#MastodonModeration

Parade du Grotesque ๐Ÿ’€ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-04-21

New rule: if your IP address traces back to PacketHub you will not be allowed to create an account.

Sorry, not sorry.

#MastodonModeration

Je boost deux de mes propres pouets faits sur mamot.fr car ils n'รฉtaient pas diffusรฉs vers leur tags respectifs: j'ai รฉtรฉ mis au ban par la quadrature du net.

J'en reparlerai: ma petite personne n'est pas importante mais รงa serait ennuyeux que รงa vous arrive (aprรจs 8000 pouets sur huit ans!). Devriez toujours vous faire un compte jumeau sur une 2e instance. Je compte aller aussi sur cosocial.ca au cas oรน FACil me barre aussi ๐Ÿ˜†

#moderation #MastodonModeration

2025-03-20

Question for Moderators
(Thx for offering us space to ask)
@quintessence

How effective are the current tools in helping you to counter mis-information (and dis-information) especially during election times?

Do the current tools provide powerful assistance to counter these threats? If not what are the next few logical features youโ€™d love to see developed and incorporated into mastodon (be it for mods or ussrs)?

#MastodonModeration #Misinformation #Disinformation

Parade du Grotesque ๐Ÿ’€ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-03-20

Thanks for suspending the freysa.ai instance @SDF !

#MastodonModeration #Fediblock

A small screenshot, showing the suspension of the domains 'freysa.ai' and 'social.freysa.ai'.
TKb0iZ ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ดTKb0iZ@sunny.garden
2025-03-19

#Fediblock akashdigi22 @ mastodon.world and report their Payhip store for selling get rich quick scheme type products
#MastodonModeration
(I know sunny.garden isn't affected but still)

Spam comment
Parade du Grotesque ๐Ÿ’€ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-03-18

Here is an example of the astroturf bot activity from social.freysa.ai - I think that should be enough to block this instance far and large.

#MastodonModeration #Fediblock

An example of bots parroting the same message, with slight variation, from social.freysa.ai
Parade du Grotesque ๐Ÿ’€ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-03-18

So, today was a slight wave of Tesla-supporting spammers from 'social.freysa.ai' - something like 20-25 accounts suspended so far.

@SDF - could you please block this whole instance? Thanks!

For other moderators and administrators, please note this is a fairly obvious astroturf campaign - all accounts are extremely suspicious and feature AI generated profile pix and post continuously AI-generated text.

#MastodonModeration #fediblock

An account named 'marco' from the instance 'social.freysa.ai' with nonsense bio. AI-generated profile picture and a post supporting Tesla, reported by one user at SDF.
Parade du Grotesque ๐Ÿ’€ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-03-09

Some people should not be allowed anywhere near a Mastodon instance.

This being said, please suspend "social.freysa.ai" these guys are spamming us with badly created bots spreading a stupid message about "Gravity as Entropy".

Suspend them all and block the instance. 36 suspensions and counting...

#MastodonModeration
#fediblock

Parade du Grotesque ๐Ÿ’€ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-03-05

Here is the kicker: the fact that mastodon.social is spamming the rest of the Fediverse is clearly visible in the pie chart - that big greenish chunk? That's how much their lack of moderation is costing everyone else.

(Also: too many people use the name 'mastodon' for their instance)

#MastodonModeration

A pie chart summarizing the amount of accounts suspended from different instance.

The largest chunk is from the instance "mastodon.social".
2025-03-04

You know what's cool? My account is open. People who want to follow me can without me authorizing it.

That said, the moderators have paused a few people from following me without my permission. One was a new account with only spam looking posts. The most current one was a new account with 5 followers and was following 1.7K accounts in 15 days. The posts looked like stolen images.

A brilliant shout out to my moderators on a job well done.

#MastodonModeration #Moderation

Parade du Grotesque ๐Ÿ’€ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-03-04

Just kicked out 21 accounts posting the exact same spam porn hashtags.

The vast majority of which came from mastodon.social - of course.

To all SDF users: please continue blocking and reporting these accounts, the moderation team will try to dispatch them as quickly as possible. We apologize for any inconvenience.

@Gargron - clean up your act, your instance is spamming the rest of the Fediverse.

#MastodonModeration

Les capsules du prof Lutzlutzray@mamot.fr
2025-01-22

Pinging @raph ! GPUs are cool, but moderation is important too... And algorithmic moderation has a lot in common with attack-resistant trust metric, no? ๐Ÿ˜
Wouldn't you pick up this fight again? You could help Mastodon step up to @pluralistic wishes... Defending his backing of Bluesky, here he praises Bluesky Composable Moderation approach:

#BlastFromThePast #PlatformModeration #MastodonModeration #TrustMetric

Screen grab of text from Cory Doctorow, it reads:

Bluesky is fine. It has features I significantly prefer to Mastodon's equivalent. Composable moderation is amazing, both a technical triumph and a triumph of human-centered design: https://bsky.social /about/blog/4-13-2023-moderation

I hope Mastodon adopts those features. If someone starts a project to copy all of Bluesky's best features over to Mastodon, I'll put my name to the crowdfunding campaign in a second.
RoundSparrow ๐ŸฆRoundSparrow
2024-12-20

The system on the website does not let you READ the message they claim violates policy.

They also do not QUOTE which words were a problem. They just remove it so you can no longer even read what you said before. You can't even read YOUR OWN MESSAGE!

What kind of thinking is this?

Parade du Grotesque ๐Ÿ’€ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org
2024-12-13

If your user name is "MercyJohn" or an interesting approximation of an SHA256 hash value, your request to join is going to be denied. WITH EXTREME PREJUDICE.

Mastodon Admins: please take note.

#MastodonModeration

Parade du Grotesque ๐Ÿ’€ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org
2024-12-08

Reasons for joining: "My business specializes in office furniture, ergonomic chairs. I want to build an independent server system inside the network. Interact and exchange information with my customers. I want to join the community, thank you. "

Yes, I know, you have applied now about 4 times. I give you points for being honest about what you'd like to do, but it has a name: "spam". And we don't like spam, so another one of your applications is DENIED, thank you very much.

#MastodonModeration

Parade du Grotesque ๐Ÿ’€ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org
2024-11-22

OK everyone, after the B.S. from mastodon.social we are now seeing a spam wave from mstdn.jp

Modus Operandi is pretty much the same every time: user name is a bunch of random letters (fczpp and ckthh for the last 2), the avatar is an anime girl and the request is to buy them a 'wearable egg' (???) along with a bunch of seriously suspect links.

SDF users: do not click on the links, click on report then block and we will take it from there.

#MastodonModeration

Parade du Grotesque ๐Ÿ’€ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org
2024-11-18

We are facing again a bunch of spammers coming from ... the usual instance:

isvgd6y@mastodon.social
yvdxhqacu@mastodon.social
sankerkk@mastodon.social lyyubouhdbsjs@mastodon.social
mnjbfvrtwt3@mastodon.social
ohjihnd@mastodon.social
gojylsnujv@mastodon.social ygvfaweszv@mastodon.social vcvwvwvsw@mastodon.social

Thanks to the SDF users & to all the hard working SDF moderators clicking on Suspend.

mastodon.social - please CLEAN UP your act or stop accepting new users!
#MastodonModeration

It's times like the last 2 - 3 days with the large amount of spam that we've gotten that #AllThingsTech is certainly in need of someone who is active and a moderator.

Someone who can help handle all of the reports from those spam attacks.

Also worth mentioning, it would be nice to have a moderator who is going to actively speak about the instance and help it grow in various ways.

#MastoMod #Moderator #Moderation #MastodonModeration #MastodonModerator #SpamAttacks

An image with a dark background and the words Random Thoughts in a peach colored font with an orange shadow.
Parade du Grotesque ๐Ÿ’€ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org
2024-10-08
2024-09-20

@root@mindly.social @mindly.social@mindly.social

We have received a bunch of empty Admin Reports from
@mindly.social and 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

![Silenced mindly.social by matrix.rocks](image.png){width=280px}

## About mindly.social

A review of their instance shows us a miss configured instance

Host 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 running
mindly.com
mindly.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.

* contact@mindly.social
*
@root@mindly.social
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...
![9y8vfzoqyw](image1.png)

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

Client Info

Server: https://mastodon.social
Version: 2025.04
Repository: https://github.com/cyevgeniy/lmst