Hm. I wonder if I can get any fediverse admins onboard to disable all images on their instance on the World Sight Day in October, so that only alt text shows up.
PSA: Since Threads apparently will be federating replies soon, I thought I should post this again, because there's still a lot of people that don't know.
When a normal user uses "block this domain" it's LITERALLY just a MUTE. The blocked server can still see, interact, and reply to your posts, you just won't be able to see them.
It's kinda like sitting in a room with hungry bears while wearing a blindfold. If you're scared of hungry bears, your best bet is to get out of the room, not put a blindfold on. And by this, I simply mean to migrate to an instance where the blocks are up to your standard on the "instance" level.
Stay informed and make informed decisions, no matter what you choose to do with your Fediverse presence.
The main reason other AP implementations have added it (or in the case of #Misskey, made signing objects enabled by default which was a reluctant decision) as well despite Authorized Fetch / #SecureMode not being documented in the spec is that plenty of big #MastoAdmins have enabled it for their instances thinking it will prevent harassment from instances they've blocked (despite the fact that AF is purely #securitytheater), forcing the rest of the #fediverse to adopt it to remain compatible. Even at the cost of performance (no more caching).
This is plain ol' #EmbraceExtendExtinguish or #EEE for short against AP and the fedi by the Mastodon monopoly, and nobody wants to talk about it because it undermines the narrative a lot of Mastodon admins are putting out to justify their fediblocking of #Threads. Would've been fine if they focused on the (real) harms #Facebook did to Burma for example, that's a totally fine reason to block FB. But screaming EEE just makes me roll my eyes on their #hypocrisy. :seija_coffee:
Hallo alle Fedi-Admins die Probleme mit Spam haben!
Ich habe heute den gesamten Tag an einer Spam-Liste gearbeitet und 65 Instanzen herausgefunden welche mit dem Spam nicht aufgehört haben! Ich habe die Instanzen in einer Liste zusammengestellt welche diese stummschaltet, nicht deföderiert:
Ist diese Liste importiert ist ein Großteil des Spams vorbei. Das ganze ist für euch leicht, geht mit einem klick! Zudem wird keinerlei Instanz für immer geblockt, keinerlei Follower etc. zerstört oder deföderiert, sondern nur stummgeschaltet. Das ist sehr leicht umkehrbar.
Ihr könnet diese Liste einfach importieren, indem ihr auf https://yourinstance.tld/admin/export_domain_blocks/new geht und yourinstance.tld durch die Domain derer Instanz ersetzt, von der ihr der Administrator seid!
Alternativ könnt ihr auch auf Einstellungen => Moderation => Föderation => Importieren drücken, um diese Liste zu importieren.
Beachtet, dass zwar alle Instanzen mit einem Klick importiert werden können, dass aber diese Instanzen einzeln entfernt werden müssen, wenn der Spam vorbei ist.
Beachtet auch, dass es nur Sinn ergibt, diese Liste zu importieren und die Spam-Instanzen stumm zu schalten, wenn ihr euren Spam lokal und nachhaltig blockiert habt, wie hier beschrieben.
Hello all Fedi Admins who have problems with spam!
I have been working on a spam list all day today and found 65 instances that have not stopped spamming! I have compiled the instances into a list which mutes them, and does not defederate from them:
Once this list is imported, most of the spam is gone. The whole thing is easy for you, with just one click! In addition, no instance is blocked forever, no followers etc. are destroyed or defollowed, only muted. This is very easy to reverse.
You can simply import this list by going to https://yourinstance.tld/admin/export_domain_blocks/new and replacing yourinstance.tld with the domain of the instance you are the administrator of!
Alternatively, you can also click on Settings => Moderation => Federation => Import to import this list.
Note that although all instances can be imported with one click, these instances must be removed individually when the spam is over.
Also note that it only makes sense to import this list and mute the spam instances if you have blocked your spam locally and permanently, as described here.
someone on a Japanese hacker forum decided it was a good idea to spam the entire Fediverse because they wanted to cancel a minor that DDoSed a Discord bot which apparently made them lost millions (what?)
A Discord bot. I can't make this shit up man.
The real culprit seems to be someone who goes by mumei in the ctkpaarr.org forums, whose first post was literally a threat to ap12, that if they don't delete their "Kuroneko Server" Discord bot, they will spam every blog, forum and SNS and cancel him.
This shit is ridiculous.
The ap12 account from mastodon-japan was actually fake, and this dude impersonated a minor to get all of the Fediverse (us) to bully him.
Today's attack proved that the Fediverse is unfortunate pretty vulnerable even to just a skid (or maybe OP who warned the skid).
The cause of the attack includes:
insufficient moderation on some servers allowing mass account creation.
no good methods to filter out even just a keyword for an entire instance.
Even though most of us survived the first wave, we have to prepare for the second and future ones:
Servers should enable the equivalent feature in their software that enables moderators to check if an account is ok first before letting them post anything.
Mastodon, Misskey and major software should implement a regex filter that ignores posts from any instances.
Hello @askfedi_de - Liebe #MastoAdmin#MastoAdmins, gibt es einen Weg einen kleinen neuen Server schnell zu föderieren, damit wir hier auch an allen Hashtags und Beiträgen teilhaben können und Leute direkt ohne Umwege wiederfinden können?
Source: X will begin charging new users $1 a year to access key features including the ability to tweet, reply, quote, repost, like, bookmark, and create lists (Kylie Robison/Fortune)
question for #mastodon admins: does the elasticsearch index also index incoming remote posts or local instance only?
And if it's all posts, is the retention time configured via the cache settings in the admin interface?
Switching from Apache to Varnish has definitely made a big difference in performance for my Serendipitous server. Mastodon is pretty noisy and a simple thing like changing my profile summary (which generates 700+ external connections pretty much instantly) was enough to overwhelm the Apache reverse proxy server. Varnish (using Hitch for TLS) handles it with aplomb.
I guess @aral , @Curator, @Barmaid and other #mastoAdmins would find it interesting to know that a techbro has decided to collect data on the fediverse and create, out of nowhere a new public listing of people on the fediverse, without any opt-out options btw 😅