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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:
https://cloudisland.nz/@aurynn/109361052656757061
https://cloudisland.nz/@aurynn/109361011483467968
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 Yeah. On the other hand, even defederating based on lies is a kind of de-escalation; will tend to result in less interactions, but the interactions avoided will be disproportionately harmful interactions.
@radehi I dont mind instances that might suspend us just because they dont like our "style" or anything else that is based on reality... whats so frustrating is the outright lies and misinformation that leads to many people blocking without bothering to fact check.