Mastodawn

David Revoy Jun 20, 2023

Yesterday, users of mstdn.social instance lost their connections to artists at mastodon.art instance ( src: https://framapiaf.org/@Curator@mastodon.art/110570978375947500 ). I hope giving visibility to this issue will help them to restore the broken bridges.

Mastodon•ART 🎨 Curator (@[email protected])

We're no longer blocked by mstdn.social, but I don't know if that's subject to change. Unfortunately, when an instance suspends another instance, all follow/follower relationships are immediately broken and aren't recovered by un-suspending, so you will have to find and re-follow your connections there.

Mastodon.ART

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Tonya Canning Jun 20, 2023

@davidrevoy I'm on mstdn.social and my follow list is still full of people from mastodon.art. Their profiles wouldn't display during the brief period the server was blocked, but there wasn't a permanent severed connection that I can see.

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Heather Drake (she/her)Jun 20, 2023

@TonyaCanning This was my experience, too. I'm still getting posts and boosts from at least a few mastodon.art folks that I followed before the suspension, although it doesn't look like they are following me any longer...

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fedi

Jun 20, 2023

@htdrake @TonyaCanning
The account @[email protected] is blocked here on https://masto.ai (which has the same admin as mstdn.social, Stux)

I suspect it is also blocked on your instance?

It has as far as I remember 60,000? followers.

It is one of the best and most influential accounts on the fediverse, imo.

The defederation was a unilateral decision by Stux and has resulted in numerous lost connections.

Mastodon

A general Mastodon server for all languages.

Mastodon hosted on masto.ai

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Heather Drake (she/her)Jun 20, 2023

@fedi @TonyaCanning I wondered if the suspension was so short-lived that perhaps not all the follow connections in whatever database tracks them were removed on our instances' sides.

Aside from this one event, I've found Stux to be a very reasonable admin. He's built up a lot of trust in my "trust bank" and has earned the right to learn from this mistake and do better in future.

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Tonya Canning

@htdrake @fedi
I've felt the same way. Even with the Meta thing. I think Facebook are appalling, but I can understand feeling it's more in line with consistent moderation to not pre-emptively block ab instance for things you assume they'll do.