* When you discover your Instance is blocked. *
After creating a new blog post, I prepare text for announcing it. This is posted at my main instance, and later I visit other accounts, search for that Status URL, and boost it from there.
In one case, I could not find the status on that normal search. Odd. What is going on?
A search for my user profile at Qoto did not bring ANY results either. It dawned on me that something was amiss...
On today's web magazine, live at : https://write.tedomum.net/rgx/when-you-discover-your-instance-is-blocked
@design_RG This is actually why I switched to qoto.org. They seem to want to defederate from anyone who doesn't believe in defederating from gab et al.
It's a bit sad and honestly one of the most offputting parts of the fediverse for me.
@pganssle, same story here (mastodon.technology → qoto.org).
For me, the alarm went off in December last year, when I shared a quote (verbatim, without commentary) from a Scientific American article, and ashfurrow@mastodon.technology replied privately:
“Spreading sexist misinformation violates our code of conduct. This is your only warning that this isn’t acceptable on this instance.”
After that, when I tried to migrate my followers, I discovered about his blocking qoto.org.
@design_RG, are discussions still at an impasse?
Just curious. To be honest, at this point I think it'd be best if mastodon.technology simply suffered the consequences of its own bad policies — I want to see the smart users migrating away from it.
First of all - I am very thankful for you discovering and bringing to light this thread.
I am in the middle of serious thinking about these issues - and how a particular person's actions, biases and attittude can impact on the sites, the community of users.
I was quite polite (as my usual) in reporting that last contact with Mr. Furrow. He was short and Blunt, and I will now post it here, since your post adds evidence of his type of action and nature.
Screenshot, reply letter dated Jan 20, 2020. Our last contact, as per his clear request.
@design_RG I get why some instances want to block certain content, but blocking the ones that refuse to use the same rules is just borderline tyrannical.
I don't want to be rude to Ash, but it's just... narcissistic to think you know enough to tell others what to do and how to run their own instances, but then acting high and mighty when when being reasoned with? There's some underlying cause to that kind of superiority complex.
My background is in environmental science, so I know basically nothing about psych, but even I get concerned when encountering that kind of behaviour.
I was writing a long reply here, but you took it off for redraft, lol... :P
No problem and actually BETTER -- as I posted it Top Level for exposure.
See it here : https://qoto.org/@design_RG/104275469850810101
@design_RG Sorry! My typos!
Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this out in the open.
Yeah, I probably would have had a slightly different approach and actively avoided being confrontational if it were me that was addressing him. However, since Ash doesn't even want to see what's being written here now, I'm just going to speak freely and plainly.
I would probably also be a bit prickly if someone called me naive, but I wouldn't just shut down like a child having a temper tantrum.
@design_RG Wow. That was incredibly rude to shut down communication in that manner. I assume the irony is lost to them though. Fortunately, more and more users on that side are becoming aware of the issue.
@tripu @pganssle