@feditips I don’t know why, but i’ve lost my ability to follow people. When I go to someone’s profile, the follow button is just a blank gray.
PS i’m still getting my bearings in the fediverse so if there was a smarter way for me to ask this question, I apologize for not pursuing it.
I'm just about to start the automatic migration procedure, so it should move your follow over to the new account seamlessly, but if you want to follow the new account manually straight away you can do so (it won't mess anything up).
The new server is my own one, it's where FediFollows, FediVideo etc are already.
If there are any problems, contact my personal account at @FediThing
It should work now, there was a freak bug on Vivaldi.net that blocked some newer accounts. The bug has since been fixed, so please follow me at @FediTips
"Facebook will continue to offer a platform to Holocaust deniers, Infowars, and other publishers of hoaxes on the assumption that they are sincere in their beliefs, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said."
Sort of, but it won't be as effective as a server defederation.
Users blocking a server basically just hides stuff from that server, and removes any follows you have from that server. It's more like closing your eyes to them than actually restricting them.
You can do a "domain block" by clicking on the profile of a person from that server, then clicking ︙ on their profile, and then "block domain".
The main FediPact list is at https://fedipact.online/ but unfortunately it's not organised into any kind of categories. There are public instances and single user instances mixed together in a big list.
(Hopefully something better will appear soon, just working on something at moment but can't promise anything yet.)
#Threads is testing federation for a few selected profiles. I'm now following @mosseri! It's one-way for now, but it's exciting. It's a step towards the interoperable social web that we've been advocating for 🙂
This is the kind of company you're excited about working with?
There is zero chance Meta is genuinely interested in interoperability, they just want to take over control of whatever community the Fediverse has built up. As Meta's CEO said, people who trust him are "stupid f**ks".
@feditips should I be boosting posts instead of liking/favoriting them? How do i A) let the author know I had a positive interaction
B) let others know I had a positive interaction
Are replies preferred? Still trying to figure out the cultural norms here.
Favourite a toot if you like it, that lets the author know you liked it.
Boost it if you want to share it with your followers.
Reply if you have something to say to the author or on the topic. (You can set your reply's visibility to mentions only if you want to reply to just the author.)
Boosts have the added advantage that they spread the post to all the servers of all your followers, so the post will become searchable on all your followers' servers too (if it wasn't already).
I was unable to post on Instagram this morning because I have a link in my account to mas.to (my mastodon instance). No idea which one of these Meta is accusing mas.to of, but this is why you should not trust Meta or federate with anything they build. If they get to be the largest Mastodon server, then they can start dictating their regressive content moderation policies on the rest of the fediverse. I stand with my admin @trumpet and their decision to preemptively block any Meta instances.
We know de-platforming works because bigots fight against it so strongly. If de-platforming helped bigots, why do bigots oppose it?
Bigotry needs to be isolated and sidelined and given as little chance to be noticed as possible.
Bigots want attention by any means possible, because they know a certain percentage of the audience will agree with them. Don't give them an audience. Block them. Isolate them. Deny them any coverage.