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Y’all. This is a known spammer who is picking up momentum. We’re seeing LOTS of accounts using the same name and avatar. But the bio varies from instance to instance. And a minority of them don’t have an avatar, but still use the name.

If you see these accounts, please report them. We’re trying to wipe them out, but we can’t until we know about them.

Thanks for the teamwork! 🤝

#Spam #JimmyTruth #Teamwork #Moderation

Screenshot of a Mastodon avatar, name, and handle. The name is Jimmy Truth. The avatar is a young white male, with a long buzz cut, wearing a white tank top.
#moderation #spam #teamwork #jimmytruth

Quick Tip:
If you are being harassed on this, or any other instance, you have several options of dealing with it. You may block the account yourself, or if you feel this is a greater threat that the community should deal with, you may block and report the post and/or follower via the Mastodon web interface.
As an example on this instance, you would log into the web interface with your email address and passwored used when you signed up at:
someplace.social/
Then, navigate to the offending post or follower,and then you would click the button labeled more, with an elipsis under the post.
This will open a submenu with all the functions to manage what happens to the post or follower. For screen reader users, Mastodon has unhelpfully located this submenu at the bottom of the page, and focus is not automatically set there, so unless or until you realized this, you might think the more... button was doing nothing. It actually is, you just need to navigate to the bottom of the page after you've pressed it. Two of these options in the submenu that comes up are block and report.
Once you click on report, you will get a form to fill out, to let the moderators know about the situation. Additionally, you will have options to report to all remote instances mentioned within any posts marked for the report.
Once the report form is submitted, the moderators of your instance will immediately receive it, and will act on it as soon as possible.
#Mastodon #Moderation #StopHarassment

SomePlace.Social

Some place where you may feel free to socialize, and not be labeled by the instance.
Mastodon hosted on someplace.social
#Mastodon #moderation #stopharassment

🚨 Mastodon Support Scam 🚨

It looks like there's another wave of fake Mastodon support accounts asking you to verify your account.

Do NOT click on any links in these posts. Please report them to your server admin as soon as possible.

Please boost so that as many people can be aware of this as possible. Thank you! 💙 ☁️

#FediAdmin #MastoAdmin #MastodonSupport #Scam #Moderation #Report #Mastodon

#Mastodon #mastoadmin #moderation #scam #fediadmin #report #mastodonsupport

#matrix #moderation

#Mastodon #meta #bigtech #moderation #siliconvalley #socialwebfoundation #freezepeach

Our #GivingTuesday campaign is officially LIVE!

We’re raising $75,000 to fund a new hire: ✨ Trust & Safety Lead ✨

A crucial role in protecting Mastodon’s growing community by strengthening our trust & safety tools incl. #moderation & server blocklists.

Your support is an investment in the future of a decentralised, free and respectful online community, where every user feels safe & supported.

Thank you for being part of this movement! 💪

Donate what you can today: givebutter.com/givingmastodon

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Support Mastodon this Giving Tuesday!

Support Mastodon's Giving Tuesday campaign to fund a Trust & Safety Lead, ensuring a safe, inclusive, and thriving community. Donate today to make a difference!
Mastodon Inc
#moderation #GivingTuesday

I’m teaming up with @iftas to create template documents, moderator training, and best practices guides tailored to support moderators within the Fediverse community.

We'd greatly appreciate your input! Feel free to complete our survey to share your thoughts and suggestions.

cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view…

A million thanks to those who contribute their valuable insights!
#Moderation #FediverseModerators


Encrypted Form

CryptPad: end-to-end encrypted collaboration suite
cryptpad.fr
#moderation #fediversemoderators @IFTAS

#xmpp #Jabber #federation #chat #interoperability #decentralization #Berlin #community #meetup #moderation #xhain #standards #spam #abuse @MattJ

Interesting way of putting it.
Are you the only moderator in that instance? in such a case minimum should be to leave the decision to someone else. If you decide for yourself about the moderation of yourself then I believe its pretty much an autocratic situation.
my 2cts
#censorship #moderation #fediverse #embarrassing
#fediverse #censorship #moderation #embarrassing

Somebody reported me to myself, y’all. How’s your day going? :)

Hint: if you don’t like my comparing Israel to Russia, go tell Israel to stop acting like Russia.

(And find out how the fediverse works before you go making an arse of yourself trying to censor me on my own personal instance.)

#censorship #moderation #fediverse #embarrassing #israel #palestine #russia

Screenshot of the report showing my account header.
Screenshot of the report showing that it was reported by mastodon.lol
Screenshot of the report showing the reported content (my post comparing Israel to Russia for murdering innocent journalists.)
Screenshot of the report showing me resolving it with the note “I approve this message.”
#fediverse #Russia #censorship #israel #palestine #moderation #embarrassing

"A decentralized, interoperable Internet is an explicit tradeoff: you lose the power that comes from convincing the platforms to eliminate the speech that disturbs or upsets you, but you gain the power to move to an online community where speech policies are to your liking...and you still get to talk to people who want different speech policies."

- #CoryDoctorow, 2021

eff.org/deeplinks/2021/01/twit…

#FreeSpeech #decentralization #moderation


Twitter and Interoperability: Some Thoughts From the Peanut Gallery

Late in 2019, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey floated "Project Blue Sky," a plan for an interoperable, federated, standardized Twitter that would let users (or toolsmiths who work on behalf of users) gain more control over their participation in the Twitter …
Electronic Frontier Foundation
#decentralization #freespeech #moderation #corydoctorow

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