* When you discover your Instance is blocked. *
After creating a new blog post, I prepare text for announcing it. This is posted at my main instance, and later I visit other accounts, search for that Status URL, and boost it from there.
In one case, I could not find the status on that normal search. Odd. What is going on?
A search for my user profile at Qoto did not bring ANY results either. It dawned on me that something was amiss...
On today's web magazine, live at : https://write.tedomum.net/rgx/when-you-discover-your-instance-is-blocked
@design_RG This is actually why I switched to qoto.org. They seem to want to defederate from anyone who doesn't believe in defederating from gab et al.
It's a bit sad and honestly one of the most offputting parts of the fediverse for me.
@design_RG See this thread: https://mastodon.technology/@pganssle/103199195138668923
It seems unlikely we'll be unblocked.
@design_RG Thanks for working on this! Sorry that it doesn't seem to have had a happier ending (though there's always hope)!
@pganssle Thank you Paul for your reply and the link, I will be checking it.
Since I had taken the time to prepare a very formal letter, and thought this is an important issue, I prepared a blog post too, with the full letter plus supporting reasoning and links.
When I finished and was just starting to announce the blog, I received a reply from Mr Furrow, very prompt and corteous too. It confirmed the reason for our black listing being exactly the fact we don't block ceartain instances that M.T. prefers no relations with.
Agreed, it's unlikely this will be lifted, as you mentioned.