Now suddenly it looks like I *can* follow people on mastodon.art. Does that mean they're now federating with #qoto? @freemo @trinsec @FediFollows
@peterdrake @freemo @FediFollows Caching. Refresh your browser. Bet it's on pending again.
@trinsec @freemo @FediFollows Bummer.
Not to look a gift social media network in the mouth, but that's some bad UI. I could easily:
1) Think I've followed someone,
2) Cancel the seemingly no-longer-necessary "subscription" to that person, and then
3) Never be able to find them again, because they're not in my list of followers or in my feed.
@peterdrake apparently this is by design - there is a school of thought within Mastodon that someone shouldn't know that he's blocked, because it's desirable for him to spend his time fruitlessly trying to fix what appears to be a network problem, as a sort of tar-pit approach to wasting bad actors' resources. A more transparent behaviour was [implemented](https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/10420), but rolled back after objections. I suppose we could implement such a notification on QOTO's local fork, as long as we stay responsible about getting rid of people who engage in block circumvention.
@freemo @trinsec