Dear Putler,

Go fuck yourself to hell.

Sincerely

fucking pieces of shit, their grubby hands are now trying to abuse Mastodon...

appreciate the call Stux, I can help composing a reply towards Roskomnadzor in russian if needed haha

BTW

Please feel free to send some fun mails to that address

Keep the fuckers busy for a while

Thank you for posting this and thank you for your excellent response.

There's no end to how insidious Russian manipulation is in trying to shift views, and there's much too much apologia for it online — including on the Fediverse.

Being open and transparent about it like this is super helpful in combating it.

Well, that's a follow.

I wish I knew the exact post that has them sweating, undoubtedly something true and secret that they didn't think could be implied by evidence.

People who conduct assassinations probably should not let things they are afraid of be known. But they wouldn't be violent if they were clever.

Yeah, fuck you Putler.

If we do need to comply with Hetzner on this, I'm gonna look into an option to get mstdn.social in-home, like literally so they won't be able to touch anything

But that's a last resort since I do not have the hardware not money for that currently

At least there's options just in case

@Bellingcat

Good for you Stux! 👏

Thank you for standing up for this, and for telling us about this going on!

This is like... what the Fediverse is made for, that the people who run it and the people who use it are at the same level instead of some weird corporation doing awful stuff behind closed doors..

What’s the adequate reply to this email?

Wrong answers only.

I will allow myself to start:

“Since when did gas stations start sending abuse notices?”

Tell them that if they want to contact you they can download a Windows .exe file that functions (allegedly) as random number generator. That is, after all, what they ask others to do who wish to contact them.

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Adventures in Contacting the Russian FSB

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The best way to fight this?

Each censorship attempt equals a donation to the Ukrainian Armed Forces to whip these mofos' nazi ass.

Telling them so. "Thank you. Your latest attempt at censorship earned x$ for the UAF", or something like that.

but every media outlet should really have their own server on the fedi. this is our killer app for journalistic freedom. why AP should win.

it's why I always bring up @mondoweiss already running their own server. I'm sure they are constantly pissing off the Israeli govt, who will spin such stories as antisemitic and probably convince a few admins of that view.

we can't have access to important stories going viral dictated by a few rich people, VCs or corporate interests.

You know you're doing something right when you get emails from The Kremlin asking to take shit down. Keep up the great work!

@Bellingcat