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this post was submitted on 24 Feb 2026
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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.