There is no war that can be fought with a trapped civilian population. That is not war. If you destroy all infrastructure, bomb the hospitals, ban all media, disrupt the food supply and corral the remaining population into a tiny area and then go after them. That is not war.
From the admin console Journa.host looks like a known instance to sociale.network, with a working federation. I got the error in the screenshot when trying to follow @w7voa from the web but I can do the follow searching the account on the search bar.
You've got anarchist flags and you're blaming the entire population of the state of Texas for the fossil fuel extraction that has taken place there? Fuck off. It's an "evil or incompetent" situation and I really don't care which one it is.
To highlight how ridiculous this is, allow me to share with you that EYE, born, raised, and currently residing in New York State, am currently benefiting from fossil fuel extraction that occurred in the state of Texas. This is courtesy of my maternal great-grandfather's investment strategy, which included buying stocks in Texas oil roughly 100 years ago. As a white man from new England, he had the resources to do that. Meanwhile, the people who live in Texas and work on oil rigs and live next door to oil refineries suffer the consequences of fossil fuel extraction far worse than anyone in my immediate family ever has.
But I'm cool in Dogzilla's eyes just because I was lucky enough to be born in a blue state? While Oscar, my former subcontracted coworker who traveled from TX to NY a couple summers in a row to work for a roofing company, deserves no sympathy?
Best case: unserious carelessness. Worst case: deliberately deceptive sowing of classed & racialized hostility between working class people
All three servers have been used for pushing spam across the Feddiverse. In all cases, I’ve given admins time to moderate and remove spam from their servers, and none of them have taken action. Spam continues to be hosted on those servers, and will likely be used for more spam.
Additionally, admins allow open registrations on their servers. They demonstrate a complete disregard for moderation. I suspect that these are abandoned servers.
Side note: if you wonder why queer (and especially trans) people seem particularly sensitive about how a #blocklist is constructed, in part it's because of the history of blocklists in these spaces.
We have a history of real harm being propagated under these lists.
It's also because many trans people have a special relationship to online spaces because of our relationship to both people and ourselves in "meatspace."
Not every criticism is going to be valid, but that fear has a very real basis
The lower the consensus needed? The higher the problem of amplification.
We've seen this time and again. It's not a new problem. It predates the fediverse by literally decades.
Sources that depend on each other or on your consensus #blocklist need to be considered as an existential threat to the reliability of the list. Without protections against these most* consensus lists should be considered highly suspect or even completely invalid.
Anyways, again, #blocklist management is an important topic and it is also important that we get it right and not just use choices because they are convenient.
You don't have to listen to me. Just look at the RFCs in this space.
In both cases, these servers continue to be used for an ongoing spam attack. I’ve given admins of both servers ample time to respond to reports, and they’ve taken no action. Spam continues to exist on their server, and continues to be sent.
Admins continue to allow open registrations on their site. With complete lack of moderation, spammers will continue to register.
All of these servers are vectors for an ongoing spam attack. Despite me giving them ample time to respond to reports, they refuse to respond. They show no inclination to moderate, and no action has been taken by them whatsoever.
In all cases, these are abandoned servers with open registrations. It is likely they will continue to be used for sending spam across the Fediverse.
It's really great to discover so many new instances that I have never heard of before, but a bit disappointing to see how many of them are Open Registration and abandoned, leaving them subject to spam bots.
About 1 in every 5 accounts that oslo.town encounters seems to be a proactive spam bot now. It’s ridiculous.
(I say "proactive" spam bot because I imagine there are many more, but the passive ones don't @mention people)
Each of these servers served as vectors for the last spam attack. In every case, they have ignored my spam reports that I sent to their admins, and I’ve given them ample time to respond. Spam still exists on their servers, and no action has been taken whatsoever.
As well, I have investigated each of these servers individually, and have determined that they are still vulnerable to spam attacks. Likely, they will be used for spam again in the future.
In most (perhaps all) cases, these are abandoned servers with open registrations, and an admin who has done little or nothing to moderate new users.
Ok so I've thrown together a python tool that you can use to retrieve a list of instances you federate with and then save the domain name, title description of the instance, and the version its running on to a sqlite database. you can then convert that to a csv file and use that to filter out out of date instances and upload it to your server as a block list.
I just threw it together this afternoon so its very crude.
right now its a very slow process for it to run through the list and save the info and I'm sure there is a better and faster way to make it work but im limited in my python skills.
@aral This is all too manual/complex to be sustainable of course, the spammers will win eventually. I hope eventually this will be something we can automate in #mastodon with servers subscribing to someone we trust to keep such a #blocklist up-to-date in real time.
Then again, I fear we’d slide into the same situation as email, where all-powerful blocklist companies control the flow of everything, and if someone puts you into one of those lists, enjoy the months of fighting it will take to get off them (if you can).
Anyone know some existing middle-ground solution/proposal that could work for collaboratively inoculating against spam in the #fediverse?