mastodon but still crossposting & obviously the stress the servers have more than likely taken for everyone on here & other servers

it would be lovely to have such a feature, because, in all honesty, its fucking shite having that drek come over at such a fevered rate. even more so now

I love the work being done though & fully appreciate the time & effort put into the project