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?
