There is a lot of back history involved. Some admins don't like the terms of service used at Qoto -- **specifically some quite Libertarian statements** on it which I personally have made motions to change.
In some other cases it's because this instance did not block some other instance which they found deplorable and a nest of iniquity, etc.
I have been out in Diplomatic missions in the past, but not much resulted -- other than me sending detailed correspondence and sometimes being :
* told to not contact them again.
* or losing my local account at that instance for the attempt.
* or simply getting a polite rebuff on the attempt, which appears the most positive result.
#QOTO is **perceived negatively in some quarters** - and that has implications on **who sees your posts here as well**.
See these two blog posts for detailed info on some of my past attempts :
https://write.tedomum.net/rgx/when-you-discover-your-instance-is-blocked
https://write.tedomum.net/rgx/todon-nl-admin-reacts-to-polite-inquiries
>todon dot nl
Wait a minute! Why are you communicating with that user on gameliberty? It’s clearly a rightwinger or even alt-right.
>2 days later
Your account has been suspended and all of your toots and your uploaded media files have been irreversibly removed from this server and servers where you had followers.
They… that… they didn’t just delete his account. They impersonated him, spamming other instances with fake Delete messages, to trick them into helping retroactively censor him, regardless of their ToSes. Because he may have spoken with someone who was likely to be a wingnut.
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THIS IS WHY WE SHOULD BE USING PUBLIC KEYS JESUS CHRIST
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@cy
Yup there is a reason we dont cave to their insanity. We do what is right in terms of server policy not what a few radicalized servers demand we do.
@design_RG @olamundo
@cy
Agreed, im all for personal control of our identity and keys
@design_RG @olamundo
@freemo @design_RG @olamundo Mostly I just wish people used public keys. Because we require a digital signature from the instance, not the user, it lets instances use their users as unwilling weapons to sabatoge other instances. I never thought I’d see it being done under benevolent pretenses, but here we are.
Maybe I should make a list of safe instances for people to join too…