⚠️ Do not move your account to mastodon.cloud. If you know someone already on mastodon.cloud you might want to suggest they move to a different server.

-Mastodon.cloud's admin hasn't posted since Feb 2023
-There doesn't seem to be any moderation, really awful bigotry is still there months after being reported
-The server software is very outdated and full of unpatched security holes
-Because of all the above, many other servers have defederated mastodon.cloud

#MastodonCloud #FediBlock

RE: alpaca.gold/@seldo/11628629571…

This guy is crawling your posts to add them to an LLM. It didn’t even occur to him to make the bot check for an opt-in. It’s purely extractive, and he’s mad that you don’t want to supply his bot with content.

#fediblock them and their server

Taking the block-evasion one step further, according to the thread the service doesn't set a user agent so it's not possible to block that way.

Again, according to the thread it does specify an ActivityPub client named "Zeigeist".

Would appreciate any feedback from admins about how to block a specific ActivityPub client.

#FediAdmin #Fediblock

The creator is making pretty clear that it's designed this way to make it harder to block.

Normally, you'd expect an LLM scraper to have a single (blockable) ActivityPub account doing the scraping.

This is designed so that everybody who uses the service has their identities harvested to steal people's data on the app's behalf.

#FediBlock #FediAdmin

If you feed somebody's posts into your shitty LLM without an explicit and reversible opt-in, you are violating the consent of fedi users.

This "Zeitgeist" app not only violates consent, but it also doesn't have a centralized ActivityPub identity that can be blocked or defederated.

#FediAdmin #Fediblock

alpaca.gold/@seldo/11622924345…

Friendly reminder: last year I built FediMod FIRES, a protocol and reference server implementation for sharing moderation data.

I haven't yet been able to get anyone to adopt it or even signal intent to adopt. But regularly I see people complaining about the lack of data sharing when it comes to moderation, especially for combating spam, scams, and harassment. The tool is there, please use it!

Whilst I'm not actively working on FediMod FIRES this quarter, I did apply in November for a grant to continue that work, and last I heard a few weeks ago is that the grant made it to the next stage, so I may have some money again to fund development.

It's not 1.0.0 yet, because I decided it needed more work for me to be happy to call it that, but it is usable!

Installation is also super simple for data producers, literally two commands on debian or ubuntu boxes.

Learn more: fires.fedimod.org/manuals/refe…

#moderation #fediblock #administration

FIRES Reference Server | FediMod FIRES

Fediverse moderation Intelligence Replication Endpoint Server

^{FediMod FIRES}

#Fediblock @MissB

This is not your usual bot account, nor your usual troll or rage-baiter.

This is a genuine scumbag hiding behind an anonymous account who is sexually harassing women in #GazaVerified over private messages.

A message to this scumbag, as I’m pretty sure that he’s reading me: please print this screenshot and show it to your children one day - assuming that such a miserable evolutionary failure as you has an even remote chance of reproducing successfully.

Tell them how proud you are of yourself, and tell them how much you consider your civilization superior to those of the Middle East when it comes to how we treat our women.

The anonymous Zionist hasbara meme poster has created at least two new accounts on two servers (ban evasion) to continue their reply and block harassment.

⁃ @avidity@qlub.social
⁃ @hedgerows@101010.pl

Please report + block. #fediblock

(No one is pro the Iranian regime here but neither are we pro-American/Israeli aggression. “Antizionism” is being anti settler colonialism, ethnic cleansing, apartheid, and genocide.)

#israel #zionism #settlerColonialism #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #genocide

The Ro-Bot Helper #spambot has a new angle… suspicious activity 🤦‍♀️
#FediBlock certainly is busy today.

Again, for those at the back, there is no verification on and there is no content engagement benefit, and this spam is run by the same bots. Report them as you see them - those moderators are doing a superlative job, but we still need to report.

And a belated fuck off and block you very much to this absolute asshat.

(Post sent in reply to mastodon.ar.al/@aral/116155030… before blocking me. These people are bloody sociopaths.)

#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #Palestine #Gaza #StopIsrael #FreePalestine #fediblock #hasbara