Randahl FinkJul 18

Yesterday was my first bad day on Mastodon, and what happened to me could happen to you, so let me explain what went down, and how I got blocked by a lot of people.

In March, I wrote a post critical of Musk (picture 1). I then asked another Mastodon user (Harriett) whom I have found friendly, if she would help me translate a Danish phrase to English, and linked to the Musk post where the phrase would be relevant.

But yesterday — 4 months later — that blew up in my face. Here is how…

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Show threadRandahl FinkJul 18

You see, yesterday someone discovered that my old post requesting translation help had been mirrored onto Bluesky by the so-called bridge system. And that system had made the VERY unfortunate error of removing my link to the context about Elon Musk, and instead now linked to Harriett's profile page.

So it now looked as if I was not talking about Elon Musk, but talking about Harriett (see picture) — as if I was making fun of this Mastodon user behind her back on Bluesky.

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Show threadMvRiederbergJul 18
@randahl I think, this bridging is sinply bullshit.
Show thread𝗣𝗠𝗝 👽

@mavori

yeah, don't use it
there were other concerns about it (which i can't remember, something about security)
i always have both tabs opened side by side and do manual copy-paste
@randahl

Jul 18 at 8:48amWeb
Show threadItsDoctorNotMrs6d ago

@pmj @mavori @randahl

Agreed, I don't use it and don't open posts that feature it.

Sorry to hear this happened to you, Randall. It sounds miserable for all concerned.