#fediban — Public Fediverse posts

If you want to keep your registrations open, but resist botnets, you may like to block all mailservers resolving to smtp.oneb.net

I desperately seek some workgroup to join, where we would exchange the bogus mailserver lists on daily basis, so we can prevent even registration attempts.

Recently, these domains I am pretty sure were used by the botnet:

file2drive.com
lutech.uk
upphim.net
cloneemail.com
dubokutv.com
cucadas.com
botgetlink.com
tsmtp.org
adn3t.com
kenhphim.net
soc123.net
emaxasp.com
adviseity.com
roratu.com
mucate.com
tinpho.com
datadudi.com
okiae.com

The botnet no longer cares exclusively about Ukraine, pro Russia, but it does lot of random things. The copied fragments of auto-translated texts include labels of various navigation links, so it is immediate obvious, that the content is machine generated. Also, the IP addresses repeat, so they don't have quite unlimited IP pool.

Most instances solve this problem by limiting registrations, but I am advocating rather for cautious growth of Fediverse, like eg. 10 times of current size. I was told, that "cool things don't need advertising", so I suggest: let's make Fediverse cool. Instead of banning more or less stable, determined and closed social bubbles from interacting, let's rather learn to cooperate and trust each other while hunting botnets like this...

#registrations #fediverse #mastodon #fediban #botnet @kayla_eilhart @smoon

If you are trying hard to keep registrations on your instance open for everyone, like we do, try to block registrations from following mailservers:

howovur.com
contaco.org
hetzez.com
aliban.org
m3player.com
rescueence.com
meocon.org
choichay.com
easymailer.live
hiemail.net
gamintor.com
consistth.com
kontoko.org
nuoifb.com
bomnet.net

They are now so desperate that they even retry from the same mailservers...

#fedispam #fediban #fediblock #fediverse #botnet

@Gargron I would like to report a serious AGPL license violation involving the project "Next Social" at https://sosyal.teknofest.app, which appears to use @Mastodon code without complying with licensing requirements.
#fediverse #fediblock #fediban

@Gargron I would like to report a serious AGPL license violation involving the project "Next Social" at https://sosyal.teknofest.app, which appears to use Mastodon code without complying with licensing requirements.
#fediverse #fediblock #fediban

@arildsen @notsoloud

As an instance admin, I have to think about it and discuss possible limitation/defederation of #Fosstodon with the other members of Pan.

Personally, I believe this specific issue is just one of the many symptoms of a much deeper, global, and troubling problem: the de-politicization of technology.

I stand by every single word @mttaggart wrote here:

https://infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/114404646594951658

#FediBan

If we can't put an end to "inter-instance war" right now then the fediverse will cease to exist.

Try to contact the instance admin/mods before blocking them.

#fediverse #fediban #fediblockmeta #pixelfed #mastodon #calckey #misskey

Do you think instance administrators should contact each other before making any decisions like defederation or suspension of a user account ?

#fedipoll #fediverse #fediban #fediblockmeta #mastodon #pixelfed #calckey #misskey #peertube #lemmy #kbin

Someone kindly do something! Otherwise I'll start to act like crazy 😠...

I HATE YOU SPAMMER 😑!

@Mastodon @spreadmastodon @support
#fediban #fedispam #fediverse #mastodon

#fediblock #fediban #instanceblock freak.university , pedophilia

@chris108 @Are0h

There's potential harm in a centralized block list, too. Someone is always going to find a way to weaponize it

Agreed, servers making block lists public would be good, but better would be if the code base mandatorily made the block list on every server public

The #fediban hashtag is the best adhoc solution in the interim. Servers won't publish their block lists unless forced to

@Are0h as #mastodon founder @Gargron has explained in his convo with journalist @adamdavidson regarding a similar concern, the #fediverse was designed so that any community can create a safe space of their own by simply starting their own server. This preserves interaction with the broader #fediverse while also allowing finer-grained control via #fediban over malicious actors and toxic adversaries

I think you will find having your own #instance will massively amplify your power over the bigots

@Are0h I respectfully disagree, assuming I have correctly understood your point (if not, please correct me).

The entire point of the #fediverse is exactly that - you CAN have both. Bigots will always exist and they will find themselves banned where they are the minority, and then they will gravitate to servers (#instances) where they are a majority, and then bigot-minority servers will #fediban those bigot-majority servers. This is an elegant design that moots any debate about censorship.

#fediban -> @borrof