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   Jan (jan@toot.io)'s status on Friday, 05-Apr-2024 21:02:33 JST Jan

   Threads has already blocked Mastodon instances since 21 Mar 2024 around 3 month after joining the Fediverse.

   https://help.instagram.com/914046486923176

   #mastoadmin #threads

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     Jan (jan@toot.io)'s status on Friday, 05-Apr-2024 21:34:39 JST Jan

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     • Tom :damnified:

     @thomas You can activate the debug logs and restart your instance:

     RAILS_LOG_LEVEL=debug

     Search for failed threads requests like this:

     [httplog] GET https://threads.net/ap/users/17841445266116124/ completed with status code 429 in 0.48656 seconds

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     Tom :damnified: (thomas@metalhead.club)'s status on Friday, 05-Apr-2024 21:34:41 JST Tom :damnified:

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     @jan how do I know if Threads has blocked my instance? I've tried to connect to various threads.net accounts but it's not working. My instance is not blocking threads.

     Darnell Clayton :verified: repeated this.
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     Darnell Clayton :verified: (darnell@one.darnell.one)'s status on Friday, 05-Apr-2024 21:37:12 JST Darnell Clayton :verified:

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     • Tom :damnified:

     @thomas @jan Any luck in connecting with Threads‽ That is weird as I do not see why you would be blocked. Have you tried reaching out to Meta about this‽

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     Darnell Clayton :verified: (darnell@one.darnell.one)'s status on Friday, 05-Apr-2024 21:50:08 JST Darnell Clayton :verified:

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     • Tom :damnified:

     @thomas @jan I would contact them as they usually respond (or at least react). I remember complaining about search items being censored (including the country Niger 🇳🇪 which had experienced a coup at the time) & they quickly responded by unblocking it.

     You should be able to contact them via the help page within the Threads app.

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     Tom :damnified: (thomas@metalhead.club)'s status on Friday, 05-Apr-2024 21:50:10 JST Tom :damnified:

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     • Darnell Clayton :verified:

     @darnell not yet. It's still not working, but I'll try to get in touch with them. Maybe they can check their side.

     @jan

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     Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣 (youronlyone@c.im)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 05:11:09 JST Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣

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     • Mario

     @mariob

     Not just that, it is actually “just another instance”.

     People have been blocking instances for the most ridiculous reasons, years before the “Twitter Migration” and Threads announcement. This Threads/Meta thing just got overblown because, “Meta/Facebook/Zuck”.

     Instances, be it xyz, abc, mno, threads, tumblr, wordpress, whoever, can freely block whichever instance they want, for whatever reason they want. Their instance, their decision. It has always been that way since instance-blocking first appeared in fediverse software (which was years before Mastodon came into existence, AFAIK).

     @jan

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     Mario (mariob@liberdon.com)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 05:11:15 JST Mario

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     @jan but isn't this a two way sword? Threads itself has been blocked widely in the fediverse.

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     Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣 (youronlyone@c.im)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 05:13:37 JST Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣

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     • John Clinton Bradley

     @johnclint Maybe, maybe not. Sometimes a server and/or the software/platform your instance is using, have issues finding certain instances even if they haven't blocked each other.

     There have been cases I had to communicate with different instances to fix their interoperability with each other, and often than not, it was because one or both instances have a server-backend-related configuration causing it, and has nothing to do with “blocks”.

     @jan

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     John Clinton Bradley (johnclint@episcodon.net)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 05:13:38 JST John Clinton Bradley

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     @jan Is this maybe why I cannot find my Threads profile on Mastodon or my Mastodon profile on Threads?

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     Darnell Clayton :verified: (darnell@one.darnell.one)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 05:22:05 JST Darnell Clayton :verified:

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     • Tom :damnified:

     @thomas @jan Hmm…yeah, I just realized it is hard to contact Meta via email or phone call, as they insist on people creating an account (unless you are contacting their legal department for obvious reasons).

     What happens when you try to follow an account like @potus or @whitehouse (those accounts are federating)‽

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     Tom :damnified: (thomas@metalhead.club)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 05:22:06 JST Tom :damnified:

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     • Darnell Clayton :verified:

     @darnell will I be able to contact them even without a Facebook / Meta / Threads account? I don't have (and want) any if those ;)

     @jan

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     Darnell Clayton :verified: (darnell@one.darnell.one)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 05:42:43 JST Darnell Clayton :verified:

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     • Tom :damnified:

     @jan @thomas Hmmm….okay, two quick questions:

     ☝🏾 Is Toot (https://toot.io) being blocked by #Threads (https://threads.net)‽

     ✌🏾 Does Metalhead (https://metalhead.club) use Toot’s managed hosting service‽ https://toot.io/mastodon_hosting.html

     If the answer to both is “yes,” then I might have a theory as to why Meta is blocking both sites.

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     Jan (jan@toot.io)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 05:42:45 JST Jan

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     • Tom :damnified:

     @darnell @thomas You can't retrieve the ActivityPub actor when threads blocks your domain/IP.

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     Darnell Clayton :verified: (darnell@one.darnell.one)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 06:53:14 JST Darnell Clayton :verified:

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     • Tom :damnified:

     @jan @thomas Oh okay. I suspect the reason Threads is blocking Toot.io is due to one or several of the customers utilizing your services.

     However Metalhead’s blockage is a mystery.

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     Jan (jan@toot.io)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 06:53:15 JST Jan

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     • Tom :damnified:

     @darnell @thomas

     Yes the toot.io instance is blocked by threads, maybe because our public timeline was private.

     No, Metalhead is not using our Mastodon hosting service.

     According to the threads server guidelines it depends on the admin/moderators and how they run the instance.

     We, as a hosting provider, just running the infrastructure, not managing the content or policies of each Mastodon instance.

     https://help.instagram.com/914046486923176