ArakinNov 20, 2022
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)
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 threadArakin
@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 :)
Nov 20, 2022 at 3:33pmWeb
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...