Is your mastodon instance federated yet? He pretty much on his own lobbied the respective admins to federate his instance with hexbear. If not then that would be my best guess.

[–] pooh@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That’s probably it.

[–] PRNE@weatherishappening.network 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@pooh @timconspicuous you need to connect to more instances over there. Yes you will find more than a few state department addled libs but that's just more fodder for the dunk tank. I can tell you for damned sure there are plenty of more ideologically friendly, actually left people of various stripes on other Mastodon instances too.

[–] PRNE@weatherishappening.network 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The only asterisk I would add to this is that there are certain limits to interoperability (sorry about the @s for example I need to remember to manually delete them) so it requires patience and willingness to deal with that. Also for example I can't title posts, am subject to my instance's character limit, and can't see your emojis or images without going offsite. But as a rather ML leaning, Chapo enjoying former member of DSA and the Fraternal Order of Saint Bernard I am happy to say hi here

[–] PRNE@weatherishappening.network 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

But also somewhat tempted to make an alt and not have to deal with the annoyances. My laziness and lack of desire for a billion accounts has thusfar stopped me

[–] PRNE@weatherishappening.network 4 points 2 years ago

But only having recently discovered this place I find it seems full of people on precisely precisely the same nightmare journey I'm on and that's neat. I can't be the only one who would like to connect

[–] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

I have had no luck.