this post was submitted on 04 Jun 2023
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When you follow a user or group, that is a request that the originating instance send messages from that group or user to your instance. However, if that group or user is banned from your instance, your instance will not accept the messages.
If the remote instance is blocked entirely, you won't be able to fetch content from there at all in order to subscribe in the first place, and your messages won't be forwarded along to that instance. A server block means that the two websites are no longer communicating with each other.