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@sgryphon Looking at that makes my teeth fall off spontaneously. Whee!

@hvangalen Yup. But so far they're doing a shitty job of it. Create account, put spammy profile text in... and that's it. That's the majority of those silly spam accounts. Nobody would ever look at those, heh. But it sure fills up our usercount. :P

@hvangalen You can safely remove like 1M as spam accounts in my experience. Still a lot though.

@lucifargundam Have you actually done the 5-year wait? :P

@JonKramer There'll be more in the coming time. Depends on how bored I feel. ;) Most of those are dormant spam accounts.

@JonKramer A lot of spam accounts were removed. ;)

@2ck Have you checked out Uncle from Another World? I think it falls in the same ridiculous category. I've enjoyed that one a lot too.

I guess I like this kind of ridiculous anime somehow. Just like Saiki K.

@JamesGLA90@mastodon.online And then you add stuff to it like too much salt. Not so healthy anymore. But tasty!

@mandaroza

No problem. The decentralized nature of the Fediverse has its advantages and disadvantages. If you go into the technicalities, the learning curve starts to be a bit steep. For 'just using it', it's alright, until you start to wonder why some friends can't be found. Then, yes, we get into the nastier details of blocking and all that fun stuff.

Sorry. 😓

@mandaroza

Well, that thread was about mograph.social, so we wouldn't have known how to correctly answer your question to begin with. There is always a server blocked by some other server somewhere on the Fediverse.

But if you go to the About page of mastodonapp.uk which you can find here: https://mastodonapp.uk/about you'll see when you scroll beyond the server rules to 'Moderated Servers', that qoto is indeed blocked by them.
Including the reason they gave. Which, as you can see, is not quite correct as Qoto does not allow for hate speech and is actively moderated.

Sadly, this is something we cannot help with, as our latest attempt to contact admins of other servers that blocked us had quite a big backlash.

Hope this answers your question?

@mandaroza No, that Q itself didn't get a response. But if you look back in the thread, you can see frayoshi talking about mograph.social, right? Qoto is indeed blocked by mograph.social.

@mandaroza
That's fair. We won't hold it against you if you prefer to be active somewhere else. Some people do want walled gardens without having to go block the nasty stuff by themselves and we understand that.

Again, it's your decision. We can't force you to stay or something. :) All I can do is wishing you good luck on your decision.

@freemo

@mandaroza But I think that was already answered before, when I look back?

@mandaroza We must've missed it. November was crazy busy with so many people joining.

@mandaroza
Well, it's not exactly a secret that there are a group of servers blocking Qoto. I mean, @freemo was pretty vocal about it before the holidays. ;)

The problem is that there are other servers who block Qoto because Qoto doesn't block the same servers as they do... Qoto refuses to join in that childish mentality.

But because of Qoto's no-block stance we also are very reasonably well-connected with the rest of the Fediverse. It just looks like your friends happen to be on those block-happy instances, so that's bad luck.

@mandaroza Yes, that is far from 'not working properly' though, so that's a bit unfair to say.

But I understand the frustration. If your friends' servers block Qoto (there's a little history with this, @freemo has posted about this a few times), and you want to be able to chat with your friends, there are a few options available:

- Either you and/or your friends move to another server that can see the other server so you can communicate with each other.

- You could create a 2nd account to communicate with your friends (this isn't uncommon actually, every instance has their own 'view' of the Fediverse due to the nature of every server deciding for themselves who to block and who not).

You'll have to discuss with your friends what the best course of action would be in your case, and possibly you'll have to either move or create an alt-account somewhere else.

Whatever you decide, I wish you the best.

Woh, nice. A buddy gifted me Horizon Zero Dawn... but I can't install it because I have no disk space available! 😋

I guess I need to figure out what to remove. Why do those games need so many GBs... :P
#Games

@lucifargundam 🤨