This tool helps you see how moderation choices made by different communities on the Fediverse affect what shows up in your own personal timeline.
Moderation on the Fediverse is decentralized. Each community makes its own rules and has its own moderators. Moderators do important work that often happens behind the scenes: they follow their community’s rules to remove harmful or unwanted content.
This tool works by querying the public Mastodon APIs on the account's server; thus, at this time, it is only expected to work with Mastodon instances (sorry). In basic mode, it does so without authenticating, so it can only see information made public by the server admins and/or account holders. Some servers do not publicly report information such as activity, and some accounts have their following and followers relationships hidden.
In advanced mode, this tool registers a temporary application with your own Mastodon server and logs you in there via OAuth, so your password is never seen by this site. This uses a technique called PKCE, which makes sure that only this browser - not anyone who might intercept the login on the way - can actually complete the connection and obtain an access token. Clicking "Disconnect" revokes that access token on your server, so it can no longer be used.
All work is done entirely in your browser; no information is sent to the operator of this website. The only server contacted is the one that hosts the account you're looking up - never this website's server. When you connect via OAuth, the resulting access token is likewise never sent anywhere but your own account's server: by default it's kept only in your browser for that tab, or in your browser on this device if you checked "remember me", until you click "Disconnect".
Made with 🐈 by @ricci@discuss.systems . Source on Codeberg and Github