First ban on our instance: Keeping the Fediverse clean 🛡️

I just issued the first local account ban today. A huge thank you to the users who reported the profile! Your vigilance is what makes this decentralized space work.

The account in question wasn’t sharing actual content, but rather a "word salad" — a suspicious mix of random keywords and gibberish, typical for spam bots or SEO-farming.

Note to fellow Fediverse admins: I’ve added a detailed reason for the suspension in the moderation notes. If this user attempts to migrate or interact with your instances, you should see the "spam/word salad" flag in your federation panels.

Let’s keep the noise out and the signal strong! 📡

#Fediverse #MastodonAdmin #SelfHosted #Privacy #CyberSecurity #FediAdmin #Moderation #SpamAlert #NewsgroupSite

A major new spam campaign has been launched by Linode servers using 3rd and 4th tier subdomains of throwaway domains, mostly .us and .cl all with
Return-Path: <[email protected]>

#EmailAdmin #SpamAlert

Le domaine "gup.pe" a changé de propriétaire et distribue désormais du spam.

Vous devriez supprimer tous les groupes de gup.pe et utiliser d'autres services. Créer un compte sur #Friendica , avec sa capacité native à créer et utiliser des groupes/forums, serait peut-être une bonne idée ? Sur Friendica, vous pouvez créer un compte utilisateur et un compte de groupe/forum, puis passer de l'un à l'autre pour gérer le compte de #groupe.
docs.friendi.ca/develop/user/f…

social.growyourown.services/@F…

#Spam #spamalert #Guppe #group #groups
RE: social.growyourown.services/us…

Keychron lies.

Despite their 'assurances' your data will be abused and leached, they lie, and do not honor any settings at purchase, no account was made, paypal online purchase used, via their site, and their #unsubscribe URL is a tracking fest, with yet more risk.

Despite ensuring the "send me news and offers" was clearly unchecked at time of purchase, I'm now being spammed.

Reconsider any purchase from Keychron, or use a disposable email address.

💩 #Keychron business practices are clearly #lies and they *will* ignore your preferences and spam you anyway.

Regardless of the products quality, they've lost any future purchases I might have made for additional key caps or switches for the #Keyboard, with this piss poor decision to spam me after saying no.

I will simply block all email from them now and not purchase their products ever again. (might even shit list their domain on any or all kit I manage)

#Spam #Garbage #spamalert #dishonest