@carlux I have no way to check that, unfortunately
@smaurizi There is a way if you receive an email everytime someone follows you. You can compare those emails with your follower list. Of course, it's manual and time-consuming, but there it is.
Anyway, it probably has to do with instances that defederated with mastodon.social due to the Threads controversy.
@josemanuel @smaurizi @carlux This is very disappointing. I too noticed this. Many instances seem to have defederated us :(
@lohang This reminds me of a joke: an ant is watching a movie when an elephant enters the theatre and sits right in front of the ant. The ant, of course, can no longer see the movie, and so gets up and sits in front of the elephant, looks back and says: “Isn't it annoying when someone does it _to you_?”
It's funnier in Spanish, but anyway. That's what this situation looks like to me.
Platform A cannot talk to platform B, B doesn't federate with C, and *sometimes* C and D can talk to each other, but not not always. B can see posts published on A, but A doesn't receive replies sent from B
@lohang So true. When someone says the Fediverse today is like the Internet before social media, I immediately know that person was not there.
I was thinking about that the other day. Back then it felt like actually connecting with people. I remember making real friends and forming real relationships. Now it's like we're talking to each other through an invisible wall of distrust. I find myself carefully choosing the words I say and the opinions I share. It's sad.
@josemanuel @smaurizi @carlux I am not a newcomer to the fediverse. I created my first account in 2008 on identica. But things have never been this confusing and decimated.
At this point I use 4 fediverse accounts on 4 different platforms to be able to stay in touch with my contacts (people I know and people I would like to connect up with).