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   Justine Smithies (justine@snac.smithies.me.uk)'s status on Sunday, 10-Nov-2024 06:32:04 JST Justine Smithies
   Since moving to #FreeBSD I've noticed quite a few blocks and unfollows. I get the unfollows but blocks from folk that don't follow me and I don't follow them is strange. Anyway each to their own as they say.
   So I'm looking to follow more #BSD family to get more BSD content on my feed so if that's you come say hi and tell me what and why you run said BSD.
   Please boost for more reach and thanks in advance.
   #RunBSD
   
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     Stefano Marinelli (stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 10-Nov-2024 06:39:00 JST Stefano Marinelli

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     • The Real Grunfink
     • normis

     @justine @grunfink @normis this doesn't surprise me. I have been blocked because I write posts about the BSDs and not about their favourite OS. Snac is great as you can know who's blocking you, and the inbox collection greatly helps small instance to federate better.

     Just for fun: the BSD Cafe instances have been defederated by some because we've been accused of sectarianism...

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     Justine Smithies (justine@snac.smithies.me.uk)'s status on Sunday, 10-Nov-2024 06:39:01 JST Justine Smithies

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     • The Real Grunfink
     • normis
     Thank you though for adding these great features that will of course be useful to some folk.
     
     CC: @normis@s.dodies.lv
     
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     The Real Grunfink (grunfink@comam.es)'s status on Sunday, 10-Nov-2024 06:39:03 JST The Real Grunfink

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     • normis
     Fair enough.
     
     CC: @normis@s.dodies.lv
     
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     Justine Smithies (justine@snac.smithies.me.uk)'s status on Sunday, 10-Nov-2024 06:39:04 JST Justine Smithies

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     • The Real Grunfink
     • normis
     I don't mind seeing those notifications and it is after their prerogative to block me if they wish.
     
     CC: @normis@s.dodies.lv
     
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     The Real Grunfink (grunfink@comam.es)'s status on Sunday, 10-Nov-2024 06:39:05 JST The Real Grunfink

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     • normis
     Of course, I don't know if this is the reason for the blocks, just guessing. Also, if you don't want to know about any random moron blocking you, you can also disable the Block activity notifications by setting disable_block_notifications to true in the global server configuration.
     
     CC: @normis@s.dodies.lv
     
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     Justine Smithies (justine@snac.smithies.me.uk)'s status on Sunday, 10-Nov-2024 06:39:06 JST Justine Smithies

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     • normis
     Thank you for the information. I think i'll leave that setting as default for now as it makes sense to me. 😉
     
     CC: @normis@s.dodies.lv
     
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     The Real Grunfink (grunfink@comam.es)'s status on Sunday, 10-Nov-2024 06:39:08 JST The Real Grunfink

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     • normis
     Hi, Justine. #snac has a feature that is somewhat atypical: the inbox collection, which stores all public inboxes that crosses your instance and send all posts you generate to them, even if no specific accounts on that instance are in the 'to' list. Though it's on specification (what Mastodon calls 'federating' is very similar), some people or admins may find that posts from your instance arrives to them with no apparent reason, and may block due to ignorance and/or overzealous behaviour. You can disable this by setting the disable_inbox_colllection variable to true in you server.json config file.
     
     Also, some people looks at the 0 count of followers / followees and infer (incorrectly) that it's a new account and blindly block your account.
     
     CC: @normis@s.dodies.lv