on the internet, individual nodes can go down and that's okay. the network will typically re-route around those automatically, and it's one of the thing's greatest strengths
on mastodon, individual nodes will block or suspend random-ass people / other instances, and the only thing you can do about it is pack up your whole fuckin life and move elsewhere, until another dipshit repeats it there / with another instance you're on, if you can even find a single instance that isn't part of this tangled network of arbitrary blocks/suspends (spoiler: you can't)
as much shit as i give bluesky and people who moved there, i sure as hell can't recommend mastodon or "the fediverse". sorry, a single government drone joined internet.farts, we're shutting that whole thing down for you. you had friends there? too bad. moderation is hard so we're outsourcing all of our instance admin to dramawarehou.se. you mean that might have been a bad actor all along? sacre bleu
absolute fucking joke
