Mastodawn

wgoodf-Dec 19, 2022

So... a person is booted from mastodon.social.

The admin of, in this case scholar.social disagrees with that decision and blocks mastodon.social - the whole instance.

So.. and this is the bit i am struggling to understand- does that mean all mastodon.social accounts can no longer be seen by scholar.social accounts.. is that right?

To block the instance means that every account vanishes to every member from the blocking instance?

A collective punishment?

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PC1I Dec 19, 2022

@MM0INH

Sort off... It seems to me the admin of scholar.social has banned mastodon.world (not mastodon.social) as the admin of that instance banned a user. One admin is "punishing" other admins by blocking their instance? I guess effect will be both instances can not see eachother.

Collective punishment to let the other admins rethink their decision?

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PC1I

@MM0INH Just checked the fediblock tag and it seems normally to be used to block instances that promote "The wrong side". Even warnings with existing lists that give false info...