Having a conversation on Blue Sky about the frustration people over there have with Mastodon.

A lot of it involves capricious defederation, where server admins, usually of smaller instances, will sever people from their friends by defederating from a server over the presence of a few trolls. And, the instability of building a network in such conditions.

One person mentioned radio silence from an admin after being unable to log in.

@alexwild It is indeed advisable to either self-host or carefully choose one of the larger instances (however, some of those are also known to be extremely restrictive) to avoid random and potentially intrusive admin decisions that may affect your use of the Fediverse.