HEY HEY FRENZ on mastodon.social! You may want to MOVE to a new instance, very soon.

Why?  

Mastodon is a bunch of islands that can talk to each other. The smaller and more spread out we are, the easier things are to moderate. Horizontal scaling FTW!

All of you who fled that one site 🐤 ended up at mastodon.social for likely a few reasons. It was obvious, it was big, and it's where you saw a bunch of folks going.

But it has a long history of being poorly moderated, which means a LOT of instances are silencing or blocking it. Which means you're on the big island that SEEMS like it's "where everyone is", but in fact, it's a giant island unto itself (momentarily trending toward turning into a post-bird-site echo chamber), and huge swaths of the Fediverse don't talk to it, or even see it.

If you want the quality of interaction (and moderation!) Mastodon is known for, move thy funky buns to a smaller instance of cool folks you enjoy. 

#feditips #fediverse

@hollie
hmm. how can I find out which instances are blocking which other instances?

and can I move followers/following to a new instance automatically? I tried one method I thought was supposed to do that and it, er, didn't,

Thanks to anyone who can answer this!

@DavidFutrelle @hollie I don't know that there is a comprehensive database of this.

One of the reasons I have stayed with the instance I am on is that our admin lists the instances that are blocked from ours, along with the reason why on the about page. It is under the heading "Moderated Servers". They are all reasons that I support, and I appreciate the transparency.

I think many do the same, so you can probably get a bit of an idea by checking out the about pages for different instances.

@dee_in_calgary @DavidFutrelle @hollie A side note to the list of moderated servers:

It's only displayed unless admins set this display to inactive (which is technically possible).