@flaky@cleanyclothMastodon.social just hides the blocklist. In fact a lot of Mastodon instances do because instance owners got tired of the passive aggressive BS many Mastodon instances were pulling.
@Kyleric@mergerson@opal Someone should run their own fediverse instance for minorities. I mean there's a canadian fediverse instance and many country specific ones, along with community specific ones. Hosting Pleroma on anything is cheap too.
@BobCollins@mattblaze@Shatter242 It's a little different in the sense that they do it after you make one instance owner/user angry, as opposed to preemptively adding you to a list.
But there's two signs of this; you won't see posts on remote instances you make and you will find yourself staring at the "request sent" screen if you follow users. Some instances like FSE (funny because the name is a joke) prefer to null route IPs instead, which leads to the funny situation where as they've null routed this instance for some reason, it's blocked my home IP address from their instance. I was never told what set him off or made him block me for any reason, maybe it was joining an instance he hated.
It's all a false sense of security since if you're trying to protect users, people on instances you've blocked can see posts that get to their instance and yell things at you without you knowing.
@BobCollins@mattblaze@Shatter242 I've got another single user instance that's 100% blackholed from fosstodon because all these instances copy off of each other without even asking the instance admins and it's listed on defcon.social for sure.
@BobCollins@Shatter242@mattblaze Unfortunately your instance is blocking many instances, and in fact is not even disclosing their full blocklist. Thankfully because the fediverse is decentralized, it's not the end of the world or the platform.
You can fight this mindset by hosting your own instance on a cheap VPS, or if you're really cheap that old Core 2 Duo PC you have lying around in the closet (if you don't have one, you can find them at any thrift store for under $20 once in a while or a tech recycler). https://docs.pleroma.social/ https://docs.pleroma.social/backend/installation/otp_en/
@akselmo You're not using the fedi unless you have 3-4 accounts to reply to posts and abuse the "external link" because your instance owners are jannies and blocked other instances.
@a7@kitpickles So on Mastodon, to view external links you click the date/time stamp of the post. Try it now. You will then be teleported to the remote instance to see users and replies you're missing.
@a7@kitpickles One of the most important things to note on the fediverse is to always click on view external link on posts, especially as your instance might be/likely can be censoring others due to blocklists the admin put on (that are out of your control completely unless you use another instance). Or if you have a smaller/single user instance, you will find it very hard to keep up with threads/see nice posts as your instance is unaware of them
Case in point if you click A7's post and view the external link you'll see replies you didn't know about.
@alex Why not deep lore that I only read about while making the posts for my one blog. Pawoo, that jester larper/bootlicker creating a instance that's siloed off, the GNU Social and Mastodon flamewar mixed in with Quitter being essentially GNU Social's Soapbox-FE, and whatnot.
Of course that time period also was when the fediverse had a really bad reputation. Dabbling in the fedi at that time was like those guys I know who dabbled in bitcoin and wished they saved it back in the day, except there's no money lost, just wishing I had different friends.