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We’re moving to a new city and the only community I can find for it is on #Facebook.
So, as much as I don’t want to, I decide to make a Facebook account again just to access this community…
(This is why communities must not be locked behind the walled gardens of surveillance capitalists. But even if we create fedi/Small Web alternatives, we still need to let the existing ones know they exist somehow.)
…Anyway, long story short, I can’t – they’ve #blacklisted my name :)
O hai, Mark! 
@aral Why would they blacklist someone who's obviously not a spammer, malicious user?
Did you use FB to criticise them?
@samebchase Oh, some folks over there don’t like me too much (with good reason, mind you, and the feeling’s mutual) ;)
@aral I'm surprised they have the time and energy to spitefully block/prevent you from using it.
@samebchase All it takes is one pissed off engineer with the correct permissions and a database entry – it’s really not that much hassle ;)
Although there might just be a cautionary tale in this somewhere about trusting our all our public spaces to corporate entities…
(Or, in other words, about privitasing all public space so we have none left.)