It's funny to me, when an instance's internal Block List is longer than their own Users List.
Rage on, love.
@design_RG my users list is infinitely longer than my block list, because im 1 user and have 0 blocks
@chris Visited and see that it is Mastodon.
But you have the sign up screen open, no?
I run a personal Write.as instance, but just internally, not federated -- as a work space for my blog pages creation. Instant saves and updates, good to fix formatting, etc. Then when it's all good, copy/paste to the online, live blog.
@chris Very cool. I noticed your first comment in this topic has a large number of Boosts -- so there's people out on Fediverse that agree and like what you are doing.
WE have a very open instance here, in terms of federation. No Blocks at all, I believe. A couple instances Silenced, due to their response to serious issues, but still not a had block.
Was really surprised to find a large Technology Mastodon instance that blocked us - for the reason... That we don't Block some other instance, which they Do.
So, Guilty by association, and we were never contacted about it. My appeal for a review of that ended up on 'drop them (certain right wing hellholes) if you want us to federate with Qoto'.
To such a ultimatum, the answer was no. And that was the end of it, I never visited the place or posted there again. I have maybe about 10 accounts, and even blogged on the differences about instances, and WHY it's important to choose one for your needs or likes.
It is here : https://write.tedomum.net/rgx/is-it-important-which-instance-you-are-in
@design_RG Totally, I'd rather get excluded by the instances who want censorship than join them. I get a lot of things I don't agree or identify with in my feed, but I can just scroll on :)
@chris That is the idea.
But there's militant people with acronyms galore who want to impose their ideas on others. And on the other side, some real weird people I am not interested on, so I personally block their instance(s).
Wonderful that mastodon offers that control to ALL users, and very simply too.
@design_RG it's a great thing to at least have the choice yourself rather than having that choice made for you
@chris Yes, I like that too.
@design_RG I really can't remember whether I opened it or not, either way I don't see why I wouldn't allow others to register. Most of my friends don't care about decentralization or social media in the first place, so I haven't really been able to get them on here.