@freemo Is the mastodon.social spam wave ongoing? Just tried to follow someone from there and got HTTP 403 not allowed.
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@admitsWrongIfProven I will test the waters, turning off silence now.
@freemo Thank you. If you did it yet, it didn't change anything. What could be the reason for 403, possibly some kind of block or only the silencing?
@admitsWrongIfProven Sorry had a call come in.. the silence was just removed now, give it a try.
@admitsWrongIfProven maybe that individual user has us blocked? Can you follow other accounts on social?
@freemo Just tried that and followed the first random account, that worked. Can you follow "https://mastodon.social/@elhotzo"?
@admitsWrongIfProven Yes I can follow them... is it possible they have you blocked personally?
@freemo Since i have no history with that account, it would mean i was on some public malicious block list. That would explain why that other account i have no quarrel with is unfollowable.
I understand that it is neccessary to not notify blocked people for privacy / safety reasons, but it is incredibly frustrating to be blocked without any interaction.
@admitsWrongIfProven It seems unlikely you as an individual (rather thant he server) is on a block list... thats kinda weird...
@freemo Well, i just read Will Wheatons post about why he left masto, that included a block list he used that included trans people (for no good reason), so i guess it does happen that individual people are on block lists.
Anyway, thanks for your help, i think i see clearer now.
@admitsWrongIfProven I beleive the block list you are reading about was the one he used on twitter before moving to mastodon, and people were mad at him for having used (and promoted) that blocklist over on twitter, among other reasons to be mad at him.
As far as I know wil didnt maintain any block lists in his short time here.
@freemo What his post said was that he used one provided by someone else, and that list included individuals that should not be on there.
In any case, it was just to illustrate that i did hear about public block lists with individuals, not servers. I don't know the details about Will.
Seems like masto is a place where one needs a non-controversial (=silent) account to actually read stuff from more than a select few.
@admitsWrongIfProven yea he is talking about the twitter block list by the sound of it (which was a big deal when he was here).