GabeWhy can't I follow anyone from journa.host ?
Maybe I belong to one of the servers that block it? https://www.cjr.org/analysis/journalists-want-to-recreate-twitter-on-mastodon-mastodon-is-not-into-it.php
Journalists want to re-create Twitter on Mastodon. Mastodon is not into it.
<p>Ever since Elon Musk completed his $45 billion takeover of Twitter last month, there has been a steady stream of users, including a number of journalists, signing up for Mastodon, an open-source alternative. No one controls Mastodon—or rather, everyone controls their own version of it. There are thousands of servers running the software, and each […]</p>
peter hessler @openbsd@baberiel_d yes, we happily block them.
@phessler I just want to follow NPR podcasts and this guy https://journa.host/@dell
Dell Cameron (@[email protected])
117 Posts, 591 Following, 2.09K Followers · I cover surveillance & tech policy > 2022 Edward R. Murrow Award for Investigative Reporting > Writers Guild of America, East.
@baberiel_d we block the entire instance, and unable to allow single users.
Gabriel@phessler Thank you for explaining
Graham Perrin@baberiel_d @phessler so, to follow I must first create a separate account?
@grahamperrin @baberiel_d you may also want to check out https://kitty.town/@June/109372707136444226 for some of the reasons why there is a block.
Zetta (@[email protected])
journa host should now be considered an active threat. parker malloy, a brilliant trans journalist, called them out for not reaching the lowest fucking bar imaginable: allowing a transphobic user to post transphobic trash articles. she was suspended because of this, and the "mod team" is doing this VERY weird obfuscation "explanation"... the whole thing seems like fuckin trash and they ought not be trusted at all now. https://journa.host/@info/109372514074976879
@grahamperrin @phessler that post 404s
@baberiel_d @phessler https://web.archive.org/web/20221120002610/https://kitty.town/@June/109372707136444226 begins by loading the title of the captured page (Zetta: "journa host should now be considered an active th…" - Kitty.Town) then proceeds to lose the title and show none of the content that I hoped to find captured.
Is Mastodon not Wayback Machine-friendly?
Zetta (@[email protected])
journa host should now be considered an active threat. parker malloy, a brilliant trans journalist, called them out for not reaching the lowest fucking bar imaginable: allowing a transphobic user to post transphobic trash articles. she was suspended because of this, and the "mod team" is doing this VERY weird obfuscation "explanation"... the whole thing seems like fuckin trash and they ought not be trusted at all now. https://journa.host/@info/109372514074976879
@grahamperrin @baberiel_d no, we want to always be in control of the visibility of our toots.