I've probably been mass-muted and mass-blocked for not acting Mastodon-like enough; CW: long (almost 3,000 characters), Fediverse meta, Fediverse-beyond-Mastodon meta, mute/block meta
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I've got over 500 connections, most of which are on Mastodon. Yet, it feels like I've got much less reach in the Fediverse now than I used to have when I only had some 200 or 300 connections. This can only mean that especially lots of Mastodon users and maybe even entire Mastodon instances have muted, blocked or shadow-banned me. I wouldn't even be surprised if some public Mastodon instances have secretly muted or blocked hub.netzgemeinde.eu as a whole just because of my actions.
I can't really tell from the delivery reports, for one difference between Mastodon and Hubzilla is that Hubzilla rejects blocked or filtered messages at the server level whereas Mastodon accepts them and then discards them before they can be delivered to the muting, blocking or filtering recipient. Otherwise I think I could weed out a whole lot of connections.
And here's a list of reasons for which I've probably been muted, blocked or shadow-banned:
- Posting over 500 characters. Regardless of whether or not I put them behind a Mastodon-style content warning.
- Posting over 500 characters without a Mastodon-style content warning. That's because I simply can't put Mastodon-style content warnings on comments. Still, I'm pretty sure that just about everyone who has ever come across an over-500-character comment from me while using the official Mastodon app has taken countermeasures.
- A summary in the content warning. Mastodon's content warning field is the summary field, but 99% of all Mastodon users don't know.
- More than four hashtags. On Mastodon, more than four hashtags are spam, regardless of whether they're spread across a 150-character toot or a 10,000-character essay or at the very end of the post. Also, Mastodon largely doesn't know the concept of filtering hashtags, it knows filter-generated content warnings even less, and it knows the concept of adding hashtags in order to trigger filters another great deal less.
- A few may still be upset about text formatting, even though I guess many mobile apps still don't show it.
- Talking about virtual worlds, but the Mastodon users in question don't know how to filter.
- Talking about the Fediverse, but actually talking about the Fediverse outside of Mastodon and/or making Mastodon look bad in comparison to non-Mastodon Fediverse projects.
- Questioning Mastodon practices that are set in stone and never discussed on Mastodon such as certain aspects of describing images.
Essentially, this boils down to two points:
- not adopting the entirety of Mastodon's culture as a Hubzilla user
- not abandoning Hubzilla's culture as a Hubzilla user
All because the Fediquette is entirely defined by Mastodon users, most of whom at that point didn't and often still don't know that the Fediverse is more than just Mastodon.
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