Programmer and free/libre software enthusiast. This is my primary account on the Fediverse. See my website for an authoritative list of accounts.
https://jlamothe.net
@oiram15 It has to do with the way federation works. If nobody on instance A is following an account on instance B, the account on instance B’s posts won’t start showing up on instance A until that changes, and even then, it’ll only receive posts from that point forward. There are mitigating factors like boosts and relays, but that’s the gist of it.
@jasongreen I personally plan on blocking them, and have preemptively defederated on the self-hosted Friendica node I run, but I’m also not foolish enough to think that this will prevent them from scraping the fediverse for every last scrap of personal information they can.
@ddelony I keep forgetting about bboard. I should check it more often.
@CanadaPlus Are you looking to add a community from a remote instance? I too would like to be able to do this. I’ve got a couple Friendica groups I’d like to be able to follow from here.
I’ve heard good things about Hetzner, though I’d be remiss if I didn’t point out that SDF offers VPS services.