I just found out tonight that, for the first time in my internet life, I’ve been #blocked. I’ve been missing the voice of a #Mastodon friend for a while, and assumed she had jumped completely over to #Bluesky. Haven’t been seeing her posts.
After subbing to her blog, which she just restarted, I got confirmation in a post that she’s spending a lot of time on Mastodon again. Hooray! So I looked at her linked profile (she jumps profiles a lot), and it shows that she has me blocked.
I hope it’s an accident, because I don’t know if I said or did anything. There was no discussion. I feel hurt.
But that’s the beauty and the cruelty of the #fediverse; you can mute and/or block any account for any reason or no reason at all, and you don’t have to justify it. You’re in control of your relationships; you curate your social graph. You are in charge of your own experience.
I hope I didn’t say anything untoward to cause her to cut me out. I like her; she’s one of the reasons I keep clicking “refresh”. I miss her. If she doesn’t want my posts in her feed, that’s her prerogative. I’m sad about it, but she has agency.
Hope she’s doing well.