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this post was submitted on 24 Feb 2026
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does anyone know why fosstodon seems to be blocked on piefed.social?
There was drama last year because the (or one?) moderator of fosstodon is a fascist.
That's unfortunate. I understand the admin's perspective, but most users, myself included, are likely in the dark about these backend issues. It’s frustrating to have barriers to following people in an already small community. Is this just the inevitable tradeoff of federation? If anyone knows of a less regulated piefed instance, I’m all ears.
Not being able to follow someone isn't a federation problem, it's an instance mismatch problem.
When you can't follow the people you want on Twitter (because they were banned), that's an instance mismatch. Your preferences don't align with Twitter's.
The difference is that, with Twitter, there is only one instance. You can't switch to a different Twitter where those people aren't blocked.
On Fedi, you can choose an instance that blocks and federates according to your preference. And if you can't find one (unlikely for most users), you can host your own.
If you just want Piefed instances with less regulation, these appear to have the fewest number of blocks:
As far as I can tell piefed.ca seems to be less regulated than piefed.social
it's a tradeoff you're choosing to accept by using piefed; it literally had other fediverse instances blocking hard coded in its source.
i hate letting anyone decide who i can and can't talk to so i chose instances with minimal blocking set by default and you might want to consider it if letting others decide for you is causing you this sort of consternation.
Pretty sure both of the original admins of Fosstodon stepped downed.
Yeah, I think it's reasonably run and invite-only now, so the ban should probably be lifted. @Skavau@piefed.social , something to consider? :)
@rimu@piefed.social This would have been a rimu decision.
PieFed.social has not intentionally defederated from fosstodon - piefed.social automatically defederates from any instance that lemmy.world or mastodon.social defederates from. That way I don't need to keep up with the latest fedi drama and just trust those admin teams to.
In this case, it's lemmy.world.
I'll ask around and see what the latest on fosstodon is and see if lemmy.world wants to federate with them again.
@Skavau@piefed.social @cabbage@piefed.social
Good news. The old fosstodon admins resigned and they have a new team and a good code of conduct.
I have added new functionality to PieFed so it's now possible to override an automatically imported defederation and now piefed.social federates with fosstodon.org.
thanks for the update!
Lemmy.world has removed their defed too 👍
This is what federation actually is. Admins investing their free time to make people happy instead of money driven moderation which is not able to stop e.g. human trafficking.
Thanks for your work @rimu@piefed.social !