On 2024-05-06 19:33:00 William Morder via tde-users wrote:
On Monday 06 May 2024 17:15:57 J Leslie Turriff via tde-users wrote:
Okay. I can't see that page anymore because it gets redirected to my "suspension notice" page. I'll try explaining why the account was inactive and hope that they'll recind the suspension.
Leslie
I don't actually use Mastodon, just like I never used Twitter before it, don't use X, etc. However, do they require real names, full names, etc.?
I have to confess, I don't remember Mastodon's name requirements, but I think that that misguided requirement is peculiar to Meta. I only created the tde@floss.social account because the admins were adding it and it doesn't "lock you in" the way Facebook does.
Is it possible just to go to a different place and create a new account with a new identity?
I don't know that either, but the suspension notice does say "...we will retain some basic data to prevent you from evading the suspension," which suggests that the answer is no.
If not, then I will probably never use any disservice like them.
It does look pretty bad, but Michelle has given me an email contact point, so I will try to get it resolved.
Bill
After creating the Mastodon account I looked at tde@floss.social for a few days but there wasn't any activity to speak of, and then I pretty much forgot about it until recently when some posts on the list made it apparent that a lot of stuff that I would have expected to appear in the Announcements list were happening on Mastodon, and I was missing a lot of traffic. That's how I found out that my account is suspended (presumably for lack of activity, but that's just a guess). Like Facebook, once one has been suspended, there is no way to find support/contact information.
Leslie -- Platform: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.5 - x86_64 Desktop Environment: Trinity Qt: 3.5.0 TDE: R14.1.2 tde-config: 1.0