Bleh. Just saw a friend who found out they couldn’t be followed by one of their friends because (unbeknownst to both parties) the moderators of their friend’s instance had defederated from their own instance. All of this, for people who barely know what any of these terms mean. What they experience is, “Two people you’ve never met have a beef you’ve never heard about over an issue you don’t know about, so your friend can’t see you. And there’s no fix.” It’s just terrible all around.
@anildash More self-hosted instances, please. More techie friends hosting for their less-techie friends, please. More local communities, please.
@skippy @anildash I aspire to self-host one day!
@rbellinger @anildash GoToSocial is wonderful. SQLite database file, single executable binary, low resource consumption and extremely reliable. You can deploy it easily to fly.io or on a cloud VPS or on your own computer somewhere. Highly recommended.
@skippy @anildash thanks for the tip!