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  • Kristianz428@social.lol
    Aug 18, 2026, 5:56 PM

    @hiphopheaven Signed up for the platform in 2018 I think. Had a few hundreds of contacts, a few hundreds of pictures on there. Somehow got into dansups way at some point, which resulted in his as well as the pixelfed account blocking me back then. Used to post one last picture on pixelfed stating that I am not using the account anymore for these reasons, not particularly rude in words - which resulted in my whole account being gone like ten minutes later. None of the pixelfed folks responded on the Fediverse, however dansup on Bluesky claimed I deleted my account by myself and now am starting to blame him and stated he has logfiles to prove that. Well what do you know. Remembering this, I am still close to being enraged because of losing all the pictures and the memories linked to them back then, even though knowing no one on the Fediverse owes anyone anything but it did for sure teach me a lesson about using pixelfed.social or anything related to it.

    @andrewblasco@masto.es @vernissage @andrewblasco@luzeed.org

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  • hiphopheavenhiphopheaven@mastodon.social
    Aug 18, 2026, 5:58 PM

    @z428 While stuck right now. I still try alternatives so far monnett which is not part of the fediverse is where I had the most success

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  • veroandiveroandi@mastodon.social
    Aug 18, 2026, 9:03 PM

    @z428 @hiphopheaven @andrewblasco

    Oh no! Did he delete your account from his instance just because you criticised him? Honestly, that's even worse than him blocking your account on his personal account. Disagreeing with an instance admin isn't listed as a reason for deletion in his server rules. 😶
    It's also against GDPR and many similar laws - every citizen has the right to obtain a copy of their data, but he deleted your accounts and photos arbitrarily. 🥺

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  • Kristianz428@social.lol
    Aug 19, 2026, 5:30 AM

    @veroandi I don't know what exactly happened and there's hardly a chance of proving anything. I have no other explanation than him or someone administering pixelfed.social deleting my account, like, 10..15mins after my last post there. And ... I was extremely disappointed as well as confused by that, still am when thinking about it (also about losing all the images, the thoughts, the scarce conversations on it). It's a rabbit hole of thoughts and topics but I guess, mainly, it, for me, boils down to two learnings. First one being: Specifically on the Fediverse where most of the systems are driven by single individuals, it's very much about having a relationship of trust to this person, and dansup, put as neutrally as somewhat possible, has proven over and over again that he is in no way whatsoever trustworthy so the only conclusion here is to just stay miles at least from anything he is in administrative or moderation charge of. Like, not generally staying away from pixelfed or loops but staying away from those instances of these software he runs. The other one, unfortunately, is ... talking migration, lock-in and vote-with-your-feet and I ... still see the Fediverse has a lot of room for improvements here, most likely also a lot of need for that. Pixelfed does a particularly poor job when it comes to this, but all other platforms are just slightly better. Guess for now best to do is be very careful which instance to pick and where to stay, and pray that it will not go away or turn bad anytime soon (or be blocked by others). And have a fallback plan, a backup, or an external source of data in place to prevent that kind of things from being bad once they show up. It's really really disheartening on closer look, and it leaves open more questions than it answers. 😬

    @hiphopheaven @andrewblasco

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