Bird.makeup user count dropped from 10150 to 9900 today, I guess a big instance just banned the whole domain?
@vincent
How weird! Why would they do that? And can you find out who that is?
I'd move instance if that happened!!!
@vincent looks like my instance has suspended bird.makeup
What’s the reason?
@mrcippy @spicyeddie @vincent My guess would be this in their code of conduct: “Uncurated news bots posting from third-party news sources”
@appforce1 @spicyeddie @vincent
That’s lame af
@mrcippy @spicyeddie @vincent All the more reason not to be on an instance if its rules are not agreeable. (One can even start a single person instance, like yours.)
@appforce1 @spicyeddie @vincent
Yup! So glad I own my experience.
@mrcippy @spicyeddie @vincent Is it self deployed or are you using a hosting provider like masto.host?
@appforce1 @spicyeddie @vincent @jareddipane
I have it running on a Pi 4 in my basement. No monthly costs. Just the domain 1x a year.
@mrcippy @spicyeddie @vincent @jareddipane @That's you! I didn't connect the dots. 🤦♂️
@vincent Sadly, apparently techhub.social did the same. :( I'm so incredibly bummed. Wondering if I can migrate to a new instance that this won't happen on..
The upside of this is that we get to hit 10k users twice lol