Hetzner requires ID these days, not sure if it’s for all new accounts or based on some sketchy algorithm but it’s happened to more than one person I know.

Comments are very normal as usual:

I posted a cool clip from the UFC and got banned even though the content had a warning. It wasnt even that violent just a clean headkick ko.

If I started an instance it would get defederated because people would take one look and assume its toxic. But its not, Im not, I’ve spend years in the leftie techie activist spaces and cause no issues.

Don’t worry, the checkpoint outside your house is just to make sure you don’t have any nefarious intentions

Labour criticizing a Conservative policy for being too lenient towards asylum seekers… wishing a very merry “trafficked into slavery” to all these home secretaries and their families.