This (accidental, temporary) blocking also hit me. It even cut me off from my spouse! (Fortunately, she's right across the breakfast table.)
Is there any way to reconnect (or even enumerate) these severed connections? Nobody on either end was notified.
@trinsec @freemo @stux
QT: https://qoto.org/@trinsec/110264801634018839
Sadly no, as you've noticed even accidental suspensions cause harm to the users of both instances.
Qoto has a little workaround where you can 'keep' those connections from your end. Follow _and_ subscribe to them. If there's a brief (accidental) suspension, you're still seeing them via subscription. They won't be following you anymore, of course. But at least you could see who you're not following anymore (as the follow icon won't be colored).
I'm contemplating doing that to all I follow. :P You won't be seeing stuff double or anything that I've seen.
@peterdrake you could script it using Mastodon.py. First you’ll need an instance of the Mastodon class set up with your credentials - mine is called qoto
in the below snippet. Then loop over your followers, get each’s id, and call the following internal function (since Mastodon.py doesn’t know about QOTO’s nonstandard subscribe feature):
qoto._Mastodon__api_request('POST', f'/api/v1/accounts/{id}/subscribe').