#qoto does not work properly guys, all my actual #friends who were trying to find me on #Mastodon said I didn't show up, and when I tried to link to my #followers here to my new #instance, searching for #qoto no-one shows up. Not sure what has happened, but if you see this #toot and want to carry on following me, go to @mandaroza
https://mastodonapp.uk/@mandaroza and hopefully it will work ok.

@mandaroza @mandaroza Qoto works fine. It's probably that your friends are on servers who have blocked Qoto. We can't do much about that, and it's something that happens in the Fediverse when it is filled with all independent servers.

This is the very reason Qoto tries not to block any servers because that breaks federation as you and your friends have noticed.

@trinsec absolutely almost no one I know can see me as their servers block qoto, and it is too frustrating being invisible. I do not know why I ended up choosing Qoto, it was too early in the morning, several months ago.... I do not know why other servers block this one though, any ideas?

@mandaroza Yes, that is far from 'not working properly' though, so that's a bit unfair to say.

But I understand the frustration. If your friends' servers block Qoto (there's a little history with this, @freemo has posted about this a few times), and you want to be able to chat with your friends, there are a few options available:

- Either you and/or your friends move to another server that can see the other server so you can communicate with each other.

- You could create a 2nd account to communicate with your friends (this isn't uncommon actually, every instance has their own 'view' of the Fediverse due to the nature of every server deciding for themselves who to block and who not).

You'll have to discuss with your friends what the best course of action would be in your case, and possibly you'll have to either move or create an alt-account somewhere else.

Whatever you decide, I wish you the best.

@trinsec @freemo I made another account so I can be on their radar. i just wondered whether people on this server knew they were blocked by other servers, I didn't know until now.

@mandaroza
Well, it's not exactly a secret that there are a group of servers blocking Qoto. I mean, @freemo was pretty vocal about it before the holidays. ;)

The problem is that there are other servers who block Qoto because Qoto doesn't block the same servers as they do... Qoto refuses to join in that childish mentality.

But because of Qoto's no-block stance we also are very reasonably well-connected with the rest of the Fediverse. It just looks like your friends happen to be on those block-happy instances, so that's bad luck.

@trinsec @freemo well, the stuff that was showing up before the holiday made me realise I would prefer a bit more blocking tbh

@mandaroza
That's fair. We won't hold it against you if you prefer to be active somewhere else. Some people do want walled gardens without having to go block the nasty stuff by themselves and we understand that.

Again, it's your decision. We can't force you to stay or something. :) All I can do is wishing you good luck on your decision.

@freemo