Just found out that the Mastodon instance that my favorite artist uses (AFAIK*) defederated Kbin/Lemmy instance that I’m currently using. As a result, I think I can’t follow this artist. I kinda understand that defederation is important, but… the problem is I don’t think the instances I am using did anything wrong. But then again, even the line of what’s considered “doing anything wrong” is really subjective, depends on who you asked.

Also, I now understand even more about the drama few days ago about beehaw

*I saw the server list on the Mastodon instance about page, and it listed as “Suspended”, I wonder what this means

#fediverse

  • stackPeek@kbin.socialOP
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    1 year ago

    @Jerry

    You cannot follow anyone, they cannot follow you. All communication, including API requests, are blocked.

    WOW. That’s really really bad. And I doubt it’s going to be easy convincing artists to move to other instances.

    Can you share the name of the Mastodon instance?

    mastodon[dot]art

    Based on the “Moderated Servers” section, it looks like their reasoning is “Not moderating far right content”

    This is insane, because I literally never seen any remotely negative post in kbin.social, let alone far-right content