Aral Balkan
We’re moving to a new city and the only community I can find for it is on #Facebook.
So, as much as I don’t want to, I decide to make a Facebook account again just to access this community…
(This is why communities must not be locked behind the walled gardens of surveillance capitalists. But even if we create fedi/Small Web alternatives, we still need to let the existing ones know they exist somehow.)
…Anyway, long story short, I can’t – they’ve #blacklisted my name :)
O hai, Mark! :Wiseau:
Aral Balkan
… But their name filter is diacritic-sensitive… so I give you my doppelganger, now with 50% more Frenchness…
:awesome:👍
*sigh*
PS. To pronounce my name correctly, all the vowels would have accent graves on them.
Aral Balkan
@samebchase Oh, some folks over there don’t like me too much (with good reason, mind you, and the feeling’s mutual) ;)
Samuel Chase
@aral Why would they blacklist someone who's obviously not a spammer, malicious user?
Did you use FB to criticise them?
Aral Balkan
@lesighlepurr Let’s just say there’s no love lost between me and some of the folks at Facebook ;)
lesighlepurr
@aral wtaf!?
Aral Balkan
@grob Hey, it’s their corporate space, they can do whatever they want 🤷♂️
grob 🇺🇦
@aral crappy FB move though
grob 🇺🇦
@aral lol, mon dieu
Aral Balkan
@samebchase All it takes is one pissed off engineer with the correct permissions and a database entry – it’s really not that much hassle ;)
Although there might just be a cautionary tale in this somewhere about trusting our all our public spaces to corporate entities…
(Or, in other words, about privitasing all public space so we have none left.)
Samuel Chase
@aral I'm surprised they have the time and energy to spitefully block/prevent you from using it.
Aral Balkan
@masukomi Indeed. *whew!* ;)
masukomi
@aral It's a good thing there are never two people in the world with the same family and given name.
🤦♀️
Aral Balkan
@tchauhan Yep, in a different city :)
Tushar Chauhan
@aral I thought you guys were buying !
Aral Balkan
@jernej__s Maybe, who knows :)
Jernej Simončič �
@aral What if you use Bаlkаn instead (using Cyrillic а instead of Latin a, assuming your last name is not normally written with a diactric)?
Aral Balkan
@GuillaumeL Oh, I thought it was a longer “ah” sound (which is how you pronounce all the vowels in my name… or at least how I do) :)
TechSaur G
@aral fun fact: there is actually no pronunciation difference between “a” and “à” in French (also it’s an accentuated letter we rarely use inside words) 🤫
Aral Balkan
@tchauhan Thanks 💕
Tushar Chauhan
@aral Ah gotcha. All the best ! ^_^
Aral Balkan
@GlasWolf Yeah, right? ;P
(Seriously, though, looking at the absolute crap it started throwing at “my” timeline, I have no idea how people put up with that shit. Well, I do. They don’t know better. Because all Silicon Valley has funded has been the same shit.)
Colin H.
@aral What terrible, overcomplicated onboarding - only tech nerds will use it. I'm sticking with Mastodon. 😉
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