Mastodon.art (11.7k users - NOT 17k users) blocked the sneak.berlin instance (1 user) because you wandered into the Admin's mentions and tagged other members of the instance to call them "rude as fuck" and lectured them on how to moderate their own instance when they announced other additions to the block list.
Now, looking through your instance, I don't see anything especially problematic that would make you unpopular to the Fediverse, but just from your attitude towards other Instance admins and your disengenous argument about your value to another instance's users makes me feel as though this suspension was 100% justified.
One of the fundamental purposes of Mastodon is to keep communities niche while curbing abuse. One of the fundamental benefits of Mastodon is that most of the polite instances get to participate in each other's conversations.
But you were not polite, and you harassed and insulted the people who run another instance, and while you would like to pretend that the problem you have here is that those 11.7k people no longer get to see your content, the real problem you have is that your bad behavior has permanently locked you out of 11.7k accounts that you proved yourself too impolite and meddling to be allowed to interact with anymore.
This isn't a flaw of the Fediverse, it's a feature. The system worked as it was supposed to. A rude person was made to shut up, and the users of the Mastodon.art instance won't even feel the loss of your single-account instance that isn't about art.
And this isn't even scratching the surface of the prevalence of far-right/Nazi instances that brigade people and launch harassment campaigns that fundamentally justify the use of these moderation tools.
Funny thing about mastodon.art, they block instances just for federating with other blocked instances, do not communicate the block to the admins of said instances, and even block "instances" that do not exist and never existed based on made up reasons.
It's interesting that you think that another Mastodon instance admin has any control of what thousands of people are "allowed to read". Your website is still online, isn't it?
You didn't get censored, you got disciplined for your behavior on a network you don't own. If the members of the instance that blocked you want to see your content, they can visit your instance directly. If they want to interact with you they can join another instance, or create their own.
Your free speech ends where mine begins online. Act however you want on your own server, but don't play victim when others decide that they don't wish to accommodate you.
MAJOR EDIT:
Looks like literally hundreds of instances have you suspended, and it is very justified.
My complaint is not that others don't wish to read me; my complaint is that others (instance admins) are deciding for thousands of others who have never met them what content they are allowed to choose to read.
You seem to have conflated the two.
Imagine if an email host started dropping all of your outbound emails to a certain domain, silently, without notifying you.
That would be a bad email server, and that admin's decision should be criticized.
Mastodon.art (11.7k users - NOT 17k users) blocked the sneak.berlin instance (1 user) because you wandered into the Admin's mentions and tagged other members of the instance to call them "rude as fuck" and lectured them on how to moderate their own instance when they announced other additions to the block list.
Source: https://s.sneak.berlin/@sneak/103307407459883859
Now, looking through your instance, I don't see anything especially problematic that would make you unpopular to the Fediverse, but just from your attitude towards other Instance admins and your disengenous argument about your value to another instance's users makes me feel as though this suspension was 100% justified.
One of the fundamental purposes of Mastodon is to keep communities niche while curbing abuse. One of the fundamental benefits of Mastodon is that most of the polite instances get to participate in each other's conversations.
But you were not polite, and you harassed and insulted the people who run another instance, and while you would like to pretend that the problem you have here is that those 11.7k people no longer get to see your content, the real problem you have is that your bad behavior has permanently locked you out of 11.7k accounts that you proved yourself too impolite and meddling to be allowed to interact with anymore.
This isn't a flaw of the Fediverse, it's a feature. The system worked as it was supposed to. A rude person was made to shut up, and the users of the Mastodon.art instance won't even feel the loss of your single-account instance that isn't about art.
And this isn't even scratching the surface of the prevalence of far-right/Nazi instances that brigade people and launch harassment campaigns that fundamentally justify the use of these moderation tools.