I created an account on mastodon.social a few days ago. A day after creation, my account was suspended. My appeal was denied and no reason was given. So I assumed mastodon.social was not accepting new accounts, so I moved over to mastodon.online and created an account there. Today that account was suspended as well, again without reason. I didn’t post anything from either account. My only actions were to follow a few people within tech.
Looking at previous posts here, people are laughing at complaints about difficulties of joining mastodon and pushing it away as a simple task. I have now attempted to join two of the highest suggested servers of mastodon and gotten suspended from both. I am uninterested in shotgunning servers until I find one which doesn’t suspend me without reason.
How is the onboarding process of mastodon supposed to work if the top suggested servers are suspending new accounts without warning or reason?
Take a good long look at your bot-ass username and then ask me again me why you think you’re getting suspended.
That is the Youtube link parameter for Rick Astley’s ‘Never Gonna Give You Up’. It’s understandable if Moderators unknowingly suspend an account thinking it is a bot due to such a username. But the lack of clarification or provision of reason for suspension is incompetence on their part.
An answer in very bad form
Back in the reddit days I used to frequent “banned from” subreddits. People there appreciate cold bluntness over fake politeness.