A new instance recently sprung up advertising itself as queer, sex worker friendly, and body positive, but it displays a number of flagrant red flags that merit distrust.

1. PinkSheep dot org uses Soapbox, a fork of Pleroma made by notorious TERF Alex Gleason.
2. Its TOS offers no indication that the admin has researched the legal challenges involved in making a sex-worker-safe space.
3. Its federated timeline, visible at /timeline/fediverse, includes posts from toxic shitposting instances such as refusal.biz - content warning: rape joke pinksheep.org/@rats@refusal.bi…

#fediblock

I'm a little surprised to see a lot of people posting domains in #FediBlock that any competent admin should have blocked on day 1.

Start with the weirder.earth suggested instance blocks, which are generally bigger/more active ones: github.com/weirderearth/weirde…

Tenforward.social has a much longer list with links to admin announcements, with reasons: wiki.tenforward.social/doku.ph…

Here's the current flipping.rocks list: flipping.rocks/about/more#unav…

#FediBlock #MastoAdmin

flipping.rocks

A cozy online home for arthropod enthusiasts, fungi fans, herpers, and other lovers of weird little creatures. [Donate]

^{Hometown hosted on flipping.rocks}

#MastoAdmin #FediBlock

The admin of journa.host is publicly using and linking a scraping utility to track what instances have silenced or suspended his own.

This scraping utility is using code created by Kiwi Farms, and is hosted on the same domain as an instance he himself has suspended. So he'll suspend the instance because others have - but he's happy to use something they host.

In my opinion, this information has destroyed any good will he might have had left.

amazon controlled/affiliated instance, ToS is amazon-written legalese, and demands that users at all times obey the directions of amazon-affiliated staff (§6 awscommunity.social/about/more )

#fediblock

AWSCommunity.social

AWS (Amazon Web Services) Community-Focused Mastodon Server

^{Mastodon hosted on awscommunity.social}

Again

2 poor femmes that care about their community safety on here created #fediblock ages ago

Me, and @gingerrroot helped me by taking it to her network

If every person who uses it were to donate some coin to us every once in a while it would make a huge difference in our lives

https://cash.app/$gingerrroot

my venmo: @AMarciaX

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^{Cash App}

#introduction
I'm Artist Marcia X, photographer, film-maker, writer & scholar. My research/art is #Caribbean, #afro #Indigenous studies, #philosophy & more

I have my own content subscription, books & prints for sale. I have created many tags & practices on here like #fediblock #fedikitchen #finefemmefriday

I was a mod on the first Black ran instance that was shut down due to way too much harassment & racism

To my #firstnations #indigenous #black fedi users, wad up

Here's me as Kate Sharma

So there's this one accounts posts that sometimes make the rounds because they talk about privacy being good and javascript and cookie notices being bad, and people like that sort of stuff.

But then you open up the account and you see (in addition to the covid conspiracy bullshit) literal moonlanding denial

#fediblock mastodon.honeypot.im

#feditips

say goodbye to celebrity, except for @TommyWiseau . no one here is famous enough that you have heard of them unless you are a nerd. you cannot bully the government on fedi, unless it is @Nicolas_Maduro . those cringe takes you want so bad to dunk on? forget them. they are meaningless. mute, block, report, move on. use #fediblock to report bad behavior widely