Gregory's Server@rauschma I had to run through the process of creating an account 3 times due to being banned randomly, without warning and without getting an answer on my appeal on 2 different highly recommended instances - before making a single post or writing anything. My best guess is that my username was mistaken as a bot account, but not responding to appeals is frustrating.
So while it wasn't complicated, I have lost some faith in decentralized instances run on goodwill.
@OddMinus1 Opaque moderation decision are definitely a downside of Mastodon! It’s a shame the moderation teams were unresponsive.
I’d still consider it to be somewhat of a win for federation though: If you are banned from (e.g.) X/Twitter, you can’t go somewhere else and take your followers with you.
More to be done for sure!