Q. Anyone have a list of other server instances blocking QOTO?

(those seeing us as spam or hostile, policy mismatches etc).

@freemo #QOTO #Question

General thoughts:
Not blaming QOTO for my low interactions (!) or engagement here but I do have that feeling it might be less and less with others too, as we lean towards certain things more or specialise often, but also maybe the spam accounts sometimes get to other instances (even though we do good job stopping that after being reported) and they think it's like we don't stop them.

Perhaps some policy differences also?

Hard to see and measure being blocked so I wanted to a list of instances blocking QOTO and would be handy not for me to guess we are somewhat isolated (by nature and by misunderstanding QOTO).

@freeschool @freemo you can look up known block announces here https://fba.ryona.agency/?domain=qoto.org

most seem to block because they don't like free speech, even if it's polite like on qoto. or because we federate with "bad people".

@bonifartius

That block list is significantly incorrect. It was meant to be a trolling tool and had some subtle things that intentionally gives bad block data.

Without going into the details most of the things listed there saying they block you will not actually block you.

@freeschool

@freemo @freeschool sure it might be wildly incorrect, yes. the servers i checked in the past were mostly correct though.

i think that the trend of not displaying which servers are blocked is more damaging with regard to the sociological l aspect of a federated network than a tool displaying wrong data might be.

in the end it's just tiresome.

@bonifartius

Every server on that list blocked you for at least 5 minutes at some point in time... but the overwhelming majority either no longer block or dont even exist yet remain listed.

Also many servers are spam servers and were never real.

@freeschool