Spam from the account zdx1h15j3j at misskey.favskey.online.

And now just got one from m.n1l.dev.

Looks like a new wave of open-signup spam.

#Fediblock

Racism in the Fediverse: Eris of Disqordia

youtube.com/watch?v=WUXOUd2AEN…

I wanted to put my thoughts on Eris and racism on fediverse in video form so here it is.

I want this wide. Boost boost boost. I want this on every fediverse instance's timeline.

#fediblock #racism #fediverse

Some #FediBlock entries. Let link-text serve as content-warnings.

goyim.social: antisemitism, racism. Main user “Flatulenator” posts:

• Anti-Black racial caricatures
• Antisemitic use of triple-parens
• Anti-diversity white pride

subs4social.xyz: all receipts are from the only user to show up in the “explore” tab.

• blatant antisemitism (transmisia further upthread if you view the canonical link).
• Misogyny and anti-Black racism, more ant-Black racism.
• Transmisia.
• Legitimizing fervor over white genocide by using it as a comparison to fervor over climate change.

peister.org: transmisia; TERF/gender-critical admin.

• Admin pinned post is blatant gender-critical/TERF nonsense
• Several more receipts available on the admin’s political profile, most of which is transmisia.

Apologies for archive.today being awful; I only used it when the Wayback Machine and Ghostarchive failed to render posts (my archiving script automatically tries all three). If you’re getting IP-blocked or sent to CAPTCHA hell, you can grab the full canonical URL from the archive.today URLs. If you have a Tor-enabled browser, you can work around IP-blocks by using their Onion domain instead: archiveiya74codqgiixo33q62qlrqtkgmcitqx5u2oeqnmn5bpcbiyd.onion/

#FediBlockDetails

Yuchen Pei (@quasi@peister.org)

This was the post cited for the suspension of my previous account @dragestil. I think it is worth repeating: Wow, so if a man uses women's bathrooms and changing rooms then it means he is living a...

^{web.archive.org}

#fediblock fsebugoutzone.org

1) They used to be freespeechextremist.com
Receipt 1: blog.freespeechextremist.com/b… (archive link: archive.ph/mOnM9)
Receipt 2: fsebugoutzone.org/p (archive link: archive.ph/s4lRj)
2) They're a "freeze peach" instance, as seen in their "about" page.
3) They also have an MRF to block incoming deletes & a block notification bot.
Receipt 3: fsebugoutzone.org/about (archive link: archive.ph/kZ1m1)

pistolero (@p@fsebugoutzone.org)

Resident hacker, leader of the fsebugoutzone.org coup of the FSE Autonomous Zone, BOFH of freespeechextremist.com, and former admin of FSE before the establishment of the FSE Autonomous Zone. Laun...

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#FediBlock

@CensorsAreCultists @mastodon.cloud

ETA: also at @CensorsAreCultists @berserker.town

@CensorsAreCultists@ submarin.online

Whole (brand new) account is conspiracy theories, Covid denialism, and, in the post I just received as a reply, also antisemitic and Islamophobic

(don't click thru to the post if you don't wanna see those)
mastodon.cloud/@CensorsAreCult…

Some #FediBlock entries:

friendlica.de (carefully note the spelling; there’s an “L” in the domain): racism, queerphobia, eugenics.

• Abortions as a solution to poverty (context: Harz und Herzlich is a show about poverty in Germany (Wikipedia link is to a snapshot of the current revision at the time of writing))
• Calling BLM racist.
• Calling Bavarian gender-ban protestors “idiots”,
• Queerphobia, esp. with that prior context.

bemrose.social: xenophobia and COVIDspiracy from admin.

• xenophobia.
• COVIDspiracy.
• Anti-trans-pride.
• Instance nodeinfo shows a policy that globally rejects deletes.

shitposte.rs: antisemitism.

• Instance metadata in the nodeinfo endpoint lists a staffAccounts object containing a staff member with the handle “ilovemymom1488”.
• If that’s not enough, staff member “butters” posts “eat the bugs” dog-whistles and butts into holocaust remembrance threads to rant about the WHO.
• Note: not to be confused with other instances that have the word “shitposter” in their domain.

#FediBlockDetails

Sir Ryan Bemrose (@ryan@bemrose.social)

Nobody gets a "cold" anymore. Coughing? COVID. Sniffles? COVID. Sore throat, fever, chills, muscle aches? COVID. Stroke, heart arhythmia, turbo cancer? It's all COVID now. One simple easy-to...

^{web.archive.org}

#fediblock mastodon.scot

Yesterday, one of their users replied to the Auschwitz Museum with:
“I wonder in the future whether you will post pictures of Palestinian children?”

ghostarchive.org/archive/8rbYq
archive.today/2024.04.04-16542…

The post has been removed, but the user is not limited at all.

Harboring users who harass a Holocaust Museum account fundamentally breaks our code of conduct. A post removal is not enough for an offense as extreme as this in our view, as this user displayed an extreme level of antisemitism and should not be allowed to continue without limits as if nothing happened (including the ability to harass others in the future).

Individual user handle: lochalshlad[at]mastodon.scot

mastodon.scot

A server intended for (but not limited to) users in Scotland or who identify as Scottish.

^{Mastodon hosted on mastodon.scot}

A really brief #FediBlock:

If you blocked shitposter.club, it now has a related instance shitposter.world which appears to be its successor following technical issues. If you don’t find SPC block-worthy, you can ignore this post.

• SPW shares many members.
• Side note: If your blocklist is public and was picked up by a blocklist-scraper, SPW probably already proactively blocked you. If it didn’t or if you want to cover your bases, you’ll need to update your entry.
• Receipts for the original SPC instance.
• Thread with background on the technical rationale for the new instance, and a post from the admin confirming it.
• About page and NodeInfo show an MRF policy to reject incoming deletes; source code.

#FediBlockDetails.

My Fediverse blocklists

Documentation on which Fediverse blocklists I offer, how they are made, their differences, their caveats, and their intended use.

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Good call. Will watch.

To add to the report, when I glance through his history, he seems to call a lot of people "fucking moron", often as a first response to a new thread. He is extremely volatile, and I would call him a harassment risk.

Also, I've noticed that he has quite a few alts across the network, and this one didn't even come up in my initial search. Perhaps people should check their own servers, to note if someone who is showing up on #FediBlock for this sort of behavior has an alt there.

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burma.social

One of those instance that claims to be "free from censorship" had an user responding to queer-related post negatively.

burma.social/@DadeMurphy/11216…burma.social/@DadeMurphy/11216…
#FediBlock

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Some #FediBlock entries:

aillust.fun: instance revolves around AI-generated lewd imagery, especially lolicon.

pso.li: unapologetic queermisia, inc. from admin account “admin”. Scroll through the local timeline for receipts.

yeshuafreedom.com: far-right conspiracy PeerTube instance with unapologetic bigotry.

• Channel “yeshuamakesfree” contains anti-vax, young-earth, and flat-earth conspiracy videos as well as blatant transmisia.
• Channel “johns_videos” has more of the same.
• Both channels are linked on the landing page of the instance as the two primary channels of the instance.

naharia.net: racism.

• Admin “megalomart” regularly posts racist bait (one, two, three, four) while having “Proud Black Woman” in their profile bio.

vigilante.tv: Another far-right conspiracy PeerTube

• Rightoid crap like the left-brain prison and “based” queermisia. Search the word “trans” for blatant transmisia.
• Hosts a channel for a Covidspiracist/germ-theory-skeptic.

Many of you have suspended newsie.social, and other instances that its admin “Jeff” runs. He’s constantly spinning up more. Here are the ones I’ve found so far:

newsie.social
<a href="http://celebrity.social" rel="ugc">celebrity.social</a>
<a href="http://conchrepublic.social" rel="ugc">conchrepublic.social</a>
<a href="http://lawstodon.social" rel="ugc">lawstodon.social</a>
<a href="http://humanist.social" rel="ugc">humanist.social</a>
<a href="http://roadlife.social" rel="ugc">roadlife.social</a>
<a href="http://greatloop.social" rel="ugc">greatloop.social</a>
<a href="http://honeytree.social" rel="ugc">honeytree.social</a>
<a href="http://boating.social" rel="ugc">boating.social</a>

Fediverse-adjacent sites by the same admin:

bigrelay.social
<a href="http://verifiedjournalist.social" rel="ugc">verifiedjournalist.social</a>

This isn’t as severe as the other entries in this post; it’s just an FYI in case you only suspended a subset. If you suspended newsie.social, you might want to consider these. If you didn’t find newise.social suspend-worthy, you can ignore this.

#FediBlockDetails

Dr. Andrew Kaufman

Andrew Kaufman, M.D. is a public speaker, researcher, natural healing practitioner, business and homeschooling consultant, inventor, and Covid-19 whistleblower. Dr. Andy has a B.S. from M.I.T. in M...

^Vigilante.TV

Hello all Fedi Admins who have problems with spam!

The Mute List 2.2.2

I have been updating the spam list and found ~104 additional instances that continued spamming! I, with lots of help of other Fedi Admins, have compiled the instances into a list which mutes them, and does not defederate from them!

I'd highly appreciate a small donation here as I've worked really hard and long on creating this, which given my current schedule I can hardly justify! Thanks!

There is a new type of spam, the same instances are affected as before. Those responsible in Japan are said to have been arrested.

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 unfollowed, only muted.

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

Hallo alle Fedi-Admins die Probleme mit Spam haben!

Die Mute-Liste 2.2.2

Ich habe die Spam-Liste aktualisiert und ~104 zusätzliche Instanzen gefunden, die weiterhin spammen! Ich habe, mit viel Hilfe von anderen Fedi Admins, die Instanzen in einer Liste zusammengestellt, die sie stumm schaltet und nicht von ihnen deföderiert!

Ich würde mich sehr über eine kleine Spende hier freuen, da Ich wirklich hart und lange an der Erstellung dieser Liste gearbeitet habe, was Ich angesichts meines aktuellen Zeitplans kaum rechtfertigen kann! Dankeschön!

Es gibt eine neue Art von Spam, die gleichen Instanzen sind betroffen wie vorher. Die Verantwortlichen in Japan sollen verhaftet worden sein.

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 ​ !

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

noauthority.social is run by the same bigoted admin as noagendasocial.com, as a continuation of the latter. If you defederated the latter, you should defederate the former.

Receipts archived and listed in its FediNuke entry, right after its sibling instances noagendasocial.nl and noagendatube.com. #FediBlock

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#fediblock @stormbringer@noauthority.social

“anti-racism is racism”, trolling

There's currently an incident involving some kind of Japanese skids who call themselves the "Kuroneko" organization.

They seem to be attempting to commit DDoS attacks on Misskey servers, constantly creating new accounts on compromised instances and spamming advertisements for their hacking services.

Admins who are federating with these compromised servers, while they might not get compromised themselves, may be affected by the sheer amount of traffic volume from their spam.

Admins are advised to #fediblock or temporarily stop sending requests to affected servers for now, if they don't want to get secondhand DoS'd

IMO I never expected them to be Japanese out of all things, kinda funny. They also host VOICEROID and VOICEVOX TTS bots on their Discord apparently. Kinda a weird flex I guess.

But yeah, probably just a bunch of skids.
#fediblock#fediadmin#fedadmins#mastodadmin#misskeyadmin

#fediblock

rosiemma.online
Abuse Type: doxxing, harrassment, block evasion
Owner is trying to doxx me and get my instance taken down for my hanna callout posts
Single User Instance

See admin account for evidence:
archive.is/M0jRB
regarding block evasion, she's created alts to get past my remote suspensions. but after reporting, those have all been getting taken down thankfully.

Some #FediBlock entries:

plagu.ee: same reasons as ryona.agency.

• Block notification bot, so don’t block individual users yourself if your instance federates blocks (Mastodon does by default). Also rejects deletes.
• Racial slurs in the keyword policies (instance-wide word replacements).
• Appears to be run by “mint”, the admin of ryona.agency and current maintainer of FBA (the blocklist scraper + search engine + notifier). My reasoning: it’s the same username, mutuals with each other, same custom MRF policies, same circle of friends, and the user is known for having many alts with the same username. Check mint on ryona.agency if you need more receipts.

boks.moe: hosts users from bae.st, breastmilk.club, rdrama.cc, beefyboys.win, etc. and making troll accounts on other instances.

• Racial slurs in concerning contexts: from an admin, same admin and a user, again.
• Creating troll accounts on another instance with the intention of rule-breaking for the lulz. Follow-up.
• While this instance doesn’t appear to be intended for block-evasion, it has (probably unintentionally?) had that effect since most members come from widely-suspended instances and have appeared in the mentions of some friends of mine who had blocked their original homes. Them getting frustrated prompted me to post this a bit earlier than I planned to.

Time for another #FediBlock round:

marsey.moe: new Soapbox instance that appears to be the new home of boks.moe after the latter got filtered by OpenDNS. It’s close to the the.asbestos.cafe/glee.li communities. If you suspended boks.moe, you might want to consider this one.

• Receipts for racism and other bigotry from the old instance: one, two, three, four, five. Paulo is the admin and Tomato has staff privileges; both are on marsey.moe now.
• More receipts in the quoted post at the end, but many of the links probably won’t work anymore unless your instance has cached the posts.

freespeech.fans: freeze peach.

• “About” page says: “Free Speech Fans is a server for those of us that want to speak and live freely. There is no need to fear being deplatformed or canceled here. If our discourse offends you then you must remember that being here is a choice.”
• No rules beyond US law.

kyun.host: subdomains m and ck.

• A lot of r/drama-like “ironic” bigotry against Romani, trans, and other groups.
• Feel free to scroll through admin account “naphtha” on either instance for more receipts.

#FediBlockDetails
RE: pleroma.envs.net/objects/e7adb…

Seirdy

2023-03-24 05:53:03

Some #FediBlock entries:

plagu.ee: same reasons as ryona.agency.

• Block notification bot, so don’t block individual users yourself if your instance federates blocks (Mastodon does by default). Also rejects deletes.
• Racial slurs in the keyword policies (instance-wide word replacements).
• Appears to be run by “mint”, the admin of ryona.agency and current maintainer of FBA (the blocklist scraper + search engine + notifier). My reasoning: it’s the same username, mutuals with each other, same custom MRF policies, same circle of friends, and the user is known for having many alts with the same username. Check mint on ryona.agency if you need more receipts.

boks.moe: hosts users from bae.st, breastmilk.club, rdrama.cc, beefyboys.win, etc. and making troll accounts on other instances.

• Racial slurs in concerning contexts: from an admin, same admin and a user, again.
• Creating troll accounts on another instance with the intention of rule-breaking for the lulz. Follow-up.
• While this instance doesn’t appear to be intended for block-evasion, it has (probably unintentionally?) had that effect since most members come from widely-suspended instances and have appeared in the mentions of some friends of mine who had blocked their original homes. Them getting frustrated prompted me to post this a bit earlier than I planned to.

Some #FediBlock entries:

parcero.bond

• blatantly racist slur-use from admin.
• antisemitism from admin.
• sui-bait from admin.

foxgirl.lol

• blatantly antisemitic use of slurs from the admin.
• transphobic slurs.
• poa.st donor admin, if it matters.

someotherguy.xyz

• xenophic “build the wall” admin.
• “family values” queerphobic pedojacketing.

taihou.website

• New server of “mischievoustomato”. See quoted post linked at the end for archived receipts on this user, from other servers.
• Confirmation that the user is the same is in this migration announcement post. Later in the thread the user also admits to block-evading in the past.
• Check their handle on rebased.taihou.website if you need to see if the concerns in that FediBlock post apply. I came to the conclusion that [it’s still worth blocking (rape threats)].(archive.today/2023.12.28-00175…).
• Edit 2023-12-28: also anti-vax and indophobic racism, the latter of which indicates that this old boks.moe receipt of tomato’s racism is still quite relevant.
• Some more xenophobia.

PS: if anyone I know would like to help find evidence of a very large Fedi server using bespoke methods to secretly filter anti-Threads topics from users’ feeds, get in touch in DMs and I may connect you to someone.

#FediBlockDetails
RE: pleroma.envs.net/objects/2659e…

Narada (@narada@foxgirl.lol)

“The kikes are not the Hebrews of old. They're the synagogue of satan”

^{web.archive.org}

Seirdy

2023-06-11 00:32:57

Time for another #FediBlock round:

marsey.moe: new Soapbox instance that appears to be the new home of boks.moe after the latter got filtered by OpenDNS. It’s close to the the.asbestos.cafe/glee.li communities. If you suspended boks.moe, you might want to consider this one.

• Receipts for racism and other bigotry from the old instance: one, two, three, four, five. Paulo is the admin and Tomato has staff privileges; both are on marsey.moe now.
• More receipts in the quoted post at the end, but many of the links probably won’t work anymore unless your instance has cached the posts.

freespeech.fans: freeze peach.

• “About” page says: “Free Speech Fans is a server for those of us that want to speak and live freely. There is no need to fear being deplatformed or canceled here. If our discourse offends you then you must remember that being here is a choice.”
• No rules beyond US law.

kyun.host: subdomains m and ck.

• A lot of r/drama-like “ironic” bigotry against Romani, trans, and other groups.
• Feel free to scroll through admin account “naphtha” on either instance for more receipts.

#FediBlockDetails
RE: pleroma.envs.net/objects/e7adb…

♲ @Seirdy@pleroma.envs.net:

Some #FediBlock entries:
plagu.ee: same reasons as ryona.agency.

• Block notification bot, so don’t block individual users yourself if your instance federates blocks (Mastodon does by default). Also rejects deletes.
• Racial slurs in the keyword policies (instance-wide word replacements).
• Appears to be run by “mint”, the admin of ryona.agency and current maintainer of FBA (the blocklist scraper + search engine + notifier). My reasoning: it’s the same username, mutuals with each other, same custom MRF policies, same circle of friends, and the user is known for having many alts with the same username. Check mint on ryona.agency if you need more receipts.

boks.moe: hosts users from bae.st, breastmilk.club, rdrama.cc, beefyboys.win, etc. and making troll accounts on other instances.

• Racial slurs in concerning contexts: from an admin, same admin and a user, again.
• Creating troll accounts on another instance with the intention of rule-breaking for the lulz. Follow-up.
• While this instance doesn’t appear to be intended for block-evasion, it has (probably unintentionally?) had that effect since most members come from widely-suspended instances and have appeared in the mentions of some friends of mine who had blocked their original homes. Them getting frustrated prompted me to post this a bit earlier than I planned to.

lots of people I like a lot on mstdn.social. However they also have Charlie Kirk. I'm blocking the whole instance. You should too. #Fediblock

Edit: His account HAS been suspended. However, in the Tusky app and in the Megalodon app, his account is visible, as are his posts, and I can still reply to him.

@megalodon and @Tusky this seems like a serious problem

E.g. eldritch.cafe/@SallyStrange/11…

#fediblock the​.occultist​.space

Calckey instance, which federates with all known bad actors (witches.​live, discordia​.space, etc.) and describes itself as "mostly free speech".

Emojis on the instance include Ben Shapiro, Pepe the frog and several other channer stuff.

pre-emptive #fediblock for meta's project92

threads.net/

threads.instagram.com/

they're not up yet but it looks like this is where they'll be

#FediPact

#Fediblock mk.gabe.rocks for spreading racist propaganda

mk.gabe.rocks/notes/9fqglcv9u1

PSA: It looks like mastodon.social has implemented hCAPTCHA on their signups yesterday.

So, if you have limited / suspended mastodon.social because of the spam issue, you may wish to reconsider this.

This will also likely mean that spammers will move to different instances (already seeing them targeting mastodon.world).

You may wish to consider implementing hCAPTCHA yourself to protect your own instance, and here is the relevant PR:

github.com/mastodon/mastodon/p…

The reason I'm suggesting this, is because if you are a small/medium instance with open registrations, and spammers find and abuse your instance, I imagine that other instances will limit/suspend your instance without hesitation, given how willing some were to limit/suspend the much larger mastodon.social.

But do note this comment on the PR:

“To give some context to people seeing this: this is an emergency feature backport from Glitch SOC to help mitigating an ongoing spam wave, this feature may not make it in a next release, or with significative changes.”

#MastoAdmin #FediAdmin #fediblock

Add hCaptcha support by ClearlyClaire · Pull Request #25019 · mastodon/mastodon

Add optional hCaptcha support. Whenever the environment variables HCAPTCHA_SECRET_KEY and HCAPTCHA_SITE_KEY are set, the admin can enable hCaptcha: When enabled, users are shown a captcha when con...

^GitHub

Note to whoever boosted this Christofascist's introduction where he said he was banned for his opinion without saying what his opinion was:

You MUST ask what the bannable opinion was!!!

Anyway heads up to other mods: I bet Mastodon.Online will ban him soon, so keep an eye out.

#FediBlock #Christofascism #Homophobia #Transphobia #BlockList

mastodon.online/@expertmanoffi…

I made a #Fediblock post about this account several days ago, along with tagging the admin of mstdn.party but this account is still up and continually denying the racism of police violence.

TootUncommon @ mstdn.party keeps replying to posts about racist policing by going "what about white people?" And saying that police violence against white people happens just as often but isn't talked about.

I don't know if mstdn.party is effectively unmoderated or just condones this racist nonsense, but I suggest a fediblock of the instance to protect users from racist harassment.

To give context for the screenshots, they appear to be arguing that police murdering Black people is not racist because Black people commit more crimes, as if that data isn't also indicative of racism.

#Fediblock

Block @ TootUncommon @ mstdn.party for anti-Blackness

Specifically jumping into conversations about anti-Blackness saying that Black people should stop talking about it because other people exist.

Also arguing that racism is not a factor in police violence against Black people because it happens to white people too.
mstdn.party/@TootUncommon/1097…

A really disgusting reply to someone discussing anti-Blackness:

This account is still up on mstdn.party and currently defending fucking Kyle Rittenhouse. Check the replies.

If you haven't blocked mstdn.party yet or at least this fucking account @ TootUncommon @ mstdn.party

You really really should

#Fediblock

#Fediblock

endtimebelievers.com/@admin

LibreLenny would like you to "behave like a Christian" where 'Christian' is open to interpretation I guess.

Also your mileage may vary re. the entrepreneurial and business content they're inviting.

There's some antivax too if you scroll through their replies.

#fediblock: mastinator.com

Grabs all your content and reposts under an account you don't own but has your name.

Also block the creator: boyter.org

From a conversation he had it's clear he doesn't understand consent nor wants to learn: mastodon.ar.al/@boyter@honk.bo…

Got another for the #fediblock trash pile

federated[DOT]fun seems to be an instance that traffics in homophobic and ableist humor and is quite friendly with a number of known awful instances.

Recommend a hard block on this one because of course #ItsAlwaysPleroma

After seeing how the admin of gladtech[DOT]social handled a recent situation with a racist user, I'm going to recommend blocking that instance.

After admitting a user had multiple reports of racist behavior and using an ai generated of a Black woman to do it behind, it was deemed that they would be allowed to stay on that instance.

This is unacceptable for a couple of reasons. To give a racist the benefit of the doubt after multiple infractions only invites that behavior to continue. And secondly, hiding your identity behind the face of a generated face of the people you are targeting implies a nefarious attempt to avoid consequences and is inherently a bad faith practice of a person who is anti-black and only seeks to cause harm.

Taking the word of a bigot after multiple infractions and deciding there should be no consequences and not limiting their ability to harass others simply invites more hateful behavior to continue and makes the fedi less safe.

#fediblock

Raspberry Pi is really proud of hiring "a policeman & it's going really great" who "was a surveillance officer for 15 years" and built covert surveillance equipment. RPi dismisses the very thing they're so proud of as "he built lightsabers [as toys]. Chill."). Dear reader, it must be remarked that the concern is not his rad lightsaber toys (which, to be clear, are rad). The concern is that he's got experience in surveillance equipment, and the company is proud to have hired him for it, and proudly blocking everyone who expresses the slightest concern about it instead of being even remotely willing to listen and understand why people are skeeved out, even people who aren't on the ACAB train and are gently voicing concerns with a surveillance cop potentially having the keys to their hardware/software.

This is not the behavior of a company that's concerned about privacy, security, trust, or autonomy, and I don't think this company can or should be trusted to remain federated with instances that want to be welcoming to marginalized people or anti-authoritarians.

Really hate to say it, because I've used and loved RPis for several years now, but if nothing else, please use a different SBC from now on. There are many options out there that aren't so eager to insult you for having concerns about security.

raspberrypi.social/@Raspberry_…

archive in case they delete
archive.ph/8YQqH

#raspberrypi #rpi #surveillance #infosec #sysadmin #fediblock #acab #devops #police #sbc #singleboardcomputer

#fediblock
Pls be aware that a notable transphobe has recently signed up ie angi@home.social. Little activity so far

Real life = Angi Mansi, who's known by the trans community. She's one of a few who go as far as calling for the repeal of legal gender change in the UK

gcritical.org/2020/10/05/the-g…

Big picture,this type is about as toxic as it gets for us as a trans community. On @tech.lgbt she's been blocked, I'd ask that you consider the same, or at least keeping a very close eye here

THE GRARG MANIFESTO - The Gender Critical

The Gender Recognition Act Reform/Repeal Group had its first meeting on 24th June 2020. It was born out of increasing anger and despair at the current state of our public debate - or lack of it - around issues of fundamental importance to women.

^{https://gcritical.org/author/svphillimore/#author (The Gender Critical)}

i aggregated a list of the 500 most defederated instances from publicly available block lists. i think it's a good base for instance admins to curate their own block list. #fediblock #data

gist.github.com/yetzt/32c754fb…

list of 500 most defederated fediverse instances

list of 500 most defederated fediverse instances. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

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