Admin 🤓 Todon.nl (mod)

🥳 Congratulations everyone on Todon.nl! Today marks the 9th birthday of this Mastodon server. 🥳

🅰️ℹ️ There is commotion in the fediverse about an AI tool that can summarize your last 24 hours timeline. This is a privacy+security issue, but we can't guarantee for 100% that your posts/toots are stolen by AI.

What we did was suspending the zeitgeist.blue domain, but we don't think this will help much or even works, because it's a client, not a activitypub server. We blocked the IP-address, but there is no guarantee the IP stays this way.

The reason that we can't do much about this, it that those AI summaries are requested by one of your followers. It goes like this:

your follower >> posts on timeline follower send to Zeitgeist >> Zeitgeist sends it to Claude (AI) >> Claude sends it back to Zeitgeist >> Zeitgeist sends it back to your follower

So your posts are already on the timeline of your follower server. Todon.* can't do a lot about that. What we can do is to block as much AI crawlers as possible (we just updated robots.txt), BUT that only helps for our servers. And if your follower is on another server, this will also not work for their servers, because the posts go through the Zeitgeist 'service'. Blocking the IP will than help, but probably temporary.

We also limited the alpaca.gold server and blocked their admin. This server is not used for scraping, but is a AI-bro server.

📰 Especially in time of war, it's important you give a source in your post. So people don't have to magically guess where your information is coming from. Please keep the fediverse as reliable as possible.

• Note: When in the future we receive enough proof that Mastodon.cloud is sufficiently moderated, we will unsuspend them (first back to limit).