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?

Show threadBernard Tyers

@MM0INH As I understand it yes - InstanceA blocks InstanceB, then A will not see any updates from any account on B.

In any way, via any timeline.

Dec 19, 2022 at 6:26pmWeb
Show threadBernard TyersDec 19, 2022

@MM0INH where did the screenshot come from?

Is that the response from admin of InstanceA?

In which case, it seems their decision was more to affect InstanceB's admins, and the reach of their Instance, as opposed to any activity of InstanceB's user base.

Which seems misdirected and unfortunate.

Show threadwgoodf-Dec 19, 2022
@bernat Well indeed. A gross overreaction.