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.
@peterdrake I did it manually. But the way I did it was going to my profile, click on 'Following', and then just click on the subscribe buttons of everyone in that list down there (except those on Qoto, I skip those as that's not necessary, unless Freemo manages to fuck up something royally with this codebase. :D)
@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):