Damn, I can only can block users, not instances. Thanks though!

What/where is the meatball menu please?

That is possible as well. Those firewalls are capable of packet inspection. If you are using personal devices it won’t be able to see much if you are using encryption in transit but if you are using University provided machines there is a good chance they can inspect all the data you are sending and receiving.

This is considered world news?!?

Are you hosting a service that is not under your organizations official domain or something? It is common security practice to block newly created domains which may be why your domain is blacklisted if you only recently stood it up.

Sounds like your university is using a Palo Alto Next Gen Firewall which is intercepting DNS requests and responding with the sinkhole FQDN for anything they deem malicious or suspicious. You can try to override this with DNS over HTTPS but they may also be blocking that. Standard security stuff. You can also probably try to open an IT ticket and request that they whitelist the domain.

I started this way but I’ve been in my field for a few years and now I can’t tell if I’m pretty good or if everyone else is just terrible.

Oh man, I wanted that phone so freaking bad!

I hate when only one wheel works!

Did you have to do anything special to start one? I just tried and I keep getting an error: {“error”:“rate_limit_error”} when I hit create.

Well that blows up my theory. Best of luck with everything.

I can feel this reply. Cheers to a better weekend!

Are they comments on particular instances? I think with federation you can see more than you can interact with sometimes. It’s a bit frustrating.

I’m perfectly fine with this sort of hierarchy as the mainstream platforms inevitably become terrible.

It’s best to assume everything you add to the internet is never deleted. That is the much more likely scenario.