Anil DashDec 8
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.
Show threadizzy :: izjustpixels ✨Dec 8

@anildash I ran into a similar issue when I migrated this account away from mastodon.art, ironically because that instance kept severing ties with other instances.

I knew where I wanted to migrate to... And then noticed that that was one of the instances that mastodon.art had cut off.

So I couldn't migrate my followers, or even boost old posts from the to-be-retired account, or tag my old account.

Hugely annoying. Love decentralization, but this needs to be figured out in some form or fashion.

Show threadDavid Fleetwood - RG AdminDec 8

@izjustpixels @anildash She's a real piece of work, a white woman who went colonial to South Africa, and aggressively tone polices the oppressed.

Her instance is a massive problem due to how she runs it, lots of people join due to the name without realizing she's blocked a huge chunk of the fediverse.

Show threadizzy :: izjustpixels ✨Dec 8

@reflex @anildash Yup. When I signed up on that instance it was because I'd seen a bunch of great artists on there, and it seemed like the instance was quite active.

The rest of it I learned about later... and then triggered the account migration. Which ended up not really being a "migration" as much as a "fresh start", due to the aforementioned issues. 😖

Show threadDavid Fleetwood - RG Admin
@izjustpixels @anildash It's very unfortunate and that instance has led to a lot of the bad taste former fedi members have, imo.
Dec 8 at 11:26pmWeb