Notices tagged with fediblock, page 3

Can't stay quiet about this as much as I don't like namedropping or any kind of blaming even when there is a reason. But there is this one Mastodon admin who refuses to take any responsibility of his server. He literally said on other social site: "I'm not doing anything about it, just writing this comment is too much trouble for that shit."

I confonted him and said: "So you want to give free server capacity to criminals and spammers. Because quite a few vulnerabilities have come out since 4.1.4. So you want to let the spambots continue their work in peace? Good luck with that 🫡"

He answered "Yes" and blocked me. This is disturbing to say the least. Don't know how to react.

You should probably defederate mastodo.fi.

Source (in Finnish): https://www.threads.net/@tero.ojala/post/C3nueFKICzw

#MastodoFi #FediBlock #MastoAdmin

#fediblock yuavibez @ bitbang.social

I've got some important news that we all need to know about. Recently, I've found out that one of the members of bitbang.social has been up to no good – they're a groomer, a CSAM-addict, and manipulator who's
caused harm in the past. Even though their account might be inactive now, it's crucial for everyone to block them immediately.

Unfortunately, the admins of bitbang.social, where this individual operates from, have failed to take any action against their wrongdoings. It's understandable that these issues can be complex and require a moderation process, but we cannot sit by while minors are possibly being exploited and groomed in our community.

I know some of you are wondering why this person hasn't been banned already, well sometimes things take time. The admins of some instances are already aware of the situation and taking actions. As a matter of fact, you might possibly see the account be blocked in your instance. The admins of Bigbang.social, though, seem not to have taken action yet.

In the meantime, fediblocking this individual is a simple action we can all take to keep ourselves and our community safe. No other child will ever undergo the things some of my friends had to go through. The fediverse is no place for pedophiles.

This person has engaged in some pretty nasty activities, like using pillows for self-pleasure in front of kids, grooming an 11-year-old into exposing their private parts, distributing Lolicon content (which involves child exploitation), luring individuals into situations they didn't want to be in if you know what I mean, and defaming four people that I know of, including victims of their sexual abuse.

If you want to keep the fediverse safe, PLEASE take a minute to block this individual from your instance, especially if there are minors.

@chad
It looks to me like genderheretics.xyz is entirely a troll server.
#fediblock for sure.

Hmm interesting to see the #Misskey instance nijimiss.moe doing a full #fediblock against our instance. I was trying to fetch this Chen fanart but it was failing for some reason. I thought at first that we blocked them due to the Japanese spam, but turns out it was them blocking us. I thought about contacting them but it seems like they aren't targetting us but rather they're just blocking everything not based in #Japan (I see mastodon.social, shonk.social, mastodon.art, heck even tilde.zone getting blocked too by this instance). :sagume_think:

Oh well, I guess Japanese admins are really just very careful about the #GDPR or whatever... :cirnoShrug: I just wanted my #touhou #fanart in my TL, goddammit #EU :cirno_cry:

#fediblockmeta

Hallo alle Fedi-Admins die Probleme mit Spam haben!

Ich habe heute den gesamten Tag an einer Spam-Liste gearbeitet und 65 Instanzen herausgefunden welche mit dem Spam nicht aufgehört haben! Ich habe die Instanzen in einer Liste zusammengestellt welche diese stummschaltet, nicht deföderiert:

Downloaded die Liste hier.

Anleitung und Erklärung zur Liste.

Ist diese Liste importiert ist ein Großteil des Spams vorbei. Das ganze ist für euch leicht, geht mit einem klick! Zudem wird keinerlei Instanz für immer geblockt, keinerlei Follower etc. zerstört oder deföderiert, sondern nur stummgeschaltet. Das ist sehr leicht umkehrbar.

Ihr könnet diese Liste einfach importieren, indem ihr auf https://yourinstance.tld/admin/export_domain_blocks/new geht und yourinstance.tld durch die Domain derer Instanz ersetzt, von der ihr der Administrator seid!

Alternativ könnt ihr auch auf Einstellungen => Moderation => Föderation => Importieren drücken, um diese Liste zu importieren.

Beachtet, dass zwar alle Instanzen mit einem Klick importiert werden können, dass aber diese Instanzen einzeln entfernt werden müssen, wenn der Spam vorbei ist.

Beachtet auch, dass es nur Sinn ergibt, diese Liste zu importieren und die Spam-Instanzen stumm zu schalten, wenn ihr euren Spam lokal und nachhaltig blockiert habt, wie hier beschrieben.

Auf ein Spam-Freies Fediverse :apartyblobcat: !

#MastoAdmins #FediBlock #Spam #Spamwelle #Fedimins #FediAdmin #FediAdmins FediAdminDE

Hello all Fedi Admins who have problems with spam!

I have been working on a spam list all day today and found 65 instances that have not stopped spamming! I have compiled the instances into a list which mutes them, and does not defederate from them:

Download the list here.

Instructions and Explanation of the List.

Once this list is imported, most of the spam is gone. The whole thing is easy for you, with just one click! In addition, no instance is blocked forever, no followers etc. are destroyed or defollowed, only muted. This is very easy to reverse.

You can simply import this list by going to https://yourinstance.tld/admin/export_domain_blocks/new and replacing yourinstance.tld with the domain of the instance you are the administrator of!

Alternatively, you can also click on Settings => Moderation => Federation => Import to import this list.

Note that although all instances can be imported with one click, these instances must be removed individually when the spam is over.

Also note that it only makes sense to import this list and mute the spam instances if you have blocked your spam locally and permanently, as described here.

Here's to a spam-free Fediverse :apartyblobcat: !

#MastoAdmins #FediBlock #Spam #Spamwave #Fedimins #FediAdmin #FediAdmins FediAdminEN

@mint@ryona.agency @grips@cawfee.club I totally forgot that was a thing. I joined the GitHub protest too lmfao #fediblock #fediblockmeta #fediadmins #fediadmin #mastoadmin #mastoadmins #spam #cybercrime #cybersec #infosec

#fediblock #fediblockmeta #fediadmins #fediadmin #mastoadmin #mastoadmins #spam

RE: https://tuusin.misono-ya.info/objects/3c7fa9bb-678c-4cbe-9b55-4670bf9d30d9

I'm doing some funny OSINT stuff and... I have found some funny stuff.

I looked him up on Google, Found a Discord report about him with his real email attached.

Looked up his email, and found a post on the ctkpaarr forums (the one he's advertising the discord) of him being currently flamed for this current ongoing incident.

The best part? He bought the script using a PayPal account. With his real name and identity.

He is a real skid. He just bought an off-the-shelf script and decided to piss off a lot of people, even the dude he bought it from with his antics. Bro snitched on himself and his entire community LMEOW

For the sake of my own job, my rep and legal security I'm not gonna tell where exactly I found this, but you guys can find it yourself. Figure it out.

This guy is making me dying out of laughter 💀 Our team @hq is hysterical right now at this horrible opsec.

Don't be a skid, kids. #osint #spam #fediadmins #cybersec #opsec #misskeyadmin #mastoadmin #fediblock

RE: https://fedi.fyralabs.com/notes/9pr6thyvz5

With talks of bridges right now I think it’s worth noting that if you don’t have nostr relays blocked right now, you really should consider it. It’s crypto nazi hell. It’s a software built atop of crypto, and is used by freeze peachers as it is as a protocol inherently based on block evasion. There are lists of currently maintained relays that are publicly available. #fediblock

Block this dickhead too while you’re at it (you don’t have to ask him for permission to do so, it’s ok.)

👇

#FediBlock #consent https://noauthority.social/@stormbringer/111924018474352907

#FediBlock snarfed.org and brid.gy for bridging fediverse folks to Bluesky against their will (and in likely contravention of GDPR in the EU) with typical Silicon Valley techbro sense of entitlement:

“[O]pt in results in far fewer users, and users are critical for a bridge to be useful.”¹

Relevant GitHub issue: https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/835

¹ https://snarfed.org/2023-11-27_re-introducing-bridgy-fed

HT @homegrown

#bridgy #snarfed #fediverse #mastodon #bluesky #bridging #optOut #optIn #consent #gdpr #eu #SiliconValley #techbros

A good way to find fascists to block and report is to look at this post’s responses 🙃 https://mastodon.xyz/@nextcloud/111822202348658157

:boost_love: #Fediblock

It’s so grating how the lesson of #fediblock and such still hasn’t been learned/intuited by a majority of furry fandom yet. Everyone’s so quick to jump on the soapbox and complain about ineffectiveness of applying broad-sweeping blocklists when they’re negatively impacted by it, and try to speak in a noble manner of morals and principles. Yet, typically in barely a few posts/days later, are still defending much of it as a necessity to ‘solve the Nazi problem’, when it does absolutely nothing of the sort. Blocking “Nazis” (whereas that term is used in such a broad spectrum from: actual non-sockpuppet neo-Nazis, to ‘people I disagree with’, that it makes it meaningless) does not make them disappear, it’s no more than the logic of a child hiding under their bedsheets hoping for the imagined monster to go away.

If you look back into history of the fediverse, even back before ActivityPub became a thing (back in OStatus days): it’s a pattern where a lot of the heavily blocked instances ended up continuing to live on, while the over-moderated instances killed themselves off by crippling their user’s ability to intercommunicate per overprotective moderation. In fact, in the present day it’s where a lot of the ‘most active’ fediverse instances are the most blocked, and yet fediblock puts very little of any dent in it. You know what happens when you list an instance in a fediblock list? You irrevocably start to put them in the “banned” side of the fediverse, the space where people don’t have to walk on eggshells nor try to soften their words to appease the sensitivities of the more overmoderated instances.

On the “banned” side, there’s no point to try to cater to the fediblock crowd anymore, because that’s already been irrevocably severed. If you’re listed once, it’s just blindly recirculated to other lists, and never resolvable. So instead of “keeping the Nazis out”, whereas the practices of fediblock–you’re actually pushing more people to ‘that side’ of the internet, and causing the opposite of whatever ‘social justice’ endeavor you’re on. I’ve actually made far more genuine and authentic friends from fedi than I have from Discord and Telegram by far, majority of friends which are on the ‘banned’ side, versus being around the people that’ll ditch out from you at the moment of getting any ‘cancel culture’ labeling.

I almost feel bad for these people that wrap themselves so deep into such fleeting, fickle online associations (usually also chasing after parasocial relationships too). Always so quick to startle, offend, or whatever. The ever-moving ‘chase’ of jumping from Twitter, to fedi, to Bluesky just to ‘not literally be in a Nazi bar’, like some neverending Scooby-Doo monster chase scene. What is so staggering and harmful in witnessing word choices you disagree with? You can just shrug it off, ignore, and move about your day. It’s no surprise that anxiety disorders are so profoundly ubiquitous in the present, if people can’t de-condition themselves from going panic mode in stumbling across something they weren’t expecting. But yet people believe it’s a responsibility to hide any level of provoking content, as if it’s “protecting” them, instead of realizing it grows their phobias.

A fediverse server is not a private Discord guild, it is not a Telegram group, it’s to be handled as internet infrastructure like an email server, a backbone router, etc–you don’t interfere with legitimate traffic just because you disagree with differing viewpoints or lexicon, otherwise you greatly reduce the effectiveness of the network and just push people back to centralized services. If you want a moderated community then start a centralized forum, a chat server, or any other variety of closed-space communities.

If you routinely have problems being a center of negative attention, then: stop virtue signaling, stop acting as ‘internet tough guy’, stop doing ‘callout’ posts to provoke drama, stop openly virtuing every block you make, stop trying to make anything mundane to be political, and you will start to be virtually invisible to these people. This isn’t even just exclusive to posting online, some of it applies to in-person interaction as well. Generally only the miserable prefer to be around the miserable, and usually it’s the most miserable people that exhibit most of the aforementioned behaviors. Stop trying to act as some different personality online, and instead talk how you genuinely would in-person.

Self-reflect. Sometimes you may have character flaws that you can improve on; don’t fall into the bait of “feel good” content, or the narcissistic “you’re absolutely perfect the way you are, don’t change a thing”, else you stunt yourself from self-improvement.

#Fediblock lab.nyanide.com seems like a good candidate too, since one of the moderators felt like showing up here:

"One of the few instances left on alt/dark fedi that allows open registrations. No review is required to join"