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#Mastoadmin #fediadmin

Sometime at the beginning of December, all of a sudden, traffic to and from my little single-user instance dropped to nil. The Federated Timeline, which used to fly by much too quickly, now barely moves at all.

I've checked my relays - both of them state they're running fine and no filtering to me or my instance.

I've kept my code up to date - no security issues with my instance that I am aware of.

So I need to ask the questions:
1) Is the badplace thing back?
2) Have my disagreements in discussions with other admins over whether moderation should be global or local landed me on some other "naughty list" I am unaware of? If so, what's this one called?
3) Has the way smaller instances interact with the greater Fediverse changed in some way I missed?

Thanks in advance for any light you all may be able to shed on this issue.

#mastoadmin #fediadmin
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steve mookie kong
steve mookie kong
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This reached my single user instance, so traffic seems to be getting out of your instance okay.
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Paul Chambers
Paul Chambers
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@mookie I see it on my self-hosted instance, also.
@steve mookie kong
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Paul Chambers
Paul Chambers
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@mookie With that said, there are a lot of ddns.net instances and if larger instances decided to block that top level domain name, yours would be blocked too.
@steve mookie kong
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Some Internet Person ✡︎ :ally:
Some Internet Person ✡︎ :ally:
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@paul @mookie

That's a fair observation. One of these days I'll get myself a "real" domain name.. but for now, while I'm making less than $20/hr US, this will have to do.

@Paul Chambers @steve mookie kong
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steve mookie kong
steve mookie kong
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@paul

Have you tried signing up on the larger instances (mastodon.social, mstdn.social and infosec.exchange come to mind) to follow yourself and send test messages? That's a large drop in traffic, so if one of the larger instances defederated you, that could be it.

@Paul Chambers
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Some Internet Person ✡︎ :ally:
Some Internet Person ✡︎ :ally:
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@mookie @paul

Infosec.exchange is one of my relays, now, yes. The other two I have not, no. I'll look for it. Thanks.

@Paul Chambers @steve mookie kong
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m@thias.hellqui.st :verified-skull:
m@thias.hellqui.st :verified-skull:
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FWIW: as @mookie (who I follow) replied to you (who I don’t follow) your post also reached my single-user instance.
@steve mookie kong
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steve mookie kong
steve mookie kong
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@m
Oh the complicated web of followings we have on the fediverse :)
@m@thias.hellqui.st :verified-skull:
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m@thias.hellqui.st :verified-skull:
m@thias.hellqui.st :verified-skull:
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Or you refer to the fact that you and I literally follow each other on every Fediverse service ever built in a criss-cross-pattern that NASA is still trying to figure out? 😆

Personally I think NASA still are 3 accounts behind on where you currently are active.

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