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   Tokyo Outsider (337ppm) (tokyo_0@mas.to)'s status on Friday, 15-Dec-2023 13:42:25 JST Tokyo Outsider (337ppm)

   So annihilation.social, which seems to be an instance with known issues, is running a bot to identify and post about instances that are blocking #threads.

   Other users are then using those posts to send messages to the instance admins asking them to justify their decision (to harass admins of instances that block #Meta, basically).

   An example: https://attractive.space/@expert/111582436230554231

   🤔

   #fediblockmeta #fedipact

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     ferricoxide@evil.social's status on Friday, 15-Dec-2023 14:32:01 JST ferricoxide

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     @tokyo_0@mas.to Seems like a reason to block that domain, eh?

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     Gytis Repečka (gytis@fedi.lt)'s status on Friday, 15-Dec-2023 15:49:10 JST Gytis Repečka

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     @tokyo_0 Are they maybe paid by Meta to do this? 🤔

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     Mastodon Migration (mastodonmigration@mastodon.online)'s status on Friday, 15-Dec-2023 16:08:05 JST Mastodon Migration

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     @tokyo_0

     Seen this Expert Plus all over the place today. Very creepy.

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     Mastodon Migration (mastodonmigration@mastodon.online)'s status on Friday, 15-Dec-2023 16:44:47 JST Mastodon Migration

     @tokyo_0

     Weird stuff. Probably a lot more craziness to come.

     Edit: Great catch by the way!

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 17-Dec-2023 12:19:19 JST mcc

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     @tokyo_0 Hi, just trying to understand, is annihilation dot social "running" the bot or is it simply allowing the bot to be hosted on its instance? (Not that it would be easy to tell which is happening, I guess.)

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     nellie-m (nellie_m@autisticpri.de)'s status on Sunday, 17-Dec-2023 12:26:55 JST nellie-m

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     @tokyo_0 @mastodonmigration

     except annihilation is on the most basic 100% list at Oliphant’s and if a server doesn’t at the very least use that list, I don’t know what to tell you.

     https://codeberg.org/oliphant/blocklists/src/branch/main/blocklists

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 17-Dec-2023 12:46:34 JST mcc

     @tokyo_0 yeah. I'm actually not sure if it's even possible to get the information the insurance has in an automated way without somewhere running an instance.

     Incidentally— the bot doesn't seem to be *specifically* designed to post Threads blocks, it appears to post just literally all instance blocks. However, looking at the bot it does seem to be intentionally designed to drive harassment of instances which add blocks :(

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     nellie-m (nellie_m@autisticpri.de)'s status on Sunday, 17-Dec-2023 15:56:01 JST nellie-m

     @tokyo_0

     firstly, if my instance blocks annihilation, a bot hosted there can’t access it to scrape info. So I’m guessing the person who received this message is on an instance that doesn’t block it.

     And if someone even says they got their info from a tool run by one of the known bad instances I would think it’s pretty clear where they’re coming from.

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     Alex :autism: (alex@xim.ca)'s status on Monday, 18-Dec-2023 02:11:17 JST Alex :autism:

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     @tokyo_0@mas.to They quickly degenerate to insults and personal attacks (throwing their toys) when they don't get their way. So mature.

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     Alex :autism: (alex@xim.ca)'s status on Monday, 18-Dec-2023 02:31:43 JST Alex :autism:

     @tokyo_0@mas.to "unlogical" is totally a real word. Did you not know that? /s
     (English might not be his first language so I shouldn't pick on that too much)
     
     What's really illogical is deliberately picking fights with other admins over their own choices that don't affect him in any way. It's really none of his damn business what other instances choose to do. -.- But then again, I'm stating the obvious.
     
     There are more constructive things a 17-year-old can do with their time than deliberately pick fights. I hear good things about hobbies.

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     Alex :autism: (alex@xim.ca)'s status on Monday, 18-Dec-2023 23:48:09 JST Alex :autism:

     @tokyo_0@mas.to The bot seems to publish every defederation event it comes across (not just Threads) & they also have a bot that reports every user block it comes across. (see this)
     If that isn't an obvious vector for abuse, I don't know what is.
     
     On top of that, there's some racist stuff from one of their admins so it's a pretty terrible instance. alt-fedi is quite a deep rabbit hole to go down.