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I’ve earned a lifelong shadowban on the largest Mastodon instance just because I doubted a political paper (which later turned out to be as unsubstantial as I said it would be). And there’s no way to contact support as support only answers to actual members, not people from a different instance. So, ever since, whenever I reply to someone from there, they need to approve my comment before anyone else from that instance can see it. Same for when I want to follow someone new from there. It’s ridiculous.

This is your sign to find a smaller instance and support that one instead. Or, maybe even go the selfhosting route and setup a GotoSocial instance for yourself.

Posts can also get synced if someone from gram.social searched for a direct link to a post. E.g. if you go to gram.social and search for https://pixelfed.social/p/pixuser/1234, it’ll get synced in the background and show up if you follow @pixuser later on. (Depending on how long the instance caches it.)

Likes and Reshares of external posts are local to their instance. Those won’t get sent to other instances. E.g. on my private GotoSocial I don’t see the correct amount of likes or reshares of posts from other instances. I’ll have to visit the posts on their original instance for that. (But then, I rarely care.)

Fediverse works like newsletters via email. If you search for an account on a different server, only the last few items are (sometimes) pulled and shown on your local instance. Only after subscribing/following that other account, you’ll get new(!) updates sent to your local server. For older messages, you’ll have to visit the other account’s server.

Maybe those 2 photos you see were shared with gram.social earlier.

Not to be confused with the original Web Intents.

poison the pool for LLMs

This is the correct answer. Some people wanted to try making the þ show up in future LLM answers.

You could add the podcast to NeoDB and link there. While the item pages aren’t properly federated, all the user comments and ratings are.

Apart from the stuff already mentioned, never stop shouting into the void about stuff that interests you or projects you’re working on. Add a few relevant hashtags so your toots can be discovered. It may take a while, but people will come. Don’t give up.

Settings --> Posts --> Interaction Bar

Then remove the combined up/down thingy and add the separate up and down chips. They show separate numbers.

Then do the same thing under Settings --> Comments --> Interaction Bar.

Mlem - replaced Voyager for me.

But will they continue to moderate content by German leftist standards?

As Plume isn’t maintained anymore, there are also a few ActivityPub plugins for WordPress which work very well.

NeoDB is Trakt.tv

Start your own instance, be the change you want to see in the world.

This right here is the beauty of the Fediverse. And as such, it’s not “The Fediverse” that’s a “Left Wing Circle Jerk”, it’s just the servers you’ve found so far.

but I didn’t use the word “flower”

Well, hopefully you’ve added an ALT text to the picture for all those visually challenged people out there - which then also helps search engines.

There’s also Marginalia if you’re looking for some rather traditional web search.

At least WP is free, Ghost is as “free” until you find out its only useful with the rest of the payed platform. editorjs.io is much better in that sense.

https://lemmy.ml/post/31091334/19015547

It’s not lemmy.zip that’s blocked in the UK, they (lemmy.zip) block every visitor from the UK as they don’t want to get in trouble for violating the UK’s Online Safety Act.

IMHO, it’s one thing if you want to limit everything from there on your instance and on your own will, but a completely different thing for them to basically secretly ban you from their whole instance just because one single person on there felt offended and reported you. There surely must be something in between doing nothing and this sitewide shadowban.

That slogan was originally coined in 1848 by King Ludwig I. But as with many things, the nazis severely tainted it. (Even though it was used by the socialist party after WWII, too.)

There’s a whole German Wikipedia article about this.