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Yes, across all instances that your instance federates with. If your instance dislikes the policy of the other instance, e.g. because the other instance hasn't

Yes, across all instances that your instance federates with. If your instance dislikes the policy of the other instance, e.g. because the other instance hasn't cancelled the right people, they might refuse to federate with it (and the other way around), and then you won't see those toots. Also, some instances will defederate any instance that itself federates with the "wrong" instances, sometimes forcing an instance to choose between letting others dictate its federation policy or having their users lose access to others they're following.

robswc 4y ago
At first I thought this wasn't a huge deal... it would be like having a bad experience with twitter moderation but now I'm thinking... in that case, you'll have to "choose" your first server pretty carefully then? Maybe I have a misunderstanding but I can't imagine convincing something like that on reddit or discord would go over well at all. Who and what you interact with can be changed by the whims of discord/reddit mods. Some even go so far as to craft tools/bots to extend their "power" to allow them to ban users across subs. This doesn't make it so you can't see the other users entirely though. What if you join on "gaming" and it turns out the admin of "gaming" is a huge d-bag and all the other instances decide to not federate with "gaming" ? Will you have to recreate your entire account? I could still be misunderstanding... but it seems like as time goes on, the chances of admins/mods having some ridiculous drama approaches 1. At least as far as discord and reddit have gone. Just look at the whole antiwork thing. Drama and struggles within the same subreddit, let alone different ones.
- ryukafalz 4y ago
  > What if you join on "gaming" and it turns out the admin of "gaming" is a huge d-bag and all the other instances decide to not federate with "gaming" ? Will you have to recreate your entire account? Not entirely, you can migrate to a new instance. This of course depends on the old instance still being around (as that's where your account lives until you choose to migrate it), and on your account still being accessible (so hopefully you're not banned from it) but it's an option. Your followers get migrated over but your posts do not. So you do need to have some level of trust in the instance, but it's not necessarily a final decision.
- toofy 4y ago
  > What if you join on "gaming" and it turns out the admin of "gaming" is a huge d-bag and all the other instances decide to not federate with "gaming" ? Will you have to recreate your entire account? no, you just move your account to a different server. with reddit you’re at the mercy of the mods closing a sub down or locking down. same with discord. with mastodon we just move our account—when you move, you keep the same followers/following so in the very rare occurrence something like this happens, it’s a minimal disruption with an easy solution. moving even redirects to your new account, so if someone has your old address, mastodon just directs them straight to where you moved to—god i wish email would do this.
thrown_22 4y ago
That's the drama I was missing in my life.
newaccount74 4y ago
Sounds like the origin story of EFNet [1] [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFnet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFnet

robswc 4y ago

At first I thought this wasn't a huge deal... it would be like having a bad experience with twitter moderation but now I'm thinking... in that case, you'll have to "choose" your first server pretty carefully then? Maybe I have a misunderstanding but I can't imagine convincing something like that on reddit or discord would go over well at all. Who and what you interact with can be changed by the whims of discord/reddit mods. Some even go so far as to craft tools/bots to extend their "power" to allow them to ban users across subs. This doesn't make it so you can't see the other users entirely though. What if you join on "gaming" and it turns out the admin of "gaming" is a huge d-bag and all the other instances decide to not federate with "gaming" ? Will you have to recreate your entire account? I could still be misunderstanding... but it seems like as time goes on, the chances of admins/mods having some ridiculous drama approaches 1. At least as far as discord and reddit have gone. Just look at the whole antiwork thing. Drama and struggles within the same subreddit, let alone different ones.

ryukafalz 4y ago
> What if you join on "gaming" and it turns out the admin of "gaming" is a huge d-bag and all the other instances decide to not federate with "gaming" ? Will you have to recreate your entire account? Not entirely, you can migrate to a new instance. This of course depends on the old instance still being around (as that's where your account lives until you choose to migrate it), and on your account still being accessible (so hopefully you're not banned from it) but it's an option. Your followers get migrated over but your posts do not. So you do need to have some level of trust in the instance, but it's not necessarily a final decision.
toofy 4y ago
> What if you join on "gaming" and it turns out the admin of "gaming" is a huge d-bag and all the other instances decide to not federate with "gaming" ? Will you have to recreate your entire account? no, you just move your account to a different server. with reddit you’re at the mercy of the mods closing a sub down or locking down. same with discord. with mastodon we just move our account—when you move, you keep the same followers/following so in the very rare occurrence something like this happens, it’s a minimal disruption with an easy solution. moving even redirects to your new account, so if someone has your old address, mastodon just directs them straight to where you moved to—god i wish email would do this.

thrown_22 4y ago

That's the drama I was missing in my life.

newaccount74 4y ago

Sounds like the origin story of EFNet [1] [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFnet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFnet