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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 30-Mar-2023 03:22:17 JST Aral Balkan

   Folks, please do block brighteon.social from your servers. Looks like a US far-right misinformation/conspiracy site and they’re apparently ramping up with tens of thousands of bot accounts. Best to nip this in the bud early.

   If you don’t run your own #Mastodon/#fediverse server, please ask your server admin to do it for you by reporting them.

   (See https://mastodon.ar.al/@atomicpoet@mastodon.social/110107329975325472)

   #fediblock #brighteonSocial

   • Mark Davis (mark@colovo.com)'s status on Thursday, 30-Mar-2023 03:32:18 JST Mark Davis

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     @aral Just blocked them on my instance 👍

   • Denis Buckley (wellingtonrock@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 30-Mar-2023 04:24:13 JST Denis Buckley

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     @aral
     I don't know how to do this...

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 30-Mar-2023 04:24:13 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Denis Buckley

     @wellingtonrock Hey Denis, do you run your own Mastodon server? If not, just let your admin know. (Based on responses here, many servers already have them blocked.)

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 30-Mar-2023 04:44:50 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Cats Who Code 💙💛

     @calculsoberic 💕

   • Cats Who Code 💙💛 (calculsoberic@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 30-Mar-2023 04:44:51 JST Cats Who Code 💙💛

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     @aral done! thank you.

   • Dave Troy :toad: (davetroy@toad.social)'s status on Thursday, 30-Mar-2023 04:46:11 JST Dave Troy :toad:

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     @aral more substantiating information here on brighteon.social — the many ".news" sites listed here are also them.
     https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JIHe_RqyRVO9JR1yR7AqEYqcLg9uimidiiEcVnlDnbA/edit#gid=0

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 30-Mar-2023 04:46:11 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Dave Troy :toad:

     @davetroy Based on the responses, they’re apparently rather well known as a bad actor. But the recent increase in accounts is worrisome.

   • Lari Lohikoski (lari@suomi.social)'s status on Thursday, 30-Mar-2023 04:47:33 JST Lari Lohikoski

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     @aral Blocked it. Couple of days ago I noticed and blocked also 3zi.ru, which is posting toots for Russian propaganda channel RT. #fediblock

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 30-Mar-2023 04:49:19 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Lari Lohikoski

     @lari Confirmed and blocked, thank you :)

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 30-Mar-2023 14:19:30 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Tim Chambers

     @tchambers Thanks, Tim :)

   • Tim Chambers (tchambers@indieweb.social)'s status on Thursday, 30-Mar-2023 14:19:31 JST Tim Chambers

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     @aral Done and Done 💥

   • Swagpuss McG (swagpussc@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 30-Mar-2023 14:23:00 JST Swagpuss McG

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     • Gail Waldby

     @aral
     Erase the no-no people, save my snowflake heart boo boo! 😭
     @gwaldby

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 30-Mar-2023 14:23:00 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Gail Waldby
     • Swagpuss McG

     @swagpussc @gwaldby Sounds like excellent advice, thank you.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 30-Mar-2023 14:37:25 JST Aral Balkan

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     • jcypher

     @jcypher I am intolerant of fascism, yes. The real question is, why aren’t you?

   • jcypher (jcypher@infosec.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 30-Mar-2023 14:37:26 JST jcypher

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     @aral I do *not* think we should be censoring conservatives. Smearing conservatives by name-calling "far-right misinformation/conspiracy" just shows you to be intolerant. Better not to block them, unless you also want to block sources of leftist information (or to use your language, far-left misinformation/conspiracy).

     Besides, brighteon.social has tighter controls on who can join than infosec.exchange. Please provide proof for your assertion of bot infestation.