Post #2752968

2026-04-20 05:23 UTC

@hastingsmothman@mastodon.green @ORIOliver@newsie.social @JohanEmpa@mastodon.green Since you are asking so nicely, I'll give my understanding: Once the mastodon.cloud instance has been 'defederated' from our server, you will not be seeing any posts originating from users registered on mastodon.cloud, nor will they see yours. Reason for defederation is that the moderators on mastodon.cloud are not keeping it secure and spammer-free.

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@hastingsmothman@mastodon.green 2026-04-20 05:26

@markus_quandt@mastodon.green @ORIOliver@newsie.social @JohanEmpa@mastodon.green Thanks so much. Mastodon.cloud being the entirety of mastodon ... or just one instance within in? Forgive my ignorance. I know nothing about anything technical. I don't even know what Mastodon.cloud is. I am just on here, posting about moths. In other words, if I do nothing here on Mastodon.green will I lose everyone and everything on Mastodon?

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@ORIOliver@newsie.social 2026-04-20 05:33

@markus_quandt@mastodon.green @hastingsmothman@mastodon.green @JohanEmpa@mastodon.green When you say 'our server' do you mean 'our instance', which is mastodon.green? If so I finally get it. Each instance can choose to block (you say defederate) any other instance its host doesn't think is run properly?

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