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Can anyone tell me what happens if an instance is blocked by another instance? Say I'm on a big instance, mastodon.social for example. And I follow someone who
by unpopularopp 4y ago
Can anyone tell me what happens if an instance is blocked by another instance?
Say I'm on a big instance, mastodon.social for example. And I follow someone who is self-hosting a single user instance. But they say something that some people don't like and my instance is not federating them with anymore. They are blocked. What happens? I won't be able to see their posts? Do I have to move to another instance which still didn't block them?
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I'm thinking about this for a while but I feel the whole network will have a peer pressure to avoid guilt by association which I'm not sure is a good thing
- Kye 4y agoYes. I've had to do this a couple times when the instance I was on was blocked by the instance I was moving to before the migration function would work. However, unless something changed, this same indirection means a post can make its way around to instances blocked by the instance the post is on.