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   Lynn I 🗽 (lynnskyi@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Sep-2024 15:33:39 JST Lynn I 🗽

   Tech can be weird sometimes. An instance i follow here was showing me almost nothing for quite a while, and now I'm seeing its posts, suddenly. Glad of it, I just don't get why now.

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     BeAware :fediverse: (beaware@social.beaware.live)'s status on Thursday, 19-Sep-2024 15:33:38 JST BeAware :fediverse:

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     @lynnskyi an entire instance?🤔

     That could be for a number of reasons.

     They could have completely blocked Mastodon.social until now.

     Also if you didn't follow a user's account on that instance, their posts won't be pulled unless someone else on your follows them.

     Fediverse works by follow relationships.

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     BeAware :fediverse: (beaware@social.beaware.live)'s status on Thursday, 19-Sep-2024 15:40:17 JST BeAware :fediverse:

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     @lynnskyi I was thinking they blocked mastodon.social until now

     Mastodon.social is a pretty controversial instance.

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     Lynn I 🗽 (lynnskyi@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Sep-2024 15:40:18 JST Lynn I 🗽

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     @BeAware I follow a few people on the instance. I don't think Mastodon Social blocked it because it's noncontroversial, so who knows. some instances require you to have an account there before you can see the content, so at first I thought that was it, but obviously not so.

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     BeAware :fediverse: (beaware@social.beaware.live)'s status on Thursday, 19-Sep-2024 15:43:11 JST BeAware :fediverse:

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     @lynnskyi since it has 2 million users, moderation is just not great.

     There's bad stuff from new accounts every day and it takes time for them to go away.🤷♂️

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     Lynn I 🗽 (lynnskyi@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Sep-2024 15:43:12 JST Lynn I 🗽

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     • BeAware :fediverse:

     @BeAware Is it? Hmm! I don't really look at the local timeline here, so I would be the last to know.

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     BeAware :fediverse: (beaware@social.beaware.live)'s status on Thursday, 19-Sep-2024 15:47:46 JST BeAware :fediverse:

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     @lynnskyi it may work well for you. It's just that a lot of other instances block it for that reason.

     But you might not even notice because you wont see them. Your mileage may vary.

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     Lynn I 🗽 (lynnskyi@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Sep-2024 15:47:47 JST Lynn I 🗽

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     @BeAware Oh, that makes sense. I've been on a few instances, and so I decided I'd like to be on a more general instance, one not mostly blindness or disability oriented. I just figured Mastodon Social, being the flagship instance, would be a good choice. I wasn't even thinking about moderation.

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     BeAware :fediverse: (beaware@social.beaware.live)'s status on Thursday, 19-Sep-2024 15:48:47 JST BeAware :fediverse:

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     @lynnskyi and I just used the word "see" and your blind.

     I'm bad at these things. Lol sorry.

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     BeAware :fediverse: (beaware@social.beaware.live)'s status on Thursday, 19-Sep-2024 15:51:15 JST BeAware :fediverse:

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     @lynnskyi they aren't owned by Mastodon Gmbh (the company) so they get way less users.

     I'd say Mastodon.world and mstdn.social are good alternatives, but I'm not 100% sure.

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     Lynn I 🗽 (lynnskyi@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Sep-2024 15:51:16 JST Lynn I 🗽

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     @BeAware Hmm! Mostly I use lists, so yeah I probably wouldn't know. I suppose the same happens with Mastodon World and some others too?

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     Lynn I 🗽 (lynnskyi@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Sep-2024 15:54:10 JST Lynn I 🗽

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     @BeAware Okay! That's good to know. I know, at least when I was searching for a good general instance, Mastodon World wasn't accepting any new users. I also wish instances would display their character limit. That would be very helpful.

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     BeAware :fediverse: (beaware@social.beaware.live)'s status on Thursday, 19-Sep-2024 15:54:44 JST BeAware :fediverse:

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     @lynnskyi I agree regarding the character limit and any other info that makes them different from other instances.

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     Lynn I 🗽 (lynnskyi@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Sep-2024 15:57:19 JST Lynn I 🗽

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     @BeAware I don't need millions of characters, but 500 is too few when posting about books, as I so often do. And I don't have the technical skills to host my own instance.

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     BeAware :fediverse: (beaware@social.beaware.live)'s status on Thursday, 19-Sep-2024 15:58:43 JST BeAware :fediverse:

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     @lynnskyi well, maybe you will get some recommendations. I don't browse instances because I am one of those nerds with their own instance.

     I do hope you eventually find a good place for you though. It's hard sometimes, I know.

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     BeAware :fediverse: (beaware@social.beaware.live)'s status on Thursday, 19-Sep-2024 16:10:29 JST BeAware :fediverse:

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     @lynnskyi I bet that's annoying. Though, being they're owned by the company, I'd hope it wouldn't be down for very long.

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     Lynn I 🗽 (lynnskyi@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Sep-2024 16:10:30 JST Lynn I 🗽

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     @BeAware Good for you. I'm okay here. The only thing that bugs me is that when the instance is down for software updates, they don't seem to announce it.

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     Lynn I 🗽 (lynnskyi@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Sep-2024 16:17:50 JST Lynn I 🗽

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     @BeAware They haven't been down for too long, but it leaves me wondering, when this happens, if I have no Internet, or if my Mastodon client, Mona, is down or what. It's just confusing.

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     BeAware :fediverse: (beaware@social.beaware.live)'s status on Thursday, 19-Sep-2024 16:17:50 JST BeAware :fediverse:

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     @lynnskyi oh yeah. I have this sort of learned behavior that when I notice something not working, I immediately go to Google.

     Google doesn't go down very often, so its usually a pretty easy giveaway.

     Though, a notice from the admins would be quite nice.

     I feel like it's an unfortunate example of the instance being "too big to care", if that makes sense.

     Like they're inconveniencing a few hundred thousand at the same time, so they have this dumb thought of "they can't all possibly complain if everyone was having the same issue."

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     Lynn I 🗽 (lynnskyi@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Sep-2024 16:19:50 JST Lynn I 🗽

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     @BeAware All they'd have to do is have an annoucement account. Problem solved.