So I reached out to admins of the few instances that block us with a polite email explaining some of the misinformation spread about us in the pastt and describing the situation in some detail in the hopes it will be resolved.

Luckily nearly all the instances are very small and its not a big deal since our federation footprint remains one of the largest int he fediverse, but I felt it was an effort worth making.

Anyway, seems the drama is already begining and even more flat out lies are getting thrown around be a few:

cloudisland.nz/@aurynn/1093610

cloudisland.nz/@aurynn/1093610

Luckily despite a few bad actors most of the people I contacted reached out to me in good faith and several seem to be willing to reverse the ban. Lets hope the people who actually bother to fact-check win out on this one.

@freemo
I saw this and a few other conversations like it, and frankly it made me feel okay that these folks are not federated with us - if this kind of toxicity and personal insults are what they jump to when they see a polite attempt to communicate, it's unlikely they bring much of value anyway.

@digital_carver I tend to agree, a large portion of tthe instances that block us have a few things in common between them (not all)

- They tend to be very toxic
- They tend to lie or at least dont fact-check gossip they hear (in factt when you ask for sources they will block you for daring to question them)
- They have massive block lists that block the majority of the fediverse.

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@freemo @digital_carver well, at least one academic I follow blocked qoto because of this nonsense. So it is a bit annoying. but I support qoto's position!

@jerlich

Can't win-em-all .... frankly anyone who would block us either doesnt fact-check or is likely to be just plain toxic.. i dont mind addressing the former as best I cann.

@digital_carver

@davoloid

The follow button becomes inactive if you are blocked or if you click it it says pending and never goes through.

@jerlich @digital_carver

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