*banned 4 MarkDown love* @design_RG@qoto.org

@namark Ah, thank you!!

@bukbak Yes, we can see their posts it seems -- I just read some posts from a thread that Paul started there and linked above - https://mastodon.technology/@pganssle/103199195138668923

...which shows in my search here no problems.

And liked the reply Wolfie posted on it.

https://pleroma.wolfie.pw/objects/fc9d1d3f-5c51-4849-b23e-63cb56c4444d

Snapshot below. I am still start and going thru the thread, looks like material for another, follow-up to my blog of today. 😃

@achso@mastodon.social Sadly, having this policy of not blocking any instance unless there's problems, and they cannot be solved by dialogue with their admins, is what caused us to be lumped with Gab, and a number of instances which are less notorious; but some of which I have reticence to, due to their borderline content, which I find offensive personally (lolicon).

We discussed that, as a staff, and unless there's trouble the policy is to leave connections open here.

@achso@mastodon.social Gab is widely perceived so, Achso. They are a group of Right wingers, there's a lot of content many of us find insulting, racist or worse. White supremacist groups use the place as well.

I personally do not have any interest in their instance and its peripheral ones -- have visited their front doors, incognito, to look an see what posts show in their public feed. Disgusted, I decided to implement a personal ban, blocking their whole instance from my own personal account.

This power, which any Mastodon user has, is wonderful.

I have seen a recent statistics shot that shows they are very, very Insular -- 99% of all posts made there are addressed to users who are in there as well.

@achso@mastodon.social A quick quote from their CofC page :

"Additionally, we will refuse to federate with instances that themselves choose to federate with fascist instances.”

And this is, like I expected, the reason we are black listed.

@namark Thank you for doing due diligence on the photo above, Namark. I took it as a real photo, not a collage of time lapsed data.

do you have any links to these resources you mentioned?

@Sphinx I imagine that automatic transmission vehicles probably have a sensor -- and won't start if transmission is not in Park. (I don't have an automatic, as I prefer manual for my vehicles. More fun, imo).

@pganssle Thank you Paul for your reply and the link, I will be checking it.

Since I had taken the time to prepare a very formal letter, and thought this is an important issue, I prepared a blog post too, with the full letter plus supporting reasoning and links.

When I finished and was just starting to announce the blog, I received a reply from Mr Furrow, very prompt and corteous too. It confirmed the reason for our black listing being exactly the fact we don't block ceartain instances that M.T. prefers no relations with.

Agreed, it's unlikely this will be lifted, as you mentioned.

@achso@mastodon.social LOL, I had a hunch, and it was the right one.

Mr Furrow responded to my letter with promptness, thanked me for mine, and confirmed it was because our instance allows Federation with one in particular that he objects to; and to protect their users, this ban was put in place.

His suggestion, which I will bring to our admin staff is that we dissociate from that particular domain, if we want to federate with his.

* 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

@Sphinx It looks like a Turn indicator light, no?

Check if the stalk is left in the On position. Although my car doesn't have this, it might stay on eve nif power is shut off and car locked.

Australian Bushfires.

Satellite photo by NASA, shared on Twitter.

Shocking, the extents of these fires!

RT of https://mastodon.social/@iamabhigyan07/103434384209063240

Amazing. Just found this at https://www.hatthieves.es/

We got have a copy, so borrowing it. Gracias!

An animation of what a Black Hole might look like. Trippy.

@iankenway With that all said, I feel he's not as bad as the american equivalent. The Dark Side of the Force is strong there, Luke.

I haven't even been reading the news lately, too many dispiriting things in various countries happening.

@Keeneire Not bad as the idiot that posted a set of dick pics uncovered at mastodon.social Local feed the other day.

Makes me feel unproud of my gender, sadly. Too many idiots.

Never as many as now in the high positions of power, indeed. Wish DJT was out there with that spray can instead of vandalizing policy, politics and the world stage.

@smonky @Keeneire LOL..... geez.

Glad there's no coffee mug in my hands right now.

@el_rafa Just beware that any replies or Boosts, likes to the original will be lost -- as it has been deleted.

Time of posting will change to current time, as it is a brand new status in fact.

@el_rafa Have you seen the Delete/Redraft option on the posts yet?

If you just posted something and see an ugly typo, or realized your link is broken, or forgot something - it's a great time saver.

- Click on the dots "..." menu at bottom right of post.
- select Delete/Redraft.

Post will be removed, and its contents copied to the Toot Editor ready for any fix you need.