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#MastoAdmin #Fediblock #fediadmin

# 🚨Mod Announcement🚨
Decision to Defederate from Pixelfed Instances

Our instance, chaosfem.tw, has made the decision to defederate from Pixelfed instances, at least for the time being. We feel the need to announce this as it may affect our users-- Pixelfed claims to have 150,000 monthly active users. Some of our own users have accounts there and likewise many of our users interact with other Pixelfed accounts from our instance.

## Why?
Pixelfed is leaking our data, and, it seems, the data of any other instance it federates with on Mastodon. We've been confused and tracking this for some time, but have been uncertain what was happening exactly. This post sums up the issue better than I can:

https://fokus.cool/2025/03/25/pixelfed-vulnerability.html

It's clear that this leak is not a priority for Dansup, the sole maintainer of Pixelfed.

However, it's a danger for instances like ours, with vulnerable users, but realistically, it's a danger for any instance to expect privacy and have it neglected and disrespected to this degree.

## Will we federate with Pixelfed instances in the future?
Idk, possibly? But at the very least, we must have assurance that a particular pixelfed instance has been updated to v1.12.5 in order for us to even consider federating again. However, there are serious concerns about the fact that Pixelfed is run by someone who is hostile and neglectful to the Mastodon community and has a history of not taking security concerns seriously. And moreover, Pixelfed doesn't even have federated blocking implemented, so the only thing that can be done is to defederate, and even then, this only affects *new* posts.

## Difficulty
Like Mastodon, Pixelfed is a separate project built on ActivityPub protocol, so it's not as simple as blocking another instance. This is blocking the entire project, and the instances running it. We don't make this decision lightly, and we hope you understand why we felt this necessary to protect our users who deserve an expectation of privacy.

@MzAprilDaniels @Eilistraee @lulu #fediblock

What's #ThatThing that #Happens when you're a #BloviatingCuntard and #TheBots you #RelyUpon to #KeepBoosting the #Fakebook / #RedditPosts you've #CopyPasta-ed from #OtherPeople without #Attribution are about to be #Defederated...

Shall we #FuckAroundAndFindOut... | #LookNoQuestionMark

#ForTheSpamBots...! #FediBlock is #FitForPurpose

🧙⚔️🤖🐺🤖⚔️🧙 | :fediverse:🦹:loading:🦄:loading:🦹:fediverse:

Watch out from NSFW spam bots, I have suspended iSloot at mastodon.social

please fediblock this iSloot for nsfw content

#fediblock #MastoAdmin

Mastodon World seems to have been invaded.
I’ve had a few of these over the last few days
#Toodles #BlockityBlock #Fediblock

@graf
I don't remember if Poast was around for this, but an android fedi app added a list of domains that it would not make any requests to, because the developer thought Google was twisting their arm to do so. Once Google clarified (or was made aware of how fedi works), he took the list out.

The list was gab, another gab domain, and one other instance I don't remember.

When he took the list out, some very disturbed individuals basically gangstalked him and started a campaign to #fediblock any instance that didn't ban users for using his "nazi app"

I asked for and received permission to explain to one of them that such a block does not stop someone from forking the app or just using a browser to access Gab, that the developer shouldn't be asked to adjudicate requests/demands for instances to be added, and that it would encourage oppressive governments (like Saudi Arabia) to demand additions of their own, for example, because such countries don't allow LGBT-related content. I asked why are they going after fedi apps and not DNS providers.

The response? DNS providers are coming next, I don't know anything about anything, paradoxotolerance is a clear cut rubric and must be followed, and how dare I not understand the colonial cisnormativity of etc etc etc

They then proceeded to tell anybody who would listen, for a period of months, that I'm a super ultra mega nazi (I'm not) who has flag themed clothes (I don't) and probably rapes women (I'm gay), and that if people wanted to stand up for marginalized people they need to find me and punch me, and repeatedly posted fantasies mostly revolving around punching me.

This caused me to get passed around #fediblock because nobody checks or requires receipts for anything.

They blocked me, on an instance that already suspends mine. So when I posted screenshots of their profile I pulled up on their instance in a normal, not-even-private browser tab, they went around telling anybody who would listen that I was using a "hacked" Mastodon that bypasses blocks. This continued any time I posted a screenshot of this individual being absolutely unhinged towards someone they supposedly didn't want communication with. Repeated reminders of how literally anybody can open a profile up in a browser and how login sessions don't fucking carry across websites like that didn't stop the abuse. Another round on fediblock for using a "hacked" Mastodon, with absolutely no evidence or receipts or an explanation of what that even means.

In response to *all of this horseshit*, I said publicly "I'm going to perform an act that you would view as equally disrespectful as how you've been over the past few months. I'm calling you a guy. Please keep a note of how you feel now that I've called you a guy man dude bro, and consider being respectful towards others in the future, sir."

This caused me to get passed around fediblock a third time. This time for transmisamisa, my horrible terrible act of gross violence towards trans people was none other than performatively, one time, not respecting the gender identity of someone who had now spent multiple months committing gross acts of libel and slander and causing police to visit my place on some bullshit.

At this point, I began discussing Section 230 publicly, as it was in the news. Various politicians including the president were talking about amending or repeating it. I gave an explainer to a bunch of people with examples, the example being Octodon and how the legal process for how I would go about either finding kysalicia (my then-new name for 'kitsunealicia', the disturbed individual in question) to serve legal process for libel, or holding Octodon liable for it, would differ with and without Section 230 in place.

This caused me to get passed around fediblock a fourth time, this time for legal threats.

But very very shortly after I posted that explainer of how a court would, in such a suit, issue me a stack of blank subpoenas, and I would first issue one to Octodon, and they could either give up kysalicia or be held liable for the libel.... Kysalicia's Octodon account was deleted.

Was she banned or did her grandparents receive the email I sent them? Who knows. Who cares?

Yesterday I made a test, warned against this account with a hashtag of the name and a certain bird, and promptly got the #scam again. It's the sign that this paragon of a #troll factory or a narcissistic bot tinkerer hopping instances is not reacting randomly. Don't just block it, it's important to #report it so that it finally comes to an end. Don't click the links. If it's #scraping, a joke, or an attack on the Fediverse: a #fediblock would be fine! The phrase pattern could be filtered.

#Fediblock
White racial harassment. Please report abuse.

From: @johannab
https://cosocial.ca/@johannab/114192395270566719

⚠️ FEDIVERSE WARNING - FEDIBLOCK ⚠️

🇬🇧 English version below.

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🇪🇦 URGE #fediblock a freysa.ai / social.freysa.ai

Esta instancia cuenta 1500 usuarios, todos ellos generados por IA, enviando spam random al fediverso en forma de estados con #hashtags creando falsos trendings. Se han detectado 1787915 estados generados por IA con #hashtags mientras escribo esto. (ver imagenes)

Ejemplo, ver linea local:
- https://social.freysa.ai/api/v1/instance
- https://social.freysa.ai/public/local

Esto además, puede causar que las bases de datos de las instancias con las que federe gasten recursos y espacio en disco innecesarios almacenando esta basura.

Estas cuentas generadas por IA y con estados podrian usarse para realizar ataques de SPAM a usuarios del fediverso con @mentions
--

🇬🇧 URGENT #fediblock to freysa.ai / social.freysa.ai

This instance has 1500 users, all of them AI-generated, sending random spam to the fediverse in the form of posts with #hashtags that create fake trending topics. As I write this, 1,787,915 AI-generated posts with #hashtags have been detected (see images).

Example, see local endpoint:
- https://social.freysa.ai/api/v1/instance
- https://social.freysa.ai/public/local

This can also cause the databases of federated instances to waste resources and disk space by unnecessarily storing this garbage.

These AI-generated accounts and posts could be used to carry out SPAM attacks on fediverse users using @mentions.

- Trankten :tkz:

Fediverse Report #106

IFTAS is shutting down most of their services following a lack of funding, and Tumblr-like platform Wafrn now has its own apps, and a Bluesky integration to boot.

The fediverse trust and safety organisation IFTAS has announced it is shutting down most of its services, following a lack of funding. Last month the organisation said that they would soon run out of funding, and that they’d do a final effort at getting structural funds for the organisation. This has not happened, and now IFTAS will shut down most of their services. The biggest project to be shut down is IFTAS’ Content Classification Service, a service which handled CSAM scanning and reporting for fediverse servers. When fediverse server admins encounter CSAM, most countries have mandatory reporting requirements that admins are obliged to follow. Another project that is shutting down is FediCheck, which provides shared deny lists that server could use to build their own deny lists for their servers.

IFTAS shutting down their services is a double blow to the fediverse. The obvious one is that functions like IFTAS’ Content Classification Service were aiming to provide a service that filled an crucial gap in the operations of many fediverse servers. Scanning for CSAM, and handling the legal requirements on reporting to the relevant agencies is a challenging task for server admins to execute, and many fediverse servers do not have good procedures in place to handle this delicate process. IFTAS’ CCS would have provided a way for smaller fediverse server to handle the legal obligations they have regarding handling CSAM.

The second blow to the fediverse is in that IFTAS fills an important role in building a collaborative structure for moderation across fediverse servers. The fediverse is a network of independent places (servers), and while they are interconnected on a technical level via a protocol, building connections between servers for collaborations is proving to be much harder. Over the years there have been many suggestions and ideas on how fediverse servers could work together, for example regarding on sharing information on which servers to block. These conversations currently take place mainly via admin backchannels or via the #fediblock hashtag, and a more structural interface could help streamline this process. For such a process to work trust is needed between fediverse server admins to participate with such infrastructure. IFTAS, as a grassroots fediverse organisation, is one of the best-placed organisations to have build trust and provide a nexus around which such infrastructure could be build. IFTAS got pretty far with their rollout of FediCheck, which was building such a place for collaboration between server admins. Now that IFTAS will not be the center around which shared moderation infrastructure can be build, will there be another organisation in the future to do so? Especially when IFTAS found out that getting funding for such a project is so difficult?

Fediverse platform Wafrn has announced they now have apps for Android and iOS available in testing. I have not talked about Wafrn much, but it is one of the more interesting fediverse platforms that is currently being worked on. Wafrn is a Tumblr-inspired platform that clearly does not take itself too seriously: the name stands for “We Allow Female Representing Nipples“. It is a reference to a decision by Tumblr to ban adult content, and they used the phrase “Female-presenting Nipples” in their community guidelines which became a target of ridicule. Wafrn has a variety of unique features, such as a place to ask and answer questions for the Wafrn community. The most standout feature of Wafrn however is a native integration of both ActivityPub and ATProto. A Wafrn account allows you to have a full connection with the fediverse, as well as with Bluesky. On the fediverse, your account is visible as @name@app.wafrn.net, while on Bluesky your account is visible as @name.at.wafrn.net. Because this is not a bridge, and instead a native integration, a Wafrn account can interact with any Bluesky and fediverse account, other accounts are not required to opt-in in order to connect.

One criticism that often gets put at Bluesky from people within the fediverse is that it has not federated yet. I do not think that ‘federation’ is a helpful term to help understand ATProto actually works, see this article for more context. However, the interoperability between Bluesky and Wafrn does involve interoperability between servers over ATProto, making that Bluesky and Wafrn are federated in the way people on the fediverse understand the term federation. The fact that an app called “We Allow Female Representing Nipples” is what makes Bluesky federated is honestly extremely funny to me.

Link aggregator platform PieFed has added support for feeds. Feeds on PieFed are similar to how multi-reddits work on Reddit: it allows you to create a custom feed that displays posts from multiple communities. Feeds can also be shared, allowing people to follow a feed that others have created. Feeds on PieFed are somewhat similar to their Topics feature. Topics are also a collection of multiple fediverse communities around a certain theme. The main difference between topics and feeds is that topics are created by the server owner, and set for the entire server. With feeds, anyone can create and share one, and you can also follow feeds from other PieFed servers.

• Timeline app Tapestry has gotten an investment by Tumblr.
• WeDistribute writes about Funkwhale and their decision to filter out far-right music.
• Ghost‘s weekly update on their ActivityPub implementation
• Xenon is a new fediverse client app for iOS
• Fireside Fedi is a interview series on PeerTube, and this week they’re talking with one of the people behind ActivityPods.
• This week’s fediverse software updates.

That’s all for this week, thanks for reading! You can subscribe to my newsletter to get all my weekly updates via email, which gets you some interesting extra analysis as a bonus, that is not posted here on the website. You can subscribe below:

#fediblock #fediverse

https://fediversereport.com/fediverse-report-106/

#fediblock
social.freysa.ai appears to be a completely AI generated spam instance, related to some sort of NFT grift.

Had the displeasure to have it appear in my feed thanks to a hashtag I follow.

🖕 FUCK OFF NICOLE! 🖕

#Nicole #NoBot #Bot #Bots #Scam #Scams #FediBlock

What is the state of latest collective self-moderation theory and practice?
What would a configurable opt-in algorithmic #fediblock look like?
#collectiveSelfModeration

so i said i wouldnt check the fediblock hashtag. i am not going to. i received this DM from an eldritch.cafe mod after trying to explain the situation i'm in. they said they wouldn't explain any further so yea, idk. i have some questions about their points they are making.

1. "based" is racist, or anti-lgbt, anti-woke, etc... depending of context. Anyway, you cannot use it. Period. Some people can, in a specific context, but you are not part of them.

what is this "specific context"? i dont understand this.

Your toots and your behaviour was racist

if you're on about what I said to are0h like a year ago? yes, it was in bad taste, and it was wrong of me. i dont see how "based" is a racist word though.

You cannot demand forgiveness.

I am not. im asking for an explanation on how this "based" word is "racist", but no one can explain why. therefore, i dont see a problem with using it.

"this is double standard" : they are part of the people who can use it.

so non-binary white ppl can use it? so you're saying that if you're queer or non-binary you can use it? i genuinely dont understand. why are they allowed to use it but im not?

Asking repeatedly to involved people is not okay.

I am aware yes.

anyway, until eldritch.cafe can explain what this "context" means or if someone else can, I am posting a #fediblock of eldritch.cafe for falsely accusing me of racism.