@zlax yes, I've noticed. I've been blocked already by a number of large instances for questing the narratives.
I've been on the Fediverse since before the arrival of Mastodon, which brought the mass into the Fediverse. The problem, however, is that it has decentralized censorship, putting the means of moderation in the hands of individual instances, often administered in an extremely ideological way. The Fediverse today is extremely fragmented, with regions not communicating at all because we are full of instances blocking others. Echo chambers to the nth degree.
But people are fooled into registering in an instance without knowing what moderation really is and probably will never notice they are in the echo chamber of some admins.
I reply to some users and they will never see my messages and I have no way to know if this is the case or they see them and choose not to reply. This can be really confusing for new users, most admins know it but their ideologies justify it.
It is more than dysfunctional, this is a fraud.
