#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

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

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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.

^Gist

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]

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#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

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