Today on NovaLandia: "The Gates are Closing: Why Mastodon’s Flagship Instances are Hiding Their Timelines"

While checking my **Discover the Fediverse** (DiscoverFedi) app to ensure everything was running smoothly, I noticed something significant. At some point in the last couple of months—perhaps even long...

https://mkultra.monster/socialmedia/2026/02/09/mastodon-gone-invisible/

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@cmdr_nova FYI, they did publish an announcement on the official @Mastodon account a while back. Their reasoning is that because these instances are so large, they're harder to moderate, and they don't want anyone stumbling across anything nasty before the moderators get to it.
@GroupNebula563 @Mastodon That's it o_o haha breaking 3rd party tools just because they can't moderate fast enough?
@cmdr ░ nova ⸸ :~$ @Furbland's Very Cool Mastodon™ Building a tool against the Mastodon client API is pretty normal.

Building it straight against Mastodon and features exclusive to it while circumventing any and all APIs is something else.

But hard-coding a tool against one specific Mastodon server is something that nobody expects ever to happen.

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