Tip for people seeing friends join counter.social -- it is not a good fediverse neighbor! Myself and a bunch of other admins blocked it a couple years ago because the people who were running it were unfriendly to the point of abusive!
They admit to some of this in their own FAQ: https://counter.social/faq.html
Get your friends on good servers. 💚
(Like here, for example! I'll send an invite code to anyone, and any Shop member can make invites)
Oh, Good Gravy I'd forgotten those yahoos even existed. 🙄
@xenophora saaaame but a lot of people are signing up for them with today's kerfluffle
@phildini
Wow, how absolutely... uh, interesting.
"No foreign influence ops"?
For real? How can they be sure? ...and how exactly do they DEFINE "foreign influence ops"?
Looks like an oppressive, paranoid place to me. You might as well be on Twitter as on counter.social
@phildini
Ohhh, christ... what an goddamn oppressive, godawful spot.
Run away.
RUN AWAAAAAYYYY!
@phildini I'm not sure I'd agree geoblocking is abusive, but I don't know enough of the related context.