What should an Admin, or if you're an Admin, what do you do, about someone's post that contains unnecessary extreme profanities attacking a well-known person?
Reputation matters more with Mastodon because a server Admin can block an entire other server. A power I think that is abused by many Admins.
I agree, there is some line between censorship and decency that needs to be determined.
In this case, in my mind, I substituted "Trump" in his sentence, for his intended target, and asked myself if I would still react to the post, if it was aimed at Trump. It passed the Trump test. I didn't like the unnecessary raging cursing, despite the target.
I don't want this server to have a reputation of sending out endless cursing. Posts with nothing but cursing have 0 intelligent thought behind it. It's noise in the Fediverse. It's like a dog barking, except more deranged.
I, personally, don't care if I get blocked, but I do care if this server gets blocked because it's not just about me.
I ask for opinions because I recognize that I may learn something listening to other people, and it could change my thinking.
Some people attacked me for even asking. One telling me that if I need to ask, then I shouldn't be an admin. Another accusing me of supporting genocide.
I'm good at not letting people get to me. But, it's discouraging sometimes.
The problem is that changing the privacy makes it complicated. All other servers need to be notified. Then they need to figure out if they should delete messages or not for particular users. Then you'd have to hope that all the different apps (Mastodon, pleroma, sharkey, lemmy....) would handle it properly.
Better to delete, which all apps understand and implement, and then resend it.
@alex@Pix
Interesting list. There's so many on it! I've visited a number of them, so far, and have suspended a number of them that are on the list, so far.
Is anyone else getting traffic from 216.106.86.232 ?
I will open a report with the ISP
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I'm putting this under #FediBlock because I've noticed that since 12 PM EDT yesterday (30-Apr-2024), API requests coming in from 216.106.86.232 have been returning 500 errors constantly from my server. No other 500 errors were being returned.
I blocked the IP at the Cloudflare firewall and now the 500 errors have stopped. There were more than 93K 500 return codes in total until now!
I have no idea what the requests are, and it's too late at night to do more research, but I'm passing this along to other Admins as a warning and to see if anyone else is seeing similar behavior.
Here's what I see in Cloudflare for the last one hour before blocking the IP address. Notice all the requests returning 500 are from this single IP. There are no page views. It's all API requests. And 500 errors stopped after I blocked it.
I wondered about this, but the volume is about 2000/hour which isn't enough to really impact. And the calls it's making are pulling small amounts of data.
If this were meant to strain the server, I think they could have picked worse APIs. I feel someone is experimenting. Maybe not realizing they are being annoying?
I was hit with a pretty interesting report the other day - a user claimed some instance replicated their profile which isn't their official or real account.
I tried looking into the account or instance, but was immediately forwarded to spam and advertisement sites.
The instance is https://t.l3r.me/ identifies itself as a BirdSiteLIVE instance, that at least explains a "duplicate" account (the user was probably confused because this site imported their Twitter account with the same handle and name). However, I am not aware of any BirdSiteLIVE instance that automatically imports any user's accounts so that other instances index it allowing a user to discover it?
I tried importing my own Twitter account, which I don't use, and it didn't work. So it is not a functional BirdSiteLIVE instance (anymore)!
That is not the important part, however, what matters is that when you try to resolve the link, open an account on their page or interact with this domain at all, you're forwarded to advertisement webpages.
Maybe there's a possibility that this used to be a working Fedi instance and then once it was turned off the domain host turned it into a domain parking page for generating money through clicks (which would explain the ads).
The idea of an instance that duplicates profiles in order to generate fake clicks in order to make money off of ads seemed pretty grim, however.
Just wanted to share my findings! Stay away from this “instance”, block it, and delete everything stored in association with it!
I've blocked it to be safe. It was already disabled here due to too many failures trying to connect to it and nobody here followed anyone there and vice versa.
I take a similar approach here. The only other thing that I do is that, while I have threads.net limited, I do remove the limit individually on some accounts, like Potus, well-known journalists, and Obama, for example.
@CartyBoston@david_ingram It is awesome to see Dave here. But, unfortunately, he won't see any of these replies or likes. Only half of the integration is working. Sigh.
@dansup@pixelfed
I am excited about hosting a Loops server when it's available. I've been hoping that a TikTok-type Fediverse app would become available.
I think it would be a good for all of us who are interested in hosting the application to see it, and play with it, as early as possible, with the understanding that it's released "as is" with no support. It's fine.
Hi Jerry. :) I noticed that sometimes, when I post a link to a YouTube video, the preview image shows up in my post. Other times it doesn't. The formats of the links in each case look the same to me. Is there something that I'm missing?