Mike Macgirvin

We did this some years ago (starting around 2010)  using what is now known as OpenWebAuth - which brings cross-domain single sign-on to the fediverse. We can bounce around different instances in our sector of the fediverse and leave "wall to wall posts" as well as comments and follow people with a single click from all over the fedi and never see this kind of stuff. It also lets us share private photos/media with restricted audiences of our choosing and control the ability of these media entities to federate.   I've stopped trying to promote the idea because nobody outside our projects saw any value in it - although recently somebody provided a demo of OpenWebAuth in pixelfed - providing this kind of seamless single click experience and protected media access with Hubzilla. I have no idea if the pull request will get approved. Eugen also came up with a way to do this for Mastodon folks involving custom protocol handlers and js promises. Don't know if that code still exists or what happened to it.

We built a number of algorithms for streams and gave them all to our members. The only thing the admin needs to do is moderate the public stream (but we also let you disable that completely since it's usually just a cesspool of spam and bullshit); and most of our sites are small sites for family and friends who don't want the legal liability of unwashed public content that can land them in jail.

Which conservative asshole? I remember when it and the whole Time-Warner enterprise were bought by Steve Case (America Online) because the same asshole bought the little internet browser startup where I was employed. I'm not familiar with any other conservative assholes that have taken the reigns over the years but then again, I haven't been paying much attention. The website is stuffed chockers with malware and spyware and click-bait and auto-play videos and is pretty hostile to humans -- and we don't get their cable channels on this side of the planet.