Arakin
Last Boost: Pretty frustrating to have to be looking at shifting to another instance just to avoid being blocked-by-association.
Thanks to @SlyCat for the invite, I'm likely to be moving to meow myself to try and avoid this, but I worry that this may happen again there and my social graph will be at the whim of admins (and maybe this opens an avenue for trolls to target an instance to harm the users there)
Nov 20, 2022 at 3:25pmWeb
Show threadGravecat Nov 20, 2022
@arakin @SlyCat It's always a risk, but realistically I think it's mostly only an issue with the mega-instances (particularly masto social) that have just no real moderation at all.
Show threadArakinNov 20, 2022
@gc I wonder if there's scope in future for untrusted instances to have default restrictions on visibility and follow-requests, whilst still allowing organic following to function
Show threadGravecat Nov 20, 2022

@arakin I always thought that was kinda the entire point of limited (rather than suspended) servers -- largely disconnecting, while still allowing people to follow if they want (e.g. meow.social has mastodon.social limited, but as you can see, we can still interact).

Jumping straight to suspended always seemed a bit overkill to me for anything but the worst of the scummy alt-right servers, but hey, it's still a step up from the whitelist-only walled garden we used to have in the furry servers.

Show threadCinnamon VectorNov 20, 2022
@arakin @SlyCat And this is why I stopped using Mastodon in the first place. Instances blocking each other, vanishing. Just makes the whole thing a farce
Show threadArakinNov 20, 2022
@cinnamonvector In fairness I'm not sure if I know anyone on the instance in question (it was boosted by a friend) - but it was something I'd seen others talk about, especially with this instance. At least migration is easy :)
Show threadCinnamon VectorNov 20, 2022
@arakin I don't even know what the impact of that is. Does that mean anyone on the small instance can't see or follow anything from the bigger one or does it just mean they're removed from the federated timeline? I STILL don't understand how this all works
Show threadRickNov 20, 2022
@arakin While the transfer mechanism seems to trigger "Follow" actions, their completion seems to be subject to server settings somewhere. You may find you have a whole bunch of automatically generated requests to approve...