Stonekettle with his 250k followers claims he was told he was "unwelcome" on Mastodon.

Someone want to tell me why?

Is it because he has so many followers?

@LillyHerself Just a guess? From his 2018 twitter feed.

"My name is Jim Wright, I'm retired US Military intelligence officer and nowadays a professional political writer -- as most of my readers know.

There's no link in my profile because I got tired of death threats and lunatics following me home."

It has been my experience that anyone involved with the US government, particularly law enforcement or intelligence services gets a shit-ton of hate on most mastodon instances.

@LillyHerself I should also note, that observation is just what I've seen, not an endorsement or criticism.
@gedvondur He is extremely anti-Trump and writes political commentary from a left-wing perspective. But he has one of those ironic senses of humour, which causes misunderstandings.
This is no big deal for me, I haven't followed him for some time, but that tweet was RT'd by someone who is promoting BlueSky over Masto, as a kind of "proof" of how bad Masto is.
*That* is what bothers me.