@stephanmaus @cobaltvelvet @href @stephanmaus

Octodon doesn't allow you to follow SLC people? So a domain block? What about Freezepeach? I wish people would tell me when they do domain blocks like this. Do you know what the reason is for this?

@stephanmaus @cobaltvelvet @stephanmaus @href

Thanks. This is useful for my list.

@stephanmaus

Yeah, I have decided to keep track of instances that domain block/sandbox SLC and FZP which I am the moderator for. This is so that I can be transparent for my users about who they can communicate with... I have seen some people asking why they can't do so, or replying without realising that we've been blocked. It also helps us with debugging.

@stephanmaus @stephanmaus

You know, it has been the new community entering through mastodon that has made me decide to create this list, it wasn't such an issue before this. There were a few in place. HLA used to block us, but that was because of legal issues over loli. There was another instance that we clashed with early on I think. But mostly it has been okay. I'm not aware of blocking from the other communities before we came aside from one we clashed with, but I might have missed others... @fl0wn or @hope can speak about that better than me. Of course, mastodon.social has blocked us over past clashes and claims it is over loli being allowed as far as I'm aware. But we weren't liked because gargron considered us the "altright/nazi" bad guys, basically we've become the "other". We do have people that like to shitpost, and post material others may/do find offensive. It's those guys they don't like I am guessing. Although even I've had to deal with some attitudes.

If you want to connect with SLC, then Shitposter or highland arrow might be the more neutral instances. But I've seen some of these lists target shitposter too. So you may want to have two in order to communicate across the whole federation, one for mastodon and the other for the 'bad guy' instances on GS. It's a good idea to have more than one account on different instances in case one goes down so you remain connected still.

@stephanmaus @hope @fl0wn @sim @stephanmaus >There is this nazi/racism/sexism-thing on some instances.
the 'problem' is that accusations of being a "nazi" are often just an excuse used by someone to disappear opinions they disagree with - with certain mastodon instances it's done on an instance level as opposed to personal (which i guess would be acceptable).

granted, sometimes it's about controversial stuff, like migration policies or matter of nationality/minorities, but it's still a massive cop-out to just slap a sticker and block an entire server for something someone said. also note that some instances just copy a list made by some instance admin, implement it and just call it quits while proclaiming that here be the evil nazis.

i find it all pretty funny actually, then again i do think everything will solve itself one way or another.

as a sidenote, it must be a very scary world to live in if one sees nazis everywhere, heh. i'd post a smug-looking anime girl in an ss uniform with this post but you're a german so maybe they'd imprison you for seeing that. i dunno.