🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)Don't mind me; I'm just going to lie here and die of preventable causes, because the alternative requires making a phone call.
Dan Ballard@alice extrovert with phone use abilities maybe should start advertising phone-as-a-service to their friend circles
Florian 'floe' Echtler
Dave AlvaradoWhat @floe said.
@floe @dan_ballard @alice I still see the full chain back to Alice. I'm guessing either somebody in the chain blocked you, your instance blocked their instance (or vice-versa) or something has gone wonky with federation on your instance or their instance.
The two instances above you in the chain are kolektiva.social and lgbtqia.space. My money is on your instance blocking kolektiva.
https://tweaking.thebad.space/location/7d62a8a3-6742-4136-93c0-432269a81a51
@dave @floe @alice oh thanks for the link, i know there's a few different collaborative block (or mute) list tools, i... may have heard of this one before? but didn't remember, and wow it's big now, and yep, there's the instance i'm on with a rating of 62%, 2 silenced, 3 suspended. 🤷 prolly not unreasonably, it's big, and it would not surprise me at all given its particular focus that it's moderation on some topics leaves something to be desired. Thanks for the heads up, I'll have to think about this if it's worth attempting to look for a new home, or just live with it. Kinda a good but hard thing is the fediverse will always be fractured, just gotta figure out which circles you want to be in, can live with or with out, and also which ones you very much want to be outside :)
@dan_ballard @floe @alice I ended up spinning up my own instance through masto.host to avoid this sort of situation. My single-user instance lives or dies by my own behavior, which I think is the best way to fedi.
@dave @floe @alice awesome, i wish more people would, but I also have complexer feelings as I age about when and what to self host. Having run email for like 15 years before giving up, and dabbling with matrix and self hosting as my first federation experience and watching that explode catastrophically after 2 years and an update, for now mastodon for me falls in the "let someone else host it" which is some thing I'd like to see it get easier to do so maybe my personal math on it changes! More folks doing it is good and will prolly help that. Mind if I ask which stack you run? like official mastodon? or goto.social or one of the other small single host options?
@dan_ballard @floe @alice I use masto.host, they do all the hosting. I pay $9/mo for the hosting and another $20/yr for the alvarado.social domain and it's hands-off. They've had one outage in the last 2 years where I was unlucky and on the last database to be recovered, so my Mastodon was down for a day. Their customer support was awesome and communicative through the whole thing.
Highly, highly recommended.
J4ck@dan_ballard
wait... so like, I can email someone with the details and they...would call on my behalf?!
Why are we not funding this?!
Humphrey Archer@jackryder
A ton of chronic disease communities do this
Some people in the group have more experience or spoons for phoning providers, and they act as collectives.
Lou 🏳️⚧️@screwturn
Meanwhile, my contrarian mind made me call the one that then became my GP to get HRT because a friend offered to call in my stead when I hadn't done so after a few weeks 😅
Maybe that's the trick for me: I need someone that could realistically do it to offer to call for me 🤔
Emily_S@dan_ballard @alice but we'd have to contact them first and that's just another level of recursion to the problem.
eestileib (she/hers)Oh I could easily make a phone call to argue about my*friend's* insurance claim, that's not what we're talking about though. 😄
@eestileib @alice phone call swap sharing service?
Court Cantrell does not comply@dan_ballard @alice YES PLEASE!!!
Fissile@dan_ballard @alice The worst thing about phone calls is, that it is often so much easier to solve problems on the phone, compared to exchanging emails. In the sense that a conversation via phone is so so much faster, especially if you have to explain something to the other person.