cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/1473025
This seems like it may be the root cause of the recent server issues, I had to guess. Probably a lot of federation issues if the .ml domains went down all at once. Probably why it's not that smart to use a domain owned by a (nominally) hostile foreign government, just saying...
Ohh, that explains why I only see all the people complaining about commies and almost no actual commies. I'm starting to really not like how this federation thing works, it really feels like Twitter block lists, except it's completely out of my control. We're already getting blocked by a lot of people for being a furry instance and this instance blocks a ton of stuff I probably wouldn't mind seeing even if I don't like it. And I'm not really sure how viable a single user instance is especially with all that in context, and with everyone else you could talk to getting echoboxed like that.
What instances defederate with us? As far as I know, pawb.social seems to be in pretty good standing with all of the other common instances.