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An important lesson for new fedi users (
) : If it looks like an account blocked you because you can't see their posts but you can't think of a reason they blocked you (e.g. you've never interacted with them, or if you have it was cordial): it may be that the admins of their instance has defederated with yours.
That's not blocking you personally; it's an administrative decision that usually comes from conflict or poor moderation by the other user's instance. Instances that tolerate abusive behaviour from users might be defederated because their actions conflict with the rules and principles of the admins of other instances. Admins can block specific users as well, but defederating is often a wiser choice. There are a ton of absolutely toxic/hateful instances created to harass people, and if you haven't seen them that's because they've been rightfully blocked this way.
A lot of different things can lead to this that the individual users aren't aware of or responsible for. It could be an admin behaving like an asshole. It could be questionable admin choices related to security. It could be that the instance is harbouring abusive users. This could happen in either direction—the other user's instance might have been blocked by your instance's admins, or your instance might be the one higher blocked by theirs. It's worth looking into. Some instances list the ones they've defederated in a section on their main page, and there may be a reason listed as well.
If you find that there are some accounts you can't follow because of this, you may want to consider migrating your account to another instance. Sign up for another one and see if you can follow the people you currently can't. If you can, then you can consider migrating your account. This will move your following and follower lists (but not your posts—get an archive of those) so you don't have to rebuild from scratch.
This is a thing that happens, and it's part of the design of the fediverse to give smaller instances more control. It's not personal.
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An important lesson for new fedi users (
) : If it looks like an account blocked you because you can't see their posts but you can't think of a reason they blocked you (e.g. you've never interacted with them, or if you have it was cordial): it may be that the admins of their instance has defederated with yours.
That's not blocking you personally; it's an administrative decision that usually comes from conflict or poor moderation by the other user's instance. Instances that tolerate abusive behaviour from users might be defederated because their actions conflict with the rules and principles of the admins of other instances. Admins can block specific users as well, but defederating is often a wiser choice. There are a ton of absolutely toxic/hateful instances created to harass people, and if you haven't seen them that's because they've been rightfully blocked this way.
A lot of different things can lead to this that the individual users aren't aware of or responsible for. It could be an admin behaving like an asshole. It could be questionable admin choices related to security. It could be that the instance is harbouring abusive users. This could happen in either direction—the other user's instance might have been blocked by your instance's admins, or your instance might be the one higher blocked by theirs. It's worth looking into. Some instances list the ones they've defederated in a section on their main page, and there may be a reason listed as well.
If you find that there are some accounts you can't follow because of this, you may want to consider migrating your account to another instance. Sign up for another one and see if you can follow the people you currently can't. If you can, then you can consider migrating your account. This will move your following and follower lists (but not your posts—get an archive of those) so you don't have to rebuild from scratch.
This is a thing that happens, and it's part of the design of the fediverse to give smaller instances more control. It's not personal.
@theynege also the admins of their server may have blocked you specifically rather than your instance, because they didn't appreciate something you wrote.
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@scottjenson I completely agree. I always try to make it clear to users of my forums that they shouldn't object to the way other users post.
Users can report any rule violations to us moderators either through the integrated reporting system or by direct message. If they don't receive a satisfactory response, they can mute or block that user. But they shouldn't harass other users, otherwise the social Fediverse will be under such pressure that only the troublemakers will remain.
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Hey folks,
If you have the opportunity, I would kindly suggest to move off of mastodon.social.
It's one of the biggest, if not still the biggest instance and has been showing problematic activity not just now, but over the years.
That means being blocked by that instance, or trying to block that instance results in losing contact with a lot of people.
Which happened to @fabio just recently for the second time by being blocked. And I don't think any other instance to speak of did that.
The NPO behind it is also registered in Germany.
- a country which has the "Staatsräson" since 2008 of "The security of Israel is unnegotiable", "Our unconditional solidarity with Israel has never been under question for me. My personal relationship with Israel is unconditionally good." (then chancellor Angela Merkel)
Of course not a word about the security of Palestine or Palestinians.
- The country where now the Chancellor echoed words and the sentiment of former Nazi head propagandist Goebbels, by talking of migrants as an issue for the city image, for which he does not apologize. He also does not admit to a genocide being committed by Israel, even when Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, the UN and genocide experts have identified and declared it as such.
- A country where a recent study of hundreds of TV and Newspaper reports for 2025 has shown that 95% of criminal suspects they reported on were foreigners, even though they only make up 34.3% of the actual criminal suspects.
Germany is deeply racist and pro-Israel.
- There was a strong push, which I did not follow of how successful it was, of defining antisemitism to put under suspicion of it any criticism of Israel, and stopping public funding for organisations that do not adhere to that definition.
I think it's naive to think that all this does not also put pressure on an influential project of public opinion such as mastodon.social.
https://www.volksverpetzer.de/analyse/studie-groesste-taetergruppe-systematisch-verschwiegen/
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staatsr%C3%A4son
https://www.bpb.de/shop/zeitschriften/apuz/antisemitismus-2024/549358/israel-und-der-antisemitismus/
https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/innenpolitik/deutschland-israel-staatsraeson-100.html
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@mzll
Non ti montare la testa 😁😁
Penso che basta rallentare e cercare più a fondo e si incontra bella gente .
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If you're on a social media platform that's not on the Fediverse yet, TELL THEM.
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@attksthdrknss substack is a Nazi bar already. I've heard good things about Ghost as an alternative. Latest version even supports integration with the Fediverse, apparently.
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Divergenze nelle traiettorie genetiche.
I modelli quantitativi indicano che i palestinesi derivano la stragrande maggioranza (>90%) della loro ascendenza da un substrato levantino, incluse le popolazioni dell'età del ferro. Gli ebrei ashkenaziti sono invece modellati come una popolazione ibrida, con la loro ascendenza composta da circa il 45-60% di componenti levantine e dal 40-55% di componenti europee (prevalentemente di tipo europeo meridionale).
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@sborrill that would be so great!
