Notices by Raccoon🏳️‍🌈 (raccoon@techhub.social)

@lepidotos @curiousgawker
Yeah whenever this sort of targeted attack happens, I think of all the mass shooters, violent authoritarian politicians, and mass deaths from corporate policies which are coming out of the ideology these people are pushing. I don't think it's a good strategy, and I'm not going to condone it, but it's not really troubling to me to hear that people who endanger other people's lives have found their own lives in danger as a direct consequence of their own actions...

#PSA
#Mastodon, nor the #Fediverse in general will never ask you to "verify" with payment details, especially not from a non-moderator account. If you get a message asking you to verify, it is a #Scam #Bot, and you should block and #report it to #moderation.

We are currently getting a wave of #spam from bots like this. Again, do not even click the link, just block and report.

@Fedicate
Sounds good! Please keep making things, and don't be too upset by the way some people are phrasing their feedback.

@BeAware @Fedicate
I'm sorry that there's people that get way too aggressive about this. Like I said, there really needs to be more tools for de-escalation and more cohesiveness, but everyone seems to be pouring into tools for reporting and blocking and fighting. When I saw the post on FediBlock, I wanted to tell that person to calm down, but I worried that would make it worse.

I don't know that the so-called "Fedi Mafia"is really much of a mafia as opposed to just a small group of people who go a little too aggressive when they see stuff like this, but yes, that is a bit of a problem because it scares off people who are making things in good faith.

Like I said, the person who made this is clearly talented and dedicated, I just don't think more tools for this sort of thing are really what we need right now. Honestly, I would rather see a system for endorsing profiles first.

@Fedicate
I'm going to be honest with you.

This is an interesting concept, but I am seeing a bunch of problems with it, and not seeing a reason to use this over the existing moderator report system. In fact, I worry that people will use this instead of the report button, which is already a massive problem with #FediBlock, along with the trolling and harassment that goes on with that tag.

This seems to just be FediBlock with extra steps.

I also want to note, if this is only negative reports, you will have the drawback of some of the most popular and/or insightful people having the most reports, because that's who's getting that traffic. If you are really dead set on doing this, you really should have a system that lets people say a person is good, like that they are credible or make good content, so that those negative reports can be outweighed by people vouching for the person.

And once again, that's a problem with FediBlock too: we don't need more tools for shaming. We need more deescalation.

@Fedicate
And I'm sorry you're receiving such negative and mean comments on this, because I really do think this was a good faith attempt at something, and I really don't want to discourage you here, but just looking at this I'm already seeing so many problems... I'm just saying you are clearly talented, and you have dedication and desire to do good, and your time would probably be better spent elsewhere.

Little #PSA to combat #misinformation, because apparently half of #US #Citizens don't know this: #NATO is a #Military #Defense #Alliance between the #USA and #Canada and most of #Europe. The main rule for joining is that the country must be a stable #Democracy with protections on human rights. The main terms of the treaty are that, if one country is attacked unprovoked, on their own soil, the others must send immediate military assistance, and counties must keep up a minimum military to be able to both defend themselves and come to the defense of others.

NATO is not a #trade agreement, though it does facilitate trade agreements to encourage peace.

NATO is not an #expansionist force. NATO is a pro-democracy force.

NATO is not anti-Russia, as #Russia was invited to join in the 90s. #Putin is anti-NATO because it's effectiveness limits his power.

NATO has only been called into one war: the US invasion of Afghanistan, with the triggering event being 9/11, when the US was attacked directly.

#News reports coming on from DeadBirdSite that #ElonMusk is apparently upset that people are calling #Tesla #ElectricVehicles "#Swasticars", after his open and flagrant use of #NeoNazi rhetoric and the #Nazi salute at Trump's inauguration last week.

The bigger question... Can we make #Swasticar the new trending hashtag for talking about #Teslas on the #Fediverse?

https://x.com/HalfwayPost/status/1883270707783840094

#TwitterMigration #Resist #FediResistance

@mart_brooks
Okay, that is a way of looking at it.

So to follow this up, who is disagreeing with the idea that people don't have a biological sex, and why do you think that's important enough to talk about this way?

Just another reminder to report people to moderation before posting on #FediBlock. Just today, I saw moderation clearly active on MSTDN trying to ban all the accounts that roll on a rotating IP made, but missing some of the accounts because they hadn't all been reported.

Even if mods are aware something is going on, reports give us a way to solve the problem in a couple clicks.

Generally speaking, you don't need to make a public call out until moderation is either ignoring it or directly involved, and people using this hashtag for accounts that haven't been reported has been an ongoing problem.

@mart_brooks
What about intersex conditions?

Also, why is this so important, on a societal level?

@mynameistillian
Hey @stux, you have a FediBlock here because of a user who has been repeatedly signed up for accounts on MSTDN to harass people on the network, ban and block evading, calling people "Zoophiles", etc.

We aren't going to do anything here, but please figure out a way to stop the troll from spamming and harassing.

- TechHub Moderation

@stux @mynameistillian
Yeah, I was guessing they're rotating their IP. Remember that, if they're all from a certain range, you can restrict that range to be approval-based.

I'll keep reporting them when I see them. Good luck.

- TechHub Moderation

CC @mawr because she was tagged in as staff.

Just reposting to the #FediBlock tag that @stux has put #MSTDN signups on Manual Approval for now, which should stop the harassment / spam from that one disgruntled guy. If you were blocking over this, please unblock them, as they are otherwise good about handling this sort of thing.

Also tagging, because they should be more used, #InstanceBlock, #FediUnblock, #FediReconciliation, #FediAdmin.

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@BeAware
I try to keep track of it because some of the worst actors on the network show up on there pretty often, and even though a lot of them are repeats, it's a quick way to know when a new one has shown up.

@BeAware
Well of course you didn't, if you did you probably wouldn't have boosted, lol. :blobcatlaugh:

But yeah, it's not obvious what's going on until you see the rest of the #FediBlock hashtag today...

Hey @BeAware, I saw you boosted this, and just wanted to let you know that david here is being blocked by a chunk of the network for what appears to be a targeted harassment campaign against some staff members he doesn't like, and just forced MSTDN into Account Approval mode by repeatedly spamming them with rotated IPs to Ban and Block evade.

- TechHub Moderation

#SpamBot Alert for #Moderator / #Admin teams...

I'm seeing a bot making the rounds which leaves the message "1-Click to Freedom", with a promise to "Erase Up to $100K Debt Instantly" and an obviously fraudulent link. If you have an automated system, go ahead and set it flag that.

#FediSpam #FediBlock #FediMod

@lispi314 @craignicol @dalias @mekkaokereke
I want to note something, as the person in charge of moderation on a major server: there is a lot that can be done and hasn't with non-AI based automated moderation. Why is there not a feature built into Mastodon to...

- automatically report posts with racial slurs when they show up?

- automatically report when a user posts the same link several times in a row?

- automatically report when a user from your instance has been mentioned or linked on a hashtag like FediBlock?

- remind users of the report button when they get PMs that might be potential harassment?

We don't need AI. It would be wasteful, very costly, and likely have serious trust and reliability issues. We just need better systems to be built in by default to help us volunteers catch things quickly.

Like remember this next time someone tries to tell you that capitalism is good and makes us all prosperous and builds all this infrastructure, capitalism destroys a lot of infrastructure too. Allowing large Capital movers to just make broad sweeping decisions like that that affect everyone else in the market so deeply and thoroughly, that basically torch billions of dollars worth of investment, is a chaotic environment, not conducive to long-term development or stability.

#Capitalism is bad for #Business.