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lunasorcery
@lunasorcery

In 2009, I join Twitter.
I make friends there.
I can see their posts.

Twitter has a Nazi problem.
I pre-emptively join Mastodon.
But I don’t really use it yet.

Elon Musk buys Twitter.
My friends start leaving.
I no longer see their posts.

I want to see my friends’ posts.


I find my friends again on Mastodon.
Now I have two apps to keep track of.
But I can see my friends’ posts again.

My instance admins get in a fight.
Friends’ instances defederate from mine.
I can no longer follow them, nor they me.
I am told about this by a friend who noticed.
There is no indication given by the software.
I am not notified of the connections I’ve lost.

I want to see my friends’ posts.


A friend invites me to their instance.
I accept, and migrate my profile across.
I re-follow missing friends I can remember.
And I can see my friends’ posts again.

A friend posts photos on her instance.
But those photos are not visible on mine.
Her profile appears, to me, devoid of images.
My new instance seemingly media-blocks hers.
There is no indication given by the software.


I just want to see my friends’ posts.

Am I wrong to want that?


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in reply to @lunasorcery's post:

the user experience of this was so awful and i'm sorry it happened to so many people. a great time for them to have fixed this would have been any time in the last 6-7 years, but at least it's getting some attention now.