Anyone know anything about counter.social?

Big picture: is banning entire country IP blocks a good approach to moderation?

Small picture: I keep getting a 500 Internal Server Error when I try to DM my friend there.

@walker I get a 500 trying to follow [email protected] as well - probably related to whatever "hardening" modifications he made to his instance, if I had to guess
@walker hell, I even had to remove the @ from the beginning of jester's handle just to get my toot about it to send - even doing an account mention gives a 500
@djsundog @walker That should be filed as a bug: invalid user handles should not affect the ability to post a toot
@duck57 @djsundog I believe that my toot posted anyway, despite the error, but that the mentioned username did not become a link and did not presumably reach that user. It could be tested further.

@walker @duck57 @djsundog

Did you guys end up figuring out the issue with @counter.social? I originally wanted to use @counter.social as my main instance, but if people from other instances can't add, or even find, me...

@vishae @duck57 @djsundog I stopped trying to figure it out and haven’t tested it in a while. I think it’s intentional?