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"description": "Hi @thisismissem, apologies if this has been asked previously.\n\nI noticed upon looking at the IFTAS blocklists that `#severity` is either `silence` or `suspend`. My feeling is that this aligns with Mastodon's usages, since they adopted the format Mastodon uses for shared blocklists.\n\nHas the T&S TF put together a recommended list of levels for federation policies, and if so, do they align with what FIRES would also publish?[...]",
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"textContent": "Hi @thisismissem, apologies if this has been asked previously.\n\nI noticed upon looking at the IFTAS blocklists that `#severity` is either `silence` or `suspend`. My feeling is that this aligns with Mastodon's usages, since they adopted the format Mastodon uses for shared blocklists.\n\nHas the T&S TF put together a recommended list of levels for federation policies, and if so, do they align with what FIRES would also publish?[...]\n\nThis doc article notes that the levels are Reject media, limit, suspend, and blocklist, with \"silence\" being the former name of \"limit\".\n\nRight now NodeBB does a binary \"if you're on the list everything is blocked\" approach, but I'm looking to add some granularity.\n\nThanks!",
"title": "Federation Policies and limit/suspend/etc.?"
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