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CW: Harassment on Mastodon
Your points in this thread about harassment of visible female/POC accounts are extremely valid.
Might be really one of the reasons why Mastodon still struggles to get traction. (Caveat: we should care more about the people, not so much about comparing user counts of platforms, of course).
Dear people, consider also that it is much easier to endure the infrequent but still horrible nazi-harasser when you feel supported by the community. When you feel unwelcome because of replyguys and mansplainers, maybe you don't have the spoons to endure the additional "real" targeted harassment..Sadly, I know no silver bullet for this situation besides all the stuff we know already:
- don't be an asshole reply guy. Breathe before responding. Ask yourself: does the world really need my answer? Read people's profiles before interacting, especially when you disagree with something. (This helps also to reduce mansplaining)
- don't question the experience of people describing harassment. Just don't.
- report harassment also when it targets others. And step in. No need to be overzealous and get the pitchforks when a possibly neurodivergent person (especially when english is not their native language) writes a post in a weird tone. Our social media culture is heavily US-centered and not everybody understands the same codes. Learn ways to step in responsibly and adequate. A restorative justice approach might be more productive than outrage cyclesin the long run, but of course, there are clear red lines.
- for mods/afmins: consider stricter anti-harassment moderation and less "this is the internet, man up" - discourses
- support people that try to implement anti-harassment tools into Mastodon, because of course, it is the culture of human interactions in each place, but the available tools for moderation and interaction (e. g. control over visibility, optional restrict replies or similar). Some stuff is moving in the right direction, but still I have sometimes the sensation that stuff like fancy buttons is prioritized over these things.
- fucking listen to people.
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@[email protected] @mindly[email protected]
We have received a bunch of empty Admin Reports from@mindly.socialand our reaction have been to Suspended their system account to avoid further spam from them, and Silenced them to help keeping they users of the grid. This is also done to protect the fediverse against CloudFlare's tracking and spying on users and absorbance of [PII](/articles/MTX-A-79/PII) data
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## About mindly.social
A review of their instance shows us a miss configured instanceHost mindly.social Software mastodon / 4.2.12 Administrator (Unknown) ((Unknown))
When investigating the privacy violating server, we find it is under CloudFlare's control, now I start to get suspicious of the lowlifes runningmindly.commindly.social. 3600 IN NS duke.ns.cloudflare.com. mindly.social. 3600 IN NS jean.ns.cloudflare.com. mindly.social. 300 IN A 188.114.97.3 mindly.social. 300 IN A 188.114.96.3
Taking a look at the MITM infected instance true a Virtual machine running on Open Source, reveille the following accounts to hang out to dry for spamming fediverse admins with their nonsense of forwarding empty spam reports with no comment or explanations on why a post was reported, The only thing we can come to thing of, is it some newly converted Israelis super puritan Jews who tries to overtake the new world order by their terrorism.
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* @[email protected]Mindly.Social aims to be a friendly, non-topic specific community focused on spreading positivity, expanding your knowledge and experiences, and just being plain old happy on social media for once.
What?? you just proven the opposed by attacking matrix.rocks with spam bombs
## The false reports
All notes mentioned below, is marked with CW and the attachment are marked as sensitive, all in compliance with our rules and guidelines.
- https://matrix.rocks/notes/9y8vfzoqyw reported eight time...
Welcome to the #hallofshame of #stupidity
@matrix.rocks
## tags
#MindlySocial #admin #antiprivacy #cloudflare #cloudflarecyberattack #fediverse #hallofshame #infosec #internetsecurity #mastodonadmin #mastodonadminspammers #mastodonmoderation #mastodonreportspam #mastodonspam #mastodonspamadmins #MITM #moderators #privacy #reportspam #reportspamming #suspended #tracking #unencrypted
Issue: https://kb.mypdns.org/issue/MR-3 #nsfw #bikini -
Well, that was an adventure. Today I learned how to defederate trolls. Is there a good list out there I can import to prevent this?
UPDATE: Just found the #FediNuke list. That’ll be a good start. I see some of today’s miscreants’ domains in there.
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Responded to a #moderation #report just now about a #SpamBot. Checked the posts to make sure it was a #bot and not just a few weird messages from a legit account, found what looks like #chatGPT rambling... 🤔
I'm not sure why someone would bother using #GPT / #LLM #AI for an account which is just posting #spam pictures, but I'm wondering if someone is realizing that having actual different text on the posts is a way to slow us down. After all, creating convincing spam that looks like it could be an actual user has been one of the stated purposes of this sort of technology for at least a decade now.
Could we be about to enter a new, ugly phase of #MastodonModeration here on the #fediverse, as spammers start utilizing more advanced systems now that they're dealing with more active moderation than the legacy social media sites have? What could we do to stop this?