Fellow instance admins: if you go to instance.tld/admin/username_bl… you can set rules that will strait up block registrations by a certain username. Use this to your advantage with r, j, JimmyTruth, Jimmy_Truth, ramon95, etc. Note that rules are case insensitive, so a rule for JimmyTruth (capital J and capital T) will also apply to jimmytruth (lowercase j and lowercase t). If someone tries to sign up on your instance with a blocked username, they'll get an error saying it's reserved. #MastoAdmin #FediAdmin #ProtectTheFediverse #TheFediverseIsOurs #FightForTheFedi

Andre Louis, Boosted from @cubic: Fellow instance admins: if you go to instance.tld/admin/username_bl… you can set rules that will strait up block registrations by a certain username. Use this to your advantage with r, j, JimmyTruth, Jimmy_Truth, ramon95, etc. Note that rules are case insensitive, so a rule for JimmyTruth (capital J and capital T) will also apply to jimmytruth (lowercase j and lowercase t). If someone tries to sign up on your instance with a blocked username, they'll get an error saying it's reserved. #MastoAdmin #FediAdmin #ProtectTheFediverse #TheFediverseIsOurs #FightForTheFedi

I could've laid down my weapons and surrendered to this Ramon Salazar / Jimmy Truth / 500 other names troll weeks ago. I could've felt deflated when hearing a new Mastodon notification come through, thinking oh God, it's him again. I could've just said fuck it and left for good. But I didn't. I kept going. I ignored and blocked, using the port 25 effect to my advantage. Sometimes I even fired back at him with wit and logic. I kept fighting and kept the power for myself. Speaking of power, exactly 1 week ago today, I revived my own Mastodon instance that died almost 2 years ago, so now I have even more of it. It's not exactly running on the best infrastructure in the world, but God dammit, it works and has been going really well so far. The fediverse is ours and no twisted troll who shoves their views down our throats and attacks us for our own views is gonna take it away from us! #ProtectTheFediverse #TheFediverseIsOurs #FightForTheFedi