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> What complicates this is that there’s more than one way two instances can be hostile towards each other. Sure, there’s full defederation, which is relatively rare, but there’s also silencing. And there’s more than one type of that, as far as I understand it.
This is true, there are other ways. We measure that a bit indirectly using another metric that gets around it. Its called insularity. It basically doesnt look at federation in this case but actual communiction. It looks to see how diverse the users from once instance are at communication with and following users from other instances. An instance which has followers across many different instances has lower insulatiry.
Even when we measured insularity last I checked QOTO was ranked extremely high.
> It’s one thing for an individual user to block me, but we have cases like sdf.org, which have silenced me for the entire server. I can see their toots but nobody on that instance can see mine. And, no, they did not respond to my complaints, because why would they?
Silencing you as an individual i cant speak to, I dont know how well spread that is. But sdf as a server doesnt block QOTO and as I pointed out if they or other servers silenced us it would show up through the insularity metric.
