Since the very beginning, I’ve had integration with the site onto the Fediverse - when you complete or rate stories, it would send a post via an account made for you on the Fediverse via ActivityPub which could then be picked up on Mastodon / Calckey / etc.
I am a big fan of the Fediverse so thought it was a cool feature, and it’s similar to how BookWyrm (a Fediverse-enabled Goodreads clone) does it.
However, it uses a not insignificant amount of resources, and I’m not really finding anyone using it (I bet this is the first you’ve probably heard of this) so for now I will be disabling it!
It may be added back in the future, if I change my mind. Just letting you know!
I knew this was a thing and frankly I’m not a big fan of the idea. I don’t know anyone who uses Mastodon and I haven’t found an opt out button for this feature, which feels like something of a security risk to me. I’m glad to see it getting disabled.
I understand the worry, but it was never a security risk - profiles are public by default and this was just an extension of your profile. No-one could see any more information on you than if they just looked at your profile, or followed you on here. And it was easily turned off.
