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rosey (rosey@neko.computer)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Aug-2023 22:52:58 JST rosey @thor the lack of notification is the worst part, the instance i was on before i started self-hosting defederated me which cut me off from half the people i follow and if i didn't happen to notice my follower count was so low i might never hae caught it
then i obviously couldn't message the instance's admin from here so i had to email him to find out what was going on-
Thorwegian ❄️ (thor@berserker.town)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Aug-2023 22:52:59 JST Thorwegian ❄️ the right of free speech does of course not mean the right to have it published, and it's also typically curtailed in various ways depending on your jurisdiction.
but there's a philosophy behind it. the laws didn't come first. first there was the movement of free thinking during the Enlightenment Era and *then* this turned into laws.
with how the Fediverse works, and with most users having no exposure to moderation policies or how various admins implement them, it's easy to get caught up in a situation where you lose touch with good friends because of a control freak admin.
and you're not notified of it either. users don't know what they aren't seeing, and admins don't know who is blocking them or why. not without investigating and using unofficial tools that scan for blocks.
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