The @manjarolinux@botsin.space account on Mastodon that was mirroring the posts from @Manjarolinux on Twitter since 2018 was shut down without warning and I did not have time to migrate the account to another instance or notify the 1.7 k followers.
I was also running a duckduckgo bot. Somebody from the company contacted the admin of the instance and asked to use that bot as a starting point for their presence on Mastodon (something I clearly promised I would support in the profile of the account). But the admin immediately gave them control of my account without contacting me first. I told him politely that this is not how it should be done but he did not like me questioning his authority and terminated all my accounts, including @Manjarolinux.
No, it is the @duckduckgo@botsin.space account that was claimed by somebody associated with the company. they run it directly now. the @manjarolinux@botsin.space account was simply blocked as a retaliation on me from the admin. Collateral damage.
Not trying to argue, but it’s literally in the TOS. Just look at manjaro’s Twitter feed, and you can see a trigger there. Maybe in the future, @philm could split the feed between Manjaro “the company” from Manjaro “the software environment powerhouse”. Anyway, just my two cents.
EDIT: I spoke with the botsin.space admin yesterday, who told me that there was a conflict between him and the bot maintainer regarding code of conduct. There was evidence that the bot was showing spammy behaviour as well. I shared a screenshot with @mithrial, which can confirm the report. If anyone wants a screenshot of the conversation, DM me. I won’t post here because flaming is stupid.