@chriswheatley@mastodonapp.uk @paul try to follow any of them back and if you can’t, your server has blocked bird.makeup
As I said, it is common for sysops to silence them. The mastodon.social sysop does.
No. Most of my experience is that places do.
Personally, I follow the dictum that if I want Twitter, I know where it is.
So I don't try to get it through third-party robot mirrors to somewhere else that isn't Twitter. I just go to #Twitter. (-:
@chriswheatley
bird.makeup accounts are, remember, not actual people, let alone the specific people that they purport to be, but a third party who is mirroring Twitter content into the FediVerse. Usually the WWW sites are running a piece of software named BirdSITELive, or one of its derivatives.
There are a bunch of such third-party Twitter mirrors around, and it is common for sysops to silence them.
https://joinfediverse.wiki/FediBlock#Bots_Blocklist
#FediBlock #FediTips
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