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Yesterday, users of mstdn.social instance lost their connections to artists at mastodon.art instance ( src: https://framapiaf.org/@Curator@mastodon.art/110570978375947500 ). I hope giving visibility to this issue will help them to restore the broken bridges.
@davidrevoy I'm on mstdn.social and my follow list is still full of people from mastodon.art. Their profiles wouldn't display during the brief period the server was blocked, but there wasn't a permanent severed connection that I can see.
@TonyaCanning This was my experience, too. I'm still getting posts and boosts from at least a few mastodon.art folks that I followed before the suspension, although it doesn't look like they are following me any longer...
@htdrake @TonyaCanning
The account @curator@mastodon.art is blocked here on https://masto.ai (which has the same admin as mstdn.social, Stux)
I suspect it is also blocked on your instance?
It has as far as I remember 60,000? followers.
It is one of the best and most influential accounts on the fediverse, imo.
The defederation was a unilateral decision by Stux and has resulted in numerous lost connections.
@fedi @TonyaCanning I wondered if the suspension was so short-lived that perhaps not all the follow connections in whatever database tracks them were removed on our instances' sides.
Aside from this one event, I've found Stux to be a very reasonable admin. He's built up a lot of trust in my "trust bank" and has earned the right to learn from this mistake and do better in future.
Just to clarify I'm sure the block on the Curator account after mastodon.art was unblocked is deliberate.
Stux has put a lot of work into his instances and deserves thanks for that definitely. I accept that admins will make mistakes.
I don't know if you are aware that he has said that his instances will federate with a Facebook instance that is believed to be joining mastodon(fediverse) in the next few weeks - this is related to the chaos yesterday.