Note to hachyderm.io users, who can't see this on their server (which I'm mentioning because another one just asked me about it):

the hachyderm admins blocked me personally - if you try to follow me from hachyderm, it lies and tells you this account is "suspended" - and i still have no idea why

coincidentally Nivenly, the company running hachyderm, got into an AI grift and I loudly called it an AI grift. This suggests the reasons are simple and commercial.

they have apparently denied that their AI grift was the reason but haven't said what the reason was

and they haven't contacted me at all and certainly nobody is paying me enough to bother to contact these weirdos

it's a mastodon feature: forum admins with poster's madness

so basically find a non-shitty server or spin up an akkoma yourself

feel free to copy and forward this as appropriate

edit: there was apparently a bug raised, and i'm definitely not wasting my time attempting communication with these circumlocutious scammy sounding weirdos. Perhaps you will wish to. https://github.com/hachyderm/community/issues/579

edit 2: it's their feudal pissheap and they're allowed not to like me! that they lie that my account is "suspended" and go into sub-GPT blathering when asked why is, I submit, a good reason to reevaluate hitching your wagon to their hungover seaside donkey

@[email protected] shows "account suspended" from hachyderm.io · Issue #579 · hachyderm/community

What would you like to discuss with us or let us know? I have been following David Gerard's written work regarding cryptocurrency and AI hype in addition to other rot-economu issues for some time. ...

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@davidgerard Details, please. What's the grift, and does it affect the users of the instance or other instances?
@not2b Nivenly, who run hachyderm
@davidgerard I thought they had a vote and didn't accept the AI Horde. Is there something else still going on?
Haidra Joins the Nivenly Foundation

Welcoming the Haidra project to the Nivenly Foundation!

@chx @davidgerard Yes, I saw that. But as far as I can tell, they are out of the generative AI racket now, so I don't see why they should be boycotted for a past mistake.

@not2b @chx is this some sort of DARVO on the Fediverse

like, you do what the fuck you like, this post is an explanatory message to my friends why they can't see my posts. you're some random guy kramering into my mentions.

@davidgerard @not2b not sure who are you angry at , as for myself, I moved from hachyderm to my own instance because of this case...