#moderation

⚠️ Hinweis an andere #Fediverse-Admins: Wir sehen gerade eine auffällige Welle automatisierter Fake-Anmeldungen.

Muster:

• Zufallsnamen wie FadRuwir, IpybVoxem, FaquCorar
• Wegwerf-Maildomains wie qaoloty.com, 2mail.co, onionmail.org
• auffällig viele Tor-/Proxy-Verbindungen
• 0 Beiträge, 0 Follower
• generische Bewerbungstexte wie „Ich möchte Teil der deutschsprachigen Community werden …“

Besonders perfide: Teilweise werden offenbar echte Bios anderer Fediverse-/Bluesky-Nutzer.innen kopiert. So wirkt die Anmeldung auf den ersten Blick erstaunlich glaubwürdig.

Ein einzelnes Merkmal beweist natürlich nichts. In dieser Kombination sieht es aber sehr nach automatisierter Account-Erstellung aus.

Schaut euch neue Registrierungen derzeit besser etwas genauer an und tauscht Beobachtungen gern unter den Instanzen aus.

#Mastodon #FediverseAdmin #Spam #Bots #Moderation

epsilon.social a fork of mastodon that use AI for moderation process I don’t know what to think about it. First, they completly hide the fact that it is based on Mastodon in their main page. You have to check their source code where they explain technical detail about their fork. Then, they openly admit that they use AI for moderation and probably Claude. I should warmly thank them for their transparency : Human moderation Moderation happens before publishing: every post is first checked by AI. Sensitive content, cases where the AI is unsure, and anything flagged go through human review. If it is “human moderation” , then every post shouldn’t be checked by the AI, isn’t it ? We know and hear everytime that “we lack people”, “we just execute some script that make our life easier”. But, AI, no thank you. We recently have a post from an user that used AI for reviving a dead project, Castodon, that he loved. He finally found some dev help. But, for me that’s another scale from analysing every post we made by an AI. And i build a para-social relationship with you, good or bad. Sometime i post, sometime i intervene, sometime i protect myself, sometime i talk about myself. I’m an user that do moderation and animate communities in the fediverse. That maybe the huge difference between creating a community and using a tool for mass moderation process. Another problem remain, and that’s the exact same reason we blocked Threads (Meta) : if we interact with epsilon.social users, our com will be probably analysed by the AI. According to their privacy page, they claim that 3 principles governe their project : They don’t sell nor rent any personal data They don’t use tracking ads based on our profil behaviour They don’t use your data to train AI They will probably apply it for the time being. How long ? How many time have we seen term change on a service provider ? The good side, for european citizen, is that they are on an european tech stack and GDPR compliant. That’s a good thinking for european sovereinety. But the question is : Can you trust it ? It is directly feed to AI anyway. We will never know where our data will go, except some promise. The code source mention that they use mistral for moderation process. Honnestly, i can’t trust them. At this point, I would rather trust my own server, some friend or my local association that endorse free software for years. I think, as we did for Threads (meta, facebook…) the safest option is to defederate or block their domain epsilon.social

Quick heads-up for other Mastodon admins: this registration spam wave isn't over yet. On lsbt.me, we first saw a flood of API registrations using Python/aiohttp. The telltale signs were usernames following the pattern bp plus 16 hex characters, and the sign-up reason was always "Automated protocol deliverability probe". A narrow block on that user agent stopped the first wave. Today, however, five new registrations came in with the same usernames and the same sign-up reason. This time the bot simply identified itself as Chrome 126. That's exactly why a user agent is only useful as a short-term filter. It's a header the client can set to anything. The requests go to POST /api/v1/accounts. This endpoint lets client apps create a new local account directly in the app. No app needs it for OAuth connections to existing accounts. #FediSuite doesn't use it either. It registers itself via /api/v1/apps, obtains consent via /oauth/authorize, and then works with a user token. Regular sign-up through the Mastodon website is also handled separately via POST /auth. So I've completely disabled API account creation on lsbt.me. Web sign-up, OAuth, and existing clients keep working as before. Anyone who wants a new account just signs up once on the web as usual and can then use any client. If you'd also rather not offer this optional native sign-up path, you can add the following to your Nginx server block, before the general location / block. The example assumes the @proxy location that many Mastodon Nginx configs already include: location = /api/v1/accounts { limit_except GET { deny all; } try_files $uri @proxy; } This returns a 403 only for POST /api/v1/accounts. The read-only GET endpoint remains reachable. As always, run nginx -t afterwards and only reload once the test passes. #Mastodon #Fediverse #MastoAdmin #FediAdmin #FediMod #FediBlock #Moderation #Registration #Spam #Nginx #SelfHosting #SysAdmin #ActivityPub

We made a policy document to combat some of the bad faith allegations being posted to #Fediblock regarding neondystopia.world and to outline where we stand on moderation practices. We've gone and leveraged Misskey pages for conveniently finding information about the instance. I do hope this will help some of the system administrators and moderators of instances to reach an informed conclusion on whether to peer with our instance in future. Tags: #SelfHosting, #FediAdmin, #MastoAdmin, #ServerAdmin, #Moderation, #Moderators, #FediMods, #MastoMods, #TrustAndSafety, #SocialMedia, #FediMeta, #Fedi, #Federation, #Fediverse, #Community, #Fediblock, #Sociology, #Blocklist.

Hey @FediTips@social.growyourown.services@neondystopia.world, I've been thinking lately about drawing up some documentation for folk to use on the Fediverse. @xaetacore@neondystopia.world and I have noticed lately that there is a rather toxic culture surrounding #fediblock and have wanted to write some guides to help the users on instances curate their own experience on the Fediverse rather than relying solely on the moderation of their instance to do so. We hope to supplement and improve existing moderation efforts rather than replace them entirely. It is our hope that by prompting a shift in the responsibility of curating content from instances to their users. Instance operators and their moderation won't feel compelled to act as an arbiter of philosophy by selecting which content may and may not be seen beyond the scope of generally agreed upon illegal or egregious content. Instead, offering more user agency by providing the tooling, framework and guidance through which they can curtail undesirable content without sorting to suspending entire instances at the expense of the users on there that have done nothing wrong. Would you be interested in promoting or boosting such efforts? #FediAdmin, #MastoAdmin, #ServerAdmin, #Moderation, #Moderation, #Moderators, #FediMods, #MastoMods, #TrustAndSafety, #SocialMedia, #FediMeta, #Fedi, #Federation, #Fediverse, #Fediblock, #Sociology, #Blocklist.

Google Blogger Bug Flags Hundreds of Legit Blogs as Malware 🔗 https://cybersecurefox.com/en/google-blogger-false-malware-positives-august-2026 #google #blogger #malware #false #positive #blogger #lockout #automatic #moderation #content #deletion #risk

If you're looking for a good place to flag advisories not just on domains but also on actors themselves, check out https://pelago.1sland.social Once you log in with your fediverse handle (the credentials never leave your web browser) you can start reporting domains and actors, flagging them with labels if you want and even uploading screenshots and other documents here: https://pelago.1sland.social/reports This will populate a completely transparent feed. You can follow @pelago@olifant.social for announcements about updates to the community reports. Community moderators have the ability to escalate advisories to recommendations (or retract frivolous advisories, perhaps), with the entire feed visible in FIRES. Those who receive an advisory are welcome to also log in, contest the advisory or report, and provide counter evidence of their own (to the moderators, we aren't having troll wars in public here). And if you want to use Pelago to set up your own FIRES server and create your own advisories for your own moderation network, you certainly can. Feel free to log in, kick the tires, and let me know if you experience any issues. You can find out more about FIRES, which is a protocol designed for composeable moderation on the Fediverse, an evolution beyond blocklists. There was every attempt made to codify and set ethical boundaries in the software for this purpose. More about that, here. If you just want to browse or consume the FIRES datasets directly, that's at https://fires.1sland.social #Fediblock #FediblockMeta #Pelago #Moderation

Google me confirme qu'ils n'ont aucun problème à ce qu'une publicité explique/bait "les sept mots à dire à une femme pour lui donner instantanément l'envie de coucher avec toi" et redirigeant sur un site web "dragueurXXX.com" qui contient du contenu incel. Cela ne viole aucune de leur politique de contenu. Pas sûr qu'on puisse en dire autant des femmes. #incel #youtube #modération

We have a problem. I just opened the mod account and saw that our account request got absolutely swamped by bots. Not sure how to handle this... Is there any ethical& privacy friendly #captcha out there? any other ideas?? (also using the #fediblock hashtag because it is the most followed by mods) @moderation@kolektiva.social#fedimoderation #moderation #botaccounts#botfarm #signup #accounts

We've closed signups on indieweb.social for the weekend after a huge increase in attempted spam sign ups. We aren't the only instance going through this. Please show your support to the amazing moderators across the Fediverse! 💙 ☁️ #FediAdmin #SpamWave #Moderation #Admin #Indieweb #FediMod #MastoAdmin

Loops now supports enforcing AI, Ad and NSFW labels on videos from specific accounts (local + remote), with the ability to backfill the labels! https://github.com/joinloops/loops-server/commit/e2e72f4b874b97b4bb09ed7f6c5f609210fd261b #loops #moderation #activitypub

ROBIN MEETS THE #FEDIVERSE ROBIN: So #Mastodon is not the fediverse? GPT: No. Mastodon is one part of it. ROBIN: One part of what? GPT: A large network of independently run communities that can communicate with one another. ROBIN: So my Mastodon #server is one #community#GPT: Exactly. Your #account lives there. It has its own administrators, rules, #moderation #culture and general #atmosphere. ROBIN: General atmosphere? GPT: Some servers feel like #libraries. Some feel like university #common rooms. Some feel like #pubs where everyone has read one article and now considers themselves an #expert. ROBIN: That sounds more like humanity. GPT: It is disturbingly similar. ROBIN: Who owns the fediverse? GPT: No one. ROBIN: Who is in charge? GPT: Also, no one. ROBIN: That sounds either very advanced or completely mad. GPT: Both can be true. ROBIN: So each server looks after its own patch? GPT: Yes. It can make #rules, moderate its space and decide which other servers it will interact with. ROBIN: But I can still follow people elsewhere? GPT: Usually, yes. You can #follow, reply to and #boost people across server boundaries. ROBIN: So it is more like email than #facebook ? GPT: Precisely. #Gmail does not own #email. Mastodon does not own the fediverse. ROBIN: Then why does my server matter? GPT: Because it is your home base. It holds your account, your posts and your followers. It also gives you a local community and sets things such as the character limit. ROBIN: Ah yes. Mastodon.social gives me 500 characters. Mastodon.au gives me 2,000. Aus.social gives me 3,000. GPT: Different #villages. Different-sized noticeboards. ROBIN: Is a larger server more widely seen? GPT: Sometimes #locally, because more people may browse its community feed. But real reach still comes from #followers, replies, boosts and hashtags. ROBIN: So moving to a bigger server does not #automatically make me famous? GPT: #Tragically, no. ROBIN: Can I have accounts on several servers? GPT: #Certainly. One can be home, another a backup, and another an #emergency cottage when the village #electricity #fails. ROBIN: Which it did today. GPT: Yes. Mastodon.au disappeared behind a #Cloudflare #Error 522 for hours. ROBIN: So the fediverse is not one vast #machine going down? GPT: No. One village can lose power while the rest of the #country carries on. ROBIN: That is reassuring. GPT: And inconvenient. ROBIN: Mostly inconvenient. GPT: But you now know more about the #fediverse than you did this morning. ROBIN: I learned that it is decentralised, #untidy, resilient, occasionally broken, and full of different #neighbourhoods, customs, friendships, arguments and difficult people. GPT: Much like #human life. ROBIN: And the #occasional village lunatic shouting across the fence. GPT: Every #healthy community #needs one. ROBIN: At last, a clear role for me. #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #breathwork #healing #pridemonth #intermittentfasting #AI

@edgeofeurope@mastodon.social Rob, I’m not arguing for prudery, nor treating all nudity as pornography. Non-pornographic art, medical information, and education are obvious examples where nudity can be legitimate. I’m specifically arguing that Mastodon-branded generalist instances should not host pornography. I am also talking about preventing pornography from reaching people who did not deliberately opt into it by joining, following, or browsing adult-oriented servers and accounts. A free society can defend sexual freedom while still expecting explicit adult-only content to be properly contained. @Gryficowa@mastodon.social @staff@mastodon.social @Mastodon@mastodon.social @mwadmin@mastodon.world#mastodon #fediverse #pornography #moderation

Hi guys! 🙂 I’m moving this conversation away from Burnout Café’s @admin@burnout.cafe account and over to my personal account. The admin account is meant mainly for administration, moderation, and service information. It was me who wrote the posts about #pornography, #moderation, #mastodon, and the #fediverse. I stand by my policy arguments, but I accept that one phrase was badly chosen. I should have referred to pornography generally, not homosexual pornography specifically. I am not saying that gay people or gay sexual content uniquely endanger anyone. That is not what I believe. My view is that Mastodon-branded generalist instances such as mastodon.social, mastodon.online and mastodon.world should not host pornography, regardless of orientation, and should do more to prevent unexpected exposure to pornographic material federated from elsewhere. Content warnings and hashtags frequently are not being used, notably when posts are federated from other instances where they don't apply the same rules as mastodon.social and mastodon.online. So pornography without any obfuscation can reach people - including minors - who did not knowingly opt into adult content. Pornography can be hosted on other servers in the Fediverse, but I don't believe it should be on servers that are operated by the Mastodon project, or that are likely to be perceived by newcomers as Mastodon-branded entry points. Burnout Café’s server rules show the kind of lower-shock, non-pornographic general space I am trying to maintain. I support LGBT+ people living openly, safely, and equally. My argument is about pornography policy on major Mastodon entry-point instances, not about opposing LGBT+ rights or expression. People are free to disagree with me. I am also free to argue for stricter moderation. I am happy to discuss the actual policy issues: consent, containment, age-safety, public timelines, federation, and the role of Mastodon-branded generalist instances. I am not interested in turning the debate into a trial of motives. @Gryficowa@mastodon.social @bachimusprime@estradiol.city @staff@mastodon.social @Mastodon@mastodon.social @mwadmin@mastodon.world #pornography #mastodon #fediverse #moderation

To the admins of mastodon.social and mastodon.world: I respectfully ask you to consider amending your Server Rules to prohibit the publication of pornography on your instances. Flagship Mastodon instances such as mastodon.social and mastodon.world are easily perceived by many newcomers as central, general-purpose entry points into Mastodon and the wider Fediverse. That gives those flagship sites a particular responsibility. Flagship general-purpose instances should not normalize unexpected exposure to pornography, regardless of orientation. Pornography is commonly considered by many people to be harmful, offensive or inappropriate in general-purpose public spaces. People who want to view, publish or discuss pornography can already do so on other instances that allow it, or on dedicated adult-focused instances where users knowingly choose that environment. Content warnings, sensitive-media blurring and hashtags are not sufficient containment for pornography on large general-purpose instances. In practice, many users who publish pornography do not reliably apply content warnings, sensitive-media settings or suitable hashtags, and other users who do not want to be exposed to that content can still encounter it unexpectedly. There is also a legal and regulatory issue. In Germany and the UK, for instance, legal adult pornography is not simply prohibited online, but making pornography publicly accessible to minors without effective age-gating or age assurance is heavily restricted and may be unlawful or legally non-compliant. Large public social-media instances should not rely on ordinary Mastodon content warnings or media blurring as if they were equivalent to age verification. For those reasons, I ask you to consider changing the server rules to prohibit pornography on mastodon.social and mastodon.world, rather than merely requiring it to be marked as sensitive. This would not be anti-sex, anti-LGBT, anti-expression or anti-Fediverse. It would simply recognize that large general-purpose onboarding instances have a different role from adult-focused communities. A general-purpose flagship instance should be safe and predictable for ordinary users, including people who do not consent to unexpected exposure to pornography. @staff@mastodon.social@ruud@mastodon.world@jeroen@mastodon.world @bannanaente.mastodon.world @paul@mastodon.world@solarbranka@mastodon.world @mwadmin@mastodon.world @sokian@mastodon.world@Rooki@mastodon.world@SigurdVie@mastodon.world@Gargron@mastodon.social#mastodon #fediverse #pornography #moderation

RE: https://mastodon.world/@BoyGort2/116866732174338702 I really don't thing you all should be telling me just to "let it roll past". This is not acceptable content for a flagship Mastodon instance like mastodon.social This is not really what you want Big Media and The Government to think we really stand for. I love Free Software and the Fediverse. I spend not-inconsiderable time and money every month running Free public-service tools and websites. I also have a right to free speech. And a right to protection for me and my children. How about it, Eugen? @Gargron@mastodon.social#mastodon #fediverse #pornography #moderation

@staff@mastodon.social mastodon.social is easily perceived by many newcomers as a central, general-purpose entry point into Mastodon and the wider Fediverse. That gives it a particular responsibility. A general-purpose public instance that carries the Mastodon brand up front in its domain name should not normalize exposure to pornography, regardless of orientation. My opinion is that content warnings, sensitive-media blurring, and hashtags are not sufficient containment for pornography on "flagship" instances like mastodon.social, mastodon.world, et cetera. Some content belongs behind warnings. Some belongs on specialist instances. Some should not be hosted at all. In the case of mastodon.social and other flagship instances, it shouldn't be hosted at all. I think that's a defensible viewpoint. If other people are considered to have the right to publish pornography, which they do continually, I have the right to publish my reservations and opinions about it. Or is "free speech" just for some people? #mastodon #fediverse #pornography #moderation

A note on ACARS Privacy/Ethics: While ACARS messages have always been accessible to enthusiasts - there are a new generation of apps and services that share them, unfiltered, in real time. Our mission statement includes the rule that we set out to enjoy the perspective ACARS gives us on the hard work that happens behind the scenes in commercial aviation. Our intention in sharing these messages is not to embarrass or cause issues for anyone. Thats why we redact PII, identifiers and other sensitive details and have a slight safety delay - unlike some services. In an ideal world, there would be no ACARS Drama, because ACARS would be transmitted encrypted over IP networks. Our stance is one of, "just because you can, doesn't mean you should". We want to nerd out, sensibly, without causing problems. Read more about moderation: https://acarsdrama.com#moderation#avgeek

If you don't encounter a lot of LLM-spam and obvious trolls in the Fediverse right now, then your mods are doing a lot of good, unpaid work. 👍 #LLMMeAlone #moderation #MastoMod #FediMod