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aral@mastodon.ar.al

Aral Balkan

Edited 8 months ago

Update: I’m apparently not.

See: https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/111999407825147928

(Not deleting this so we don’t lose the conversation in the comments. Just don’t want new folks getting tripped up by it.)

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Sounds like I’m shadow-banned on mastodon.social too.

So there’s that.

https://mastodon.social/@CassandraZeroCovid/111999270668664277

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getimiskon

gettie (neocat_googly_woozy arc) OwOid verified_neko neocat_flag_ace neocat_flag_nb

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@aral I'll be honest, I don't trust mastodon social. So I blocked it on my instance. neocat_evil_3c
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aral@mastodon.ar.al

Aral Balkan

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@Em0nM4stodon Always has been.

It’s called limiting.

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aral@mastodon.ar.al

Aral Balkan

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So apparently I’m not shadow-banned on mastodon.social … thanks to @babe and @stephanie for checking.

Still, this show limiting/shadow banning thing is a problem. Block people if you want to but don’t gaslight them.

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aral@mastodon.ar.al

Aral Balkan

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I really need to write something about why having mega instances on the fediverse is a problem that’s longer than a toot.

Probably a good time for a post on the subject given I now have about the same number of people following me here as I did when I closed my Twitter account.

(It took close to eight years to get there.)

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getimiskon

gettie (neocat_googly_woozy arc) OwOid verified_neko neocat_flag_ace neocat_flag_nb

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@sirber I seriously think that mastodon social should have closed their registration long ago in order to avoid consolidating a significant amount of fediverse users into a single instance and encourage users to try other instances. It would be much better.
Also they should have improved their moderation to avoid spamming people from other instances. That's actually the reason I blocked them.
@aral
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aral@mastodon.ar.al

Aral Balkan

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@Em0nM4stodon It’s invisible to the limited account unless they create an account on that server and check.

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aral@mastodon.ar.al

Aral Balkan

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@sirber @getimiskon Well, it’s at least against the goal of decentralisation.

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stephanie@ottawa.place

Stéphanie Pageau

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@aral I just double checked. You can go on mastodon.social, and check both accounts (LA's and yours). She's limited, you're not

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aral@mastodon.ar.al

Aral Balkan

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@stephanie Thanks, good to know.

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stephanie@ottawa.place

Stéphanie Pageau

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@Em0nM4stodon @aral @babe I'm trying to remember why we would use Limit on an account (on my old instance). It was quite rare. Sometimes for NSFW accounts that posted a lot, so they wouldn't be in the local timeline, while not deserving a ban. Or an account that was receiving a lot of reports, but still had follows from our instance, so it wouldn't break connections... But yeah, this should not be the preferred moderation action in general.

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