Ten Forward Moderation Announcement

[jerry@infosec.exchange]

@kuoirad @InkomTech please do report spam when you see it

[raccoon@techhub.social]

@ocdtrekkie
I will point out, there are a lot of servers that block mastodon.social for the reason being cited here: it has the biggest problem with Spam bots and trolls.

There are a few other large, general purpose instances, which are less likely to be blocked by a given server. You might consider moving to one of them.

[inkomtech@infosec.exchange]

@jerry @kuoirad hey, my (halfway sure) apologies to I.e people. I think what I’m seeing is due to my asking to see a hashtag in my feed. No idea how I did it and will spend time relearning. I just became aware of a steady uptick in spammy toots and clicked a particularly-bad one’s author Saturday to unfollow, only to learn I wasn’t following them. Clicked a few more and same. Took until a cuppa coffee and a bit more engaged thinking today to conclude maybe it’s this, not the instance going “freemium” or whatever.

[jerry@infosec.exchange]

@InkomTech @kuoirad you can still report posts that are clearly spam, even if not from here.

[inkomtech@infosec.exchange]

@jerry @kuoirad the one that focused in my attention was ‘on this date in history #, thing happened. It wouldn’t have if they’d used Our Product bla bla bla…’. The scantiest thread of connection…

And where I’m asking for hashtags like Infosec, cybersecurity or the likes, it feels like a grey shade, icky but not worth whinging to an overworked & volunteer moderator team.

That said, I’ll go looking for it. Maybe bruised knuckles or a harsh warning will be enough to deter them.

[seachanged@mastodon.social]

@Raccoon @ocdtrekkie

Please name two, unless you are concerned about "shock loading" their user creation components. You could save a lot of people a lot of trouble.

[raccoon@techhub.social]

@seachanged @ocdtrekkie
List of general servers #Mastodon.social users can move to, taken from the bigger list (which I recommend looking at) at...
https://joinMastodon.org/servers

In #NorthAmerica...
mstdn.party
universeodon.com

In #SouthAmerica (like #Brasil)...
cwb.social

In #Europe...
ohai.social
mas.to

In #Africa...
mastodon.africa
convo.casa

In #MiddleEast...
paktodon.asia
masr.social

In #Asia...
toot.funami.tech
famichiki.jp

In #Australia...
theblower.au

[raccoon@techhub.social]

@seachanged @ocdtrekkie
I wrote out a whole post just now for you and then accidentally totally deleted it.

https://joinMastodon.org/servers has a whole list that people can select their continent and a topic through. That's what I recommend over any recommendation I could give, especially since some of those servers are for specific marginalized groups and have moderation geared for them.

[julian]

@[email protected] @[email protected] For what it's worth, your post was preserved here: https://community.nodebb.org/post/https%3A%2F%2Ftechhub.social%2Fusers%2FRaccoon%2Fstatuses%2F113505643629004272

So the content is preserved!

[ocdtrekkie@mastodon.social]

@Raccoon I think what @seachanged meant was two servers that block mastodon.social. (Not just limit it.) For years I have heard many single user instances loudly talk about everyone defederating mastodon.social but it remains basically a complete fiction. Even people who have blocked *Threads* get pushback from users who want to interact with it.

[ocdtrekkie@mastodon.social]

@julian @Raccoon Fedi software failing to handle deletes properly is not really a good thing.

[julian]

@[email protected] Correct. NodeBB does handle deletes (barring some regression), and it likely wasn't federated to me.

[raccoon@techhub.social]

@julian @ocdtrekkie
Considering it wasn't a full delete, but an accidental one, it might have not federated because the delete command might not have been clear.

[raccoon@techhub.social]

@ocdtrekkie @seachanged
Mastodon.Art, obviously, but that's the biggest one. I know I've talked to admins in the past who have blocked it completely, and apparently that's what TenForward is doing. (Personally, I think they should drop it to a limit, but it's their server to run, and their judgement call to make)

A while back I was trying to make a list of servers that did or didn't block threads, so that users could switch between them, and so we could coordinate within the tech servers over whether more of us should be blocking them. I don't remember why I got sidetracked, I think that was right before I got COVID in the summer.

[raccoon@techhub.social]

@seachanged @ocdtrekkie
List of general servers #Mastodon.social users can move to, taken from the bigger list (which I recommend looking at) at...
https://joinMastodon.org/servers

In #NorthAmerica...
mstdn.party
universeodon.com

In #SouthAmerica (like #Brasil)...
cwb.social

In #Europe...
ohai.social
mas.to

In #Africa...
mastodon.africa
convo.casa

In #MiddleEast...
paktodon.asia
masr.social

In #Asia...
toot.funami.tech
famichiki.jp

In #Australia...
theblower.au

I don't know much about these servers, other than the fact that they are on the list, which means they are in good standing with the central project. People should probably check them before they join them, but this is a good quick list if someone is just looking to move off of .Social without doing a lot of research.

[ocdtrekkie@mastodon.social]

@Raccoon @seachanged As far as I know, .art has never fully defederated .social. And guinan's post you replied to was announcing a limit, not a defederation.

But again, if they suspend that would be a reason for people to leave those servers, not a reason for me to move because of their choices.

[raccoon@techhub.social]

@ocdtrekkie @seachanged
Huh, you're right. For some reason I read it as a full block...

[raccoon@techhub.social]

@InkomTech @jerry @kuoirad
Just wanted to chime in: about 90% of the activity we catch, on our server, is because non-moderators report it. The number one reason rule infractions stay up as long as they do is because people don't report it.

We have had multiple incidents where we were called out, as a server, on stuff like FediBlock, for accounts that had never been reported.

When you see spam, harassment, anything you think Moderation might want to know about, click the report button. We can only handle what we see.

- TechHub Moderation