@nus @dansup This is a problem across the board with...

@nus @dansup This is a problem across the board with federation. Everything is ad hoc and there is no appeals process. If you can imagine a total newbie being confronted with a list of servers that were no different other than by name, yet they're supposed to make an informed decision. And to top it off, within a few days they're banned for no reason and no explanation, then they're supposed to try again?

This is how we lose hearts and minds.

Like 20 Feb 2023 at 0:17 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodon.social

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@ParanoidFactoid This situation definitely made me lose my mind (just a smidge).

A similar thing happened when I made a satirical post on this account, mocking someone else's willing to be a bigot... got me pinned as a bigot and had my account limited for a while.

Except the account limiting thing wasn't announced to me, I only figured it out when I couldn't make public posts @dansup

20 Feb 2023 at 0:20 | Open on mstdn.social

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@ParanoidFactoid FWIW I don't blame the moderators on that because I was able to work it out, there is just no interface to warn you if your account is limited (ANYWHERE) and the moderators here are probably reasonable, I reached out to Stux directly and that worked (I have no idea who the mods are)...

Cartoon of Bridget doing the "eto bleh" meme

20 Feb 2023 at 0:50 | Open on mstdn.social