Post AdNnK1wFGgOqTyVMxs by luna@pony.social
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 (DIR) Post #AdNnK1wFGgOqTyVMxs by luna@pony.social
       2023-12-31T21:00:01Z
       
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       In 2009, I join Twitter.I make friends there.I can see their posts.Twitter has a Nazi problem.I pre-emptively join Mastodon.But I don’t really use it yet.Elon Musk buys Twitter.My friends start leaving.I no longer see their posts.I want to see my friends’ posts.-I find my friends again on Mastodon.Now I have two apps to keep track of.But I can see my friends’ posts again.My instance admins get in a fight.Friends’ instances defederate from mine.I can no longer follow them, nor they me.I am told about this by a friend who noticed.There is no indication given by the software.I am not notified of the connections I’ve lost.I want to see my friends’ posts.-A friend invites me to their instance.I accept, and migrate my profile across.I re-follow missing friends I can remember.And I can see my friends’ posts again.A friend posts photos on her instance.But those photos are not visible on mine.Her profile appears, to me, devoid of images.My new instance seemingly media-blocks hers.There is no indication given by the software.-I just want to see my friends’ posts.Am I wrong to want that?-https://moonbase.lgbt/blog/i-want-to-see-my-friends-posts/
       
 (DIR) Post #AdNo8AIiS15qtgvCUK by skobkin@lor.sh
       2023-12-31T22:54:47Z
       
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       @lunaThat's why I'm telling every instance admin that instance block should be the last resort. Like when malicious domain without real users appeara. If they're afraid of another instance, why not just LIMIT it? This way their users may still follow users on that instance.But no, a lot of them so full of themselves and think that they're the right person to decide for you. And when I call them out on that, they say that "it's easy to move!".I like to groan at such moments. They're too stupid to understand that untill full server block is considered the last resort by everybody, users won't have a peaceful place anywhere. It's just useless to move if you have 100 friends and each one of them are unavailable from somewhere.