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 the suspension thing is an annoying implementation detail of remote users as i understand it, definitely not good ux

not the first time i've seen hachyderm moderation be poor on judgement and poor on followup / communication, worrying stuff for an instance that touts itself as a "safe and inclusive space"...