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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Feb-2024 04:02:01 JST Aral Balkan

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

   So there’s that.

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

   • Michael (mhp@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Feb-2024 04:10:58 JST Michael

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     @aral FWIW, I can see your toots and profile normally, although I've been following you for a while. Would it be obvious to me if you were shadow banned?

     Thinking about it, there was a profile I couldn't see a few hours ago, but that looked like a temporary glitch as it had resolved when I looked again half an hour later.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Feb-2024 04:10:58 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Michael

     @mhp If I was shadow banned you wouldn’t notice. But anyone not following me would not see my profile or posts.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Feb-2024 04:21:52 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Trevor Goodchild

     @Trevorgoodchild Well that’s good to know.

     Would be nice if there was a way to check. And a policy of letting people know if there are.

   • Trevor Goodchild (trevorgoodchild@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Feb-2024 04:21:53 JST Trevor Goodchild

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     @aral nope I can see your posts from multiple Alt accounts on multiple instances.

     I see no evidence of shadow banning what so ever.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Feb-2024 04:24:57 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Stéphanie Pageau

     @stephanie Thanks, good to know.

   • Stéphanie Pageau (stephanie@ottawa.place)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Feb-2024 04:24:58 JST 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

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Feb-2024 04:28:26 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Stéphanie Pageau

     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.

     #mastodonSocial

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Feb-2024 04:29:55 JST 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.)

     #fediverse #instances #scale #powerDynamics #federation

   • Captain Steph (sirber@fosstodon.org)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Feb-2024 05:29:12 JST Captain Steph

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     • parallel unstable lean :OwOid:

     @getimiskon @aral they are too big indeed, it's against the goal of mastodon and the federation.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Feb-2024 05:29:12 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Captain Steph
     • parallel unstable lean :OwOid:

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

   • parallel unstable lean :OwOid: (getimiskon@fedi.getimiskon.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Feb-2024 05:29:13 JST parallel unstable lean :OwOid:

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     • Captain Steph
     @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
   • Captain Steph (sirber@fosstodon.org)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Feb-2024 05:29:14 JST Captain Steph

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     • parallel unstable lean :OwOid:

     @getimiskon @aral that's like blocking half the Internet 🤣

   • parallel unstable lean :OwOid: (getimiskon@fedi.getimiskon.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Feb-2024 05:29:15 JST parallel unstable lean :OwOid:

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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: