yeah uh what the fuck is this (got a follow request)

what list? a hit list? am I in danger? /j
yeah I have no connections to transfem.social so down the blocklist it goes
oh fuck I do, time to invoke diplomacy :/

@admin what is this and why is your instance doing the same stalker-vibey “someone from our instance wants to follow you but we use this proxy so we won’t tell who :3” that some other pretty gnarly instances do
@sam @[email protected] This is a misskey feature for user lists. It respects blocks, and what it does is establish a following relation (in case the user doesn't follow the account) so posts populate the user list.
@sam @[email protected] Previously, the account was @instance.actor but I moved it to its own account.
@sam @[email protected] @instance.actor the term proxy is misleading because essentially it just wants to make sure posts are being subscribed to in order to populate a user list. Which, makes sense because we have no way of making a user's posts specific to a list. mastodon can, misskey can't. you have to unfollow the user to remove it from your home timeline and keep it in a list. if nobody follows that user well you're shit out of luck