And before you @ me with the tired, default, overused "Are you surprised?" No. I never am. Stop asking.
Outraged? Yes. Disgusted? Yes. Sickened? Yes. But never surprised.
Via Elie Mystal:
Tom Cotton is a racist dipshit and while it's always fashionable to focus on the racist part, I really don't think the dipshit part gets enough attention.
Tom Cotton: "Have you ever been a member of the Chinese Communist Party?"
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew: "Senator, I'm Singaporean. No!"
Seems to be a single user instance, the admin is aggressively rude with a bit of anti-science anti-medicine thrown in. Trashes Democrats. Indistinguishable from the Russian trolls who masquerade as liberals. I think a #FediBlock of status.sexyferret.science would be well justified.
There's currently an incident involving some kind of Japanese skids who call themselves the "Kuroneko" organization.
They seem to be attempting to commit DDoS attacks on Misskey servers, constantly creating new accounts on compromised instances and spamming advertisements for their hacking services.
Admins who are federating with these compromised servers, while they might not get compromised themselves, may be affected by the sheer amount of traffic volume from their spam.
Admins are advised to #fediblock or temporarily stop sending requests to affected servers for now, if they don't want to get secondhand DoS'd
IMO I never expected them to be Japanese out of all things, kinda funny. They also host VOICEROID and VOICEVOX TTS bots on their Discord apparently. Kinda a weird flex I guess.
#fediadmins are advised to temporarily disable sign-ups for now, or implement some anti-spam measure to limit signups to not get spammed.
Currently they are targeting #misskey and #mastodon, but other #activitypub servers may soon be targeted.
I guess I'll make my own post about it just in case, so those who've already blocked the instance have a bigger chance of seeing it...
the https://px.mathias777.com/ spam problem SHOULD BE FINE NOW...
The admin has reportedly gotten the situation under control now, and should be setting up the instance better to prevent it from happening again. We at the oomfie city mod team (and by that I mean Luttyz because French lol) have reached out and offered a helping hand, so the instance should eventually become just a normal pixelfed instance.
You can of course monitor activity before deciding on what to do, if you're still weary or unsure, but rest assured none of the things that happened were deliberate. Me personally I don't think the admin deserves to have this affect the instance too severely now that it's (hopefully) fixed...
If anyone else like https://mastodon.terabyte-computing.com/@cloudguy thinks transphobia or any kind of bigotry to a minority is the norm, and opposition to it is some kind of"woke bandwagon". Just pre-emptively block me now please. We are not going to be friends.
#FediBlock.
EDIT:
He is also an instance admin, so I have defederated from mastodon.terabyte-computing.com, I advise reporting to flag to your instance admins.
#fediblock mastodon.social for refusing to implement even basic spam mitigation and user vetting, such as flagging behavior like sending DMs to dozens of accounts on other instances before any other interactions or even entering anything on their profile, on an instance clearly outsizing the capabilities of its moderation team
Im herby deferderating void.rehab for spamming federation and running Denial of Service attacks against instances (using subdomain emmaverse.void.rehab) if your instance is running on lower spec hardware i highly recommend defederating so u don't get affected by this
there's an article going around about the whole thebadspace situation that claims, effectively, that TBS, the "fediverse safety enhancement protocol" that proposed integrating it by default, and related efforts are all part of a big corporate effort to destroy fedi.
i think this article draws hyperbolic conclusions that aren't supported by evidence and is overall extremely weak. some examples:
the article claims 'The bulk of Nivenly's funding appears to come from companies who obtain trade membership' and then three paragraphs later 'It is unclear whether Nivenly actually has any trade members at all.' which is it?
the funding section also points out that many of the github sponsors are white cis men. the author is clearly using this to imply something, but doesn't state what. this is just generic "techbros bad" nonsense.
"The conversation about adding FSEP to Mastodon does not happen on Mastodon, it happens on Github, entirely unchallenged, away from the prying eyes of queer people it targets." this is because mastodon is a terrible forum for formal discussion! conversations about mastodon features also typically don't happen on mastodon! the article repeatedly positions github as some scummy techbro hive: "the registration process is intentionally made obtuse for non-technical users", and so on.
if you're going to criticise tbs for not providing receipts (which I agree with!) you can't then say "receipts were withheld from the #Fediblock suggestion: it is always acceptable for trustworthy members of the Fediverse Council to refuse to disclose evidence, for example to protect marginalized people at risk of harassment.". (edited to add: a couple people are saying this reads as sarcastic; it doesn't to me, but i wanted to leave the possibility here)
Suite à la vision désagréable d'un pouet de désinformation pro-russe sur la guerre en Ukraine, j'ai bloqué l'instance pravda.me (et le compte qui avait boosté le pouet en question).
Je conseille aux gens qui ne veulent pas voir ce genre de pouets de bloquer cette instance également. #FediBlock
Between 5:12am and 6:15am UTC mstdn.plus was hit with 111 registrations that are suspected to be part of the Japanese-language #spam. (They have been intercepted and no spam was resulted.)
The accounts have "$USERNAME@chitthi.in" as email.
They appear to be using Tor exit nodes. Some IPs involved (number of accounts):
With talks of bridges right now I think it’s worth noting that if you don’t have nostr relays blocked right now, you really should consider it. It’s crypto nazi hell. It’s a software built atop of crypto, and is used by freeze peachers as it is as a protocol inherently based on block evasion. There are lists of currently maintained relays that are publicly available. #fediblock
(Reminder to use the FediBlock tag for block recs only to keep it usable. Please start discussions about the tag on # FediBlockMeta ! Thank you.) #FeDedupe#mastodonart
Tutorial rápido para bloquear #threads y todas las instancias que han estado usando como prueba (de momento)
(En modo navegador de pc)
vas a https://codeberg.org//alexis/block-meta-from-fedi/src/branch/main/.data/domains.txt le das a descargar, renombras el .txt como csv vas a preferencias > importar y exportar > importar > Pinchas en lista de seguidos y selecciona Lista de dominios bloqueados, carga el csv y listo!
The instance came to our attention due to spam originating from it (the currently widespread "kuroneko organisation" spam bots), but we found the instance advertises itself as refusing to moderate racism, anti-queer harassment, and "cyberbullying won't lead to a suspension".
In response to #Tooters defederating the instance paravielfalt.zone for violating our community rule regarding CSAM material the admin has been block evading, and has now moved to creating accounts @ tooters.org.
IP address belongs to a German data center: 37.120.174.59
The email domain used for account creation is: wir-sind-auch-menschen.de which if you view it the website is dedicated to defending pedophilia.
We recommend blocking this CSAM instance and the email domain.
Everybody else lied about by #FediBlock up to this point could get fucked as far as you all were concerned because you believed in "collateral damage." Well, now your friends are the collateral damage.
It’s so grating how the lesson of #fediblock and such still hasn’t been learned/intuited by a majority of furry fandom yet. Everyone’s so quick to jump on the soapbox and complain about ineffectiveness of applying broad-sweeping blocklists when they’re negatively impacted by it, and try to speak in a noble manner of morals and principles. Yet, typically in barely a few posts/days later, are still defending much of it as a necessity to ‘solve the Nazi problem’, when it does absolutely nothing of the sort. Blocking “Nazis” (whereas that term is used in such a broad spectrum from: actual non-sockpuppet neo-Nazis, to ‘people I disagree with’, that it makes it meaningless) does not make them disappear, it’s no more than the logic of a child hiding under their bedsheets hoping for the imagined monster to go away.
If you look back into history of the fediverse, even back before ActivityPub became a thing (back in OStatus days): it’s a pattern where a lot of the heavily blocked instances ended up continuing to live on, while the over-moderated instances killed themselves off by crippling their user’s ability to intercommunicate per overprotective moderation. In fact, in the present day it’s where a lot of the ‘most active’ fediverse instances are the most blocked, and yet fediblock puts very little of any dent in it. You know what happens when you list an instance in a fediblock list? You irrevocably start to put them in the “banned” side of the fediverse, the space where people don’t have to walk on eggshells nor try to soften their words to appease the sensitivities of the more overmoderated instances.
On the “banned” side, there’s no point to try to cater to the fediblock crowd anymore, because that’s already been irrevocably severed. If you’re listed once, it’s just blindly recirculated to other lists, and never resolvable. So instead of “keeping the Nazis out”, whereas the practices of fediblock–you’re actually pushing more people to ‘that side’ of the internet, and causing the opposite of whatever ‘social justice’ endeavor you’re on. I’ve actually made far more genuine and authentic friends from fedi than I have from Discord and Telegram by far, majority of friends which are on the ‘banned’ side, versus being around the people that’ll ditch out from you at the moment of getting any ‘cancel culture’ labeling.
I almost feel bad for these people that wrap themselves so deep into such fleeting, fickle online associations (usually also chasing after parasocial relationships too). Always so quick to startle, offend, or whatever. The ever-moving ‘chase’ of jumping from Twitter, to fedi, to Bluesky just to ‘not literally be in a Nazi bar’, like some neverending Scooby-Doo monster chase scene. What is so staggering and harmful in witnessing word choices you disagree with? You can just shrug it off, ignore, and move about your day. It’s no surprise that anxiety disorders are so profoundly ubiquitous in the present, if people can’t de-condition themselves from going panic mode in stumbling across something they weren’t expecting. But yet people believe it’s a responsibility to hide any level of provoking content, as if it’s “protecting” them, instead of realizing it grows their phobias.
A fediverse server is not a private Discord guild, it is not a Telegram group, it’s to be handled as internet infrastructure like an email server, a backbone router, etc–you don’t interfere with legitimate traffic just because you disagree with differing viewpoints or lexicon, otherwise you greatly reduce the effectiveness of the network and just push people back to centralized services. If you want a moderated community then start a centralized forum, a chat server, or any other variety of closed-space communities.
If you routinely have problems being a center of negative attention, then: stop virtue signaling, stop acting as ‘internet tough guy’, stop doing ‘callout’ posts to provoke drama, stop openly virtuing every block you make, stop trying to make anything mundane to be political, and you will start to be virtually invisible to these people. This isn’t even just exclusive to posting online, some of it applies to in-person interaction as well. Generally only the miserable prefer to be around the miserable, and usually it’s the most miserable people that exhibit most of the aforementioned behaviors. Stop trying to act as some different personality online, and instead talk how you genuinely would in-person.
Self-reflect. Sometimes you may have character flaws that you can improve on; don’t fall into the bait of “feel good” content, or the narcissistic “you’re absolutely perfect the way you are, don’t change a thing”, else you stunt yourself from self-improvement.