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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 06-Nov-2023 00:52:01 JST Aral Balkan

   We’re moving to a new city and the only community I can find for it is on #Facebook.

   So, as much as I don’t want to, I decide to make a Facebook account again just to access this community…

   (This is why communities must not be locked behind the walled gardens of surveillance capitalists. But even if we create fedi/Small Web alternatives, we still need to let the existing ones know they exist somehow.)

   …Anyway, long story short, I can’t – they’ve #blacklisted my name :)

   O hai, Mark! :Wiseau:

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 06-Nov-2023 00:57:22 JST Aral Balkan

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     … But their name filter is diacritic-sensitive… so I give you my doppelganger, now with 50% more Frenchness…

     :awesome:👍

     *sigh*

     PS. To pronounce my name correctly, all the vowels would have accent graves on them.

     #facebook #name #unicode

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 06-Nov-2023 01:00:00 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Samuel Chase

     @samebchase Oh, some folks over there don’t like me too much (with good reason, mind you, and the feeling’s mutual) ;)

   • Samuel Chase (samebchase@fantastic.earth)'s status on Monday, 06-Nov-2023 01:00:01 JST Samuel Chase

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     @aral Why would they blacklist someone who's obviously not a spammer, malicious user?

     Did you use FB to criticise them?

   • lesighlepurr (lesighlepurr@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Nov-2023 01:06:02 JST lesighlepurr

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     @aral wtaf!?

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 06-Nov-2023 01:06:02 JST Aral Balkan

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     • lesighlepurr

     @lesighlepurr Let’s just say there’s no love lost between me and some of the folks at Facebook ;)

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 06-Nov-2023 01:38:27 JST Aral Balkan

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     • grob 🇺🇦

     @grob Hey, it’s their corporate space, they can do whatever they want 🤷♂️

   • grob 🇺🇦 (grob@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Nov-2023 01:38:28 JST grob 🇺🇦

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     @aral crappy FB move though

   • grob 🇺🇦 (grob@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Nov-2023 01:38:30 JST grob 🇺🇦

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     @aral lol, mon dieu

   • Samuel Chase (samebchase@fantastic.earth)'s status on Monday, 06-Nov-2023 01:50:51 JST Samuel Chase

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     @aral I'm surprised they have the time and energy to spitefully block/prevent you from using it.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 06-Nov-2023 01:50:51 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Samuel Chase

     @samebchase All it takes is one pissed off engineer with the correct permissions and a database entry – it’s really not that much hassle ;)

     Although there might just be a cautionary tale in this somewhere about trusting our all our public spaces to corporate entities…

     (Or, in other words, about privitasing all public space so we have none left.)

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 06-Nov-2023 01:51:33 JST Aral Balkan

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     • masukomi

     @masukomi Indeed. *whew!* ;)

   • masukomi (masukomi@connectified.com)'s status on Monday, 06-Nov-2023 01:51:34 JST masukomi

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     @aral It's a good thing there are never two people in the world with the same family and given name.

     🤦♀️

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 06-Nov-2023 05:20:22 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Tushar Chauhan

     @tchauhan Yep, in a different city :)

   • Tushar Chauhan (tchauhan@mastodon.mit.edu)'s status on Monday, 06-Nov-2023 05:20:23 JST Tushar Chauhan

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     @aral I thought you guys were buying !

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 06-Nov-2023 05:22:27 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Jernej Simončič �

     @jernej__s Maybe, who knows :)

   • Jernej Simončič � (jernej__s@infosec.exchange)'s status on Monday, 06-Nov-2023 05:22:28 JST Jernej Simončič �

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     @aral What if you use Bаlkаn instead (using Cyrillic а instead of Latin a, assuming your last name is not normally written with a diactric)?

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 06-Nov-2023 05:24:03 JST Aral Balkan

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     • TechSaur G

     @GuillaumeL Oh, I thought it was a longer “ah” sound (which is how you pronounce all the vowels in my name… or at least how I do) :)

   • TechSaur G (guillaumel@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 06-Nov-2023 05:24:04 JST TechSaur G

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     @aral fun fact: there is actually no pronunciation difference between “a” and “à” in French (also it’s an accentuated letter we rarely use inside words) 🤫

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 06-Nov-2023 07:07:34 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Tushar Chauhan

     @tchauhan Thanks 💕

   • Tushar Chauhan (tchauhan@mastodon.mit.edu)'s status on Monday, 06-Nov-2023 07:07:35 JST Tushar Chauhan

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     @aral Ah gotcha. All the best ! ^_^

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 06-Nov-2023 22:24:29 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Colin H.

     @GlasWolf Yeah, right? ;P

     (Seriously, though, looking at the absolute crap it started throwing at “my” timeline, I have no idea how people put up with that shit. Well, I do. They don’t know better. Because all Silicon Valley has funded has been the same shit.)

   • Colin H. (glaswolf@mastodon.scot)'s status on Monday, 06-Nov-2023 22:24:30 JST Colin H.

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     @aral What terrible, overcomplicated onboarding - only tech nerds will use it. I'm sticking with Mastodon. 😉