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Note to hachyderm.io users, who can't see this on their server (which I'm mentioning because another one just asked me about it):

the hachyderm admins blocked me personally - if you try to follow me from hachyderm, it lies and tells you this account is "suspended" - and i still have no idea why

coincidentally Nivenly, the company running hachyderm, got into an AI grift and I loudly called it an AI grift. This suggests the reasons are simple and commercial.

they have apparently denied that their AI grift was the reason but haven't said what the reason was

and they haven't contacted me at all and certainly nobody is paying me enough to bother to contact these weirdos

it's a mastodon feature: forum admins with poster's madness

so basically find a non-shitty server or spin up an akkoma yourself

feel free to copy and forward this as appropriate

edit: there was apparently a bug raised, and i'm definitely not wasting my time attempting communication with these circumlocutious scammy sounding weirdos. Perhaps you will wish to. github.com/hachyderm/community

edit 2: it's their feudal pissheap and they're allowed not to like me! that they lie that my account is "suspended" and go into sub-GPT blathering when asked why is, I submit, a good reason to reevaluate hitching your wagon to their hungover seaside donkey

What would you like to discuss with us or let us know? I have been following David Gerard's written work regarding cryptocurrency and AI hype in addition to other rot-economu issues for some time. ...
GitHub@davidgerard@circumstances.run shows "account suspended" from hachyderm.io · Issue #579 · hachyderm/communityBy huronbikes

@tim you're a random driveby, I'm not paid enough to care about you either

@davidgerard @tim you can’t just make such a bold claim on faith alone and a lack of details

@jenzi @davidgerard @tim Which is ironic, considering how little information the hachyderm mod team are prepared to share on this matter.

“He violated our Community Standards.”

“Which one?”

“Not telling.”

I run a programming-focussed alt account on hachyderm, and contribute to the upkeep of the instance. I thought hachyderm were largely sane and stable. I *really* don’t want to have to move instances *again*…

@utterfiction @davidgerard @tim No one is asking about that. There is a claim they are running a grift but without saying what it is. I gave up caring about it.