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Re:From GNU social to Mastodon by TheJoYo on Sunday August 26, 2018 @06:38PM (#17848325)
I follow people on blacklisted instances and have no problems viewing their posts. Counter Social seems to be a walled garden but it suits their mission statement.

EDIT: the article mentions shitposter.club as a blacklisted instance. I've been following https://shitposter.club/moonman for years with only minor migration issues.

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Re:From GNU social to Mastodon by CharlesW on Sunday August 26, 2018 @10:20PM (#17849074)
> Counter Social seems to be a walled garden but it suits their mission statement.

It's not, but counter.social users are blacklisted by Mastodon folks who don't like how th3j35t3r[1] is running his Mastodon node.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jester_(hacktivist)

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Re:From GNU social to Mastodon by TheJoYo on Sunday August 26, 2018 @11:49PM (#17849323)
not entirely true. they prevent veiwing of posts from anonymous users. I have no doubts that the blacklisting isn't helping them debug that issue. I just keep an account on there and cross post when it's relavent.
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