Four more accounts to #Fediblock. JimmyTruth@c.im, JimmyTruth@aus.social, J@gardenstate.social, and JimmyTruth@ohai.social. Thanks to @admin for getting these taken care of as well. I can't even imagine how bloody stressful this is for you guys. There is no way you should have to basically be dealing with this child's antics.
A warning that JimmyTruth@ieji.de Jimmy@theres.life are both accounts created by Ramon Salazar, who was already blocked for nasty comments towards several trans individuals. #fediblock
#FediBlock recommendation, there's a rogue server cloning lots of real accounts so it can impersonate them. There is no legitimate reason for such behaviour, admins should suspend it ASAP:
mastodon.arell.ai
Admins might want to suspend the main domain:
arell.ai
This would be good in case the owner tries the same stunt on a different subdomain. Blocking the main domain also blocks all of its subdomains.
You might have seen a post being shared around saying Canada has opened up its suicide hotline to American citizens with Trump threatening a shutdown of ours in the US.
The number it links to is the Trans Helpline. This is likely a right wing attempt to try to flood and overwhelm the hotline and hurt trans people.
Please be careful and check on this before you share them. And if you see an account for a Jeras Ikehorn which seems to be bridged here from Bluesky, know this is the second time in several weeks they have blatantly shared misinformation that harms trans people.
#fediblock Like clockwork, 4chan has arrived. This instance has pepe emojis and are close with poast so safe to say you're not losing anything of any value here. clew.lol/objects/147dc601-4c3d…
Možná jste taky zaregistrovali spamující účet, co se vydává za „Nicole“. Chodí od ní otravné zprávy do DMs. Už jsem ji několikrát blokoval, ale pokaždé se registruje na jiné instanci. Snažím se to průběžně blokovat, ale kdyby vám to taky přišlo, rovnou blokněte a případně nahlaste. #Fediblock #CZfedi #spam
#podcast 📻 Interview with @Seirdy about blocklists and moderation on #fediverse. Continuation of previous show on #fedipact. Seirdy shares their extensive knowledge and experience.
There's Slovene 🇸🇮 introduction but the interview is in English and starts at 6:41.
Been a while. I’ve mostly been posting on the Fedi, but I feel like this is a rather important topic that requires attention.
Recently @dansup has been posting a bunch about loops.video, a federated alternative to Instagram/ TikTok.
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/
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...
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...
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
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.
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.
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.
As @Seirdy pointed out, the Burma.social mods have apparently banned the offending account. As they are actually from the Myanmar region of Burma, I suspect the delay was due to the language, time zone, and connectivity barriers.
As they have banned the troll, and didn't seem to have any other offending content, I suggest a reversal of the #FediBlock, and that anyone who blocked them over this should consider unblocking.
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:
(EDIT 2023-10-14: Jeff now runs journa.host as well)
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Fediverse! I’ve been building a bridge to Bluesky, and they’re turning on federation soon, which means my bridge will be available soon too. You’ll be able to follow people on Blu…
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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...
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.
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#FediBlockDetails
