Wait, is @rabble saying what I think he's saying? That's there a central moderation power in BlueSky that you can't opt-out of? Even if you use an ATProto stack totally independent of BS services? Or does he just mean you can't opt-out if you're using the BS AppView, Relay, or either?
https://wedistribute.org/podcast/s2e3-rabble-from-nos-social/
#podcasts#WeDistribute#Decentered #moderation#BlueSky
@76c71aae3a491f1d9eec47cba17e229cda4113a0bbb6e6ae1776d7643e29cafa
If you're a #FediAdmin I'd really recommend checking out this guide on the Online Safety Act by @iftas
https://about.iftas.org/2025/07/30/navigating-the-uk-online-safety-act/
#OnlineSafetyAct#OSA#Compliance#Moderation#Fediverse#Mastodon
If you're a #FediAdmin I'd really recommend checking out this guide on the Online Safety Act by @iftas
https://about.iftas.org/2025/07/30/navigating-the-uk-online-safety-act/
#OnlineSafetyAct#OSA#Compliance#Moderation#Fediverse#Mastodon
Shit...
There seems to be going a new Donations-for-Gaza scam going on. Quite elaborated (thanks to the person who reported this!)
Maybe you were followed by one of these accounts:
https://kolektiva.social/@ibrahimqannan
https://mastodon.world/@nadra_tibi
https://manganiello.social/@ola
https://mas.to/@ola_abu_moamer
(there are probably more)
These accounts appear to be impersonating well-known journalists in Gaza by copying posts from their real accounts like these:
https://www.facebook.com/ibrahim.qannan.1/
https://www.instagram.com/nadra_tibi/
https://www.instagram.com/ola_abu_moamer/
These Mastodon accounts rapidly started following hundreds of users without interacting in any other way, or writing standard messages (see 3rd screenshot).
For the one on kolektiva, we did a reverse IP address look up for the user, and they are based in Calgary, Canada.
They've put a highly suspect fundraising link in their bio we could not find linked by the actual journalists Ibrahim Qannan or Nadra Tibi on any of their real accounts. This fundraising campaign appears to be a yet another scam to capitalize on people's desire to help Gazans.
All of them have this fundraising campaign on chuffed that looks sus as fuck:
https://chuffed.org/project/137341-emergency-relief-for-gaza-families-food-clothing-hygiene-aid
-> they achieved already 40 000 $ (!)
Is there anybody with better investigative journalist skills that wants to verify these suspicions?
Because the fundraising platform chuffed.org should be informed, too.
The same people might be behind this other scam-campaign, who knows...
https://mas.to/@markwyner/114926766399857735
(it leads to a different chuffed.org fundraiser campaign)
The scammers might have learned that asking too aggressively for donations makes people suspicious, and that such a soft approach gives greater return in the end.
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We are all desperate and want to support the people in Gaza who are currently suffering a genocide by a right-wing governed Israel, supported by our own governments.
Whether you want to give money to Gaza or you can't: please use and share this list of MutualAid groups in Gaza, published and verified by ItsGoingDown:
https://kolektiva.social/@igd_news/114915363901482538
#MastodonScam #Scam#Moderation#Fediblock @palestine
Shit...
There seems to be going a new Donations-for-Gaza scam going on. Quite elaborated (thanks to the person who reported this!)
Maybe you were followed by one of these accounts:
https://kolektiva.social/@ibrahimqannan
https://mastodon.world/@nadra_tibi
https://manganiello.social/@ola
https://mas.to/@ola_abu_moamer
(there are probably more)
These accounts appear to be impersonating well-known journalists in Gaza by copying posts from their real accounts like these:
https://www.facebook.com/ibrahim.qannan.1/
https://www.instagram.com/nadra_tibi/
https://www.instagram.com/ola_abu_moamer/
These Mastodon accounts rapidly started following hundreds of users without interacting in any other way, or writing standard messages (see 3rd screenshot).
For the one on kolektiva, we did a reverse IP address look up for the user, and they are based in Calgary, Canada.
They've put a highly suspect fundraising link in their bio we could not find linked by the actual journalists Ibrahim Qannan or Nadra Tibi on any of their real accounts. This fundraising campaign appears to be a yet another scam to capitalize on people's desire to help Gazans.
All of them have this fundraising campaign on chuffed that looks sus as fuck:
https://chuffed.org/project/137341-emergency-relief-for-gaza-families-food-clothing-hygiene-aid
-> they achieved already 40 000 $ (!)
Is there anybody with better investigative journalist skills that wants to verify these suspicions?
Because the fundraising platform chuffed.org should be informed, too.
The same people might be behind this other scam-campaign, who knows...
https://mas.to/@markwyner/114926766399857735
(it leads to a different chuffed.org fundraiser campaign)
The scammers might have learned that asking too aggressively for donations makes people suspicious, and that such a soft approach gives greater return in the end.
---------------------------------
We are all desperate and want to support the people in Gaza who are currently suffering a genocide by a right-wing governed Israel, supported by our own governments.
Whether you want to give money to Gaza or you can't: please use and share this list of MutualAid groups in Gaza, published and verified by ItsGoingDown:
https://kolektiva.social/@igd_news/114915363901482538
#MastodonScam #Scam#Moderation#Fediblock @palestine
"On s'étonne, on s’indigne. On dit : « Comme c’est curieux ! Mais, bah ! C'est le nazisme, ça passera ! » Et on attend, et on espère ; et on se tait à soi-même la vérité, que c'est une barbarie, mais la barbarie suprême, celle qui couronne, celle qui résume la quotidienneté des barbaries ; que c'est du nazisme, oui, mais qu'avant d'en être la victime, on en a été le complice ; que ce nazisme-là, on l'a supporté avant de le subir, on l'a absous, on a fermé l'œil là-dessus, on l'a légitimé, parce que, jusque-là, il ne s'était appliqué qu'à des peuples non européens ; que ce nazisme-là, on l'a cultivé, on en est responsable, et qu'il sourd, qu'il perce, qu’il goutte, avant de l'engloutir dans ses eaux rougies, de toutes les fissures de la civilisation occidentale et chrétienne."
Aimé Césaire in "Discours sur le colonialisme" (1950) https://www.larevuedesressources.org/IMG/pdf/CESAIRE.pdf
#modération#génocide#complicité #colonialisme #civilisation#Césaire#AiméCésaire#hindenburg#Hitler #nazisme#ascension #fascisme #histoire #centrisme#Allemagne #citations #citation
"Dissolutionnite présidentielle, entre-soi (masculin) des lieux de pouvoir, refus de tout compromis avec une gauche pourtant conciliante, complaisance des milieux d’affaire envers le racisme et le nazisme et tant de menus détails… le tout sous la bannière d’un libéralisme autoritaire."
un déroulé du nouveau livre de Johann Chapoutot, "Les Irresponsables. Qui a porté Hitler au pouvoir ?" : https://blog.ecologie-politique.eu/post/Les-Irresponsables
#présidentialisme #constitution #capitalisme #gouvernement#extrêmeCentre#Macron#Papen #hindeburg#Hitler #nazisme#ascension #fascisme#élites#élite #histoire #centrisme#Allemagne #livre
"On s'étonne, on s’indigne. On dit : « Comme c’est curieux ! Mais, bah ! C'est le nazisme, ça passera ! » Et on attend, et on espère ; et on se tait à soi-même la vérité, que c'est une barbarie, mais la barbarie suprême, celle qui couronne, celle qui résume la quotidienneté des barbaries ; que c'est du nazisme, oui, mais qu'avant d'en être la victime, on en a été le complice ; que ce nazisme-là, on l'a supporté avant de le subir, on l'a absous, on a fermé l'œil là-dessus, on l'a légitimé, parce que, jusque-là, il ne s'était appliqué qu'à des peuples non européens ; que ce nazisme-là, on l'a cultivé, on en est responsable, et qu'il sourd, qu'il perce, qu’il goutte, avant de l'engloutir dans ses eaux rougies, de toutes les fissures de la civilisation occidentale et chrétienne."
Aimé Césaire in "Discours sur le colonialisme" (1950) https://www.larevuedesressources.org/IMG/pdf/CESAIRE.pdf
#modération#génocide#complicité #colonialisme #civilisation#Césaire#AiméCésaire#hindenburg#Hitler #nazisme#ascension #fascisme #histoire #centrisme#Allemagne #citations #citation
These fake verification spams would never be a problem if we had keyword kill switches.
If you try and post certain things to the inkscape forum, you get banned. Instantly and without mercy.
These spam posts use the same words, phrases etc. They should be easy to block or ban by word. We should see almost none of them ever.
Hi, friends.
I wrote an article on being a Mastodon moderator. I talk about the process, our mental health, the challenges of mutual aid, and more.
It leaves me a little vulnerable, but I think it’s an important story to tell.
If you like it, boosts are welcomed. If you have questions, feel free to reach out.
Okay, here goes…
https://markwrites.io/being-a-mastodon-moderator
#Moderation#Moderators #Mastodon #Fediverse#MentalHealth#IAmAnxiousWritingAboutThis
The domain libertarian.communitynetwork.space has been suspended (defederated) from Enby.Life. This is currently a single-user instance, but seems prepared to accept new users and become a new shitty hub for the right-wing side of fedi.
Block reasons include:
No screenshots this time, since you can just hop to the instance homepage and local timeline to see all of this right out in the open.
#FediBlock #BlockRecommendation #DomainBlocks #DomainBlock #Moderation
The domain doll.salon has been suspended (defederated) from Enby.Life for pedophilia (MAPs and lolicon/shotacon).
As usual for pedi instances, this one runs Pawkey (pediverse fork of Sharkey). Pawkey's frontend is locked down by default, so you'll need to view the users through another federated instance to verify receipts. (though I don't recommend that, personally.)
Sorry for the lack of alt text, I'm just getting tired of looking at these awful profiles. 3rd screenshot contains a lolicon banner depicting violent assault of a child, please be careful and don't look unless you need to. I censored it but it's still extremely awful.
#FediBlock #BlockRecommendation #DomainBlock #DomainBlocks #Moderation #Pedophilia
The domain feral.bond has been suspended (defederated) from Enby.Life for pedophilia (pro-contact MAPs) and zoophilia. At least one user has an alt on another pediverse instance, cunny.beauty.
The instance frontend is locked down, so you'll need to view a user through another federated instance to verify receipts.
#FediBlock #BlockRecommendation #DomainBlock #DomainBlocks #Moderation
The domain freaky.university has been suspended (defederated) from Enby.Life for pedophilia (MAPs) and zoophilia. The admin Felix is also admin of cutiepaws.org, another known MAP instance. As usual for pedi instances, this one runs Pawkey (pediverse fork of Sharkey).
As Pawkey's frontend is locked down by default, you will need to view the user through another federated instance to verify receipts. (though I don't recommend that, personally...)
#FediBlock #BlockRecommendation #DomainBlock #DomainBlocks #Moderation
The domain libertarian.communitynetwork.space has been suspended (defederated) from Enby.Life. This is currently a single-user instance, but seems prepared to accept new users and become a new shitty hub for the right-wing side of fedi.
Block reasons include:
No screenshots this time, since you can just hop to the instance homepage and local timeline to see all of this right out in the open.
#FediBlock #BlockRecommendation #DomainBlocks #DomainBlock #Moderation
Mastodon Moderators: If you've had this verification scam/spam happening from accounts on your server, would you mind sharing with me privately the IP address and other details of the account?
I'm trying to compile information on this attack (we don't have any of this data from Hachyderm, because we've approval based registrations due to LLM spam)
I've been able to pull together information on the different domains and text of the spam messages being used, but not much in the way of account details.
(Yes, this data is PII, and I promise to handle it responsibly)
Mastodon Moderators: If you've had this verification scam/spam happening from accounts on your server, would you mind sharing with me privately the IP address and other details of the account?
I'm trying to compile information on this attack (we don't have any of this data from Hachyderm, because we've approval based registrations due to LLM spam)
I've been able to pull together information on the different domains and text of the spam messages being used, but not much in the way of account details.
(Yes, this data is PII, and I promise to handle it responsibly)
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