Mastodawn

warning about this account’s purpose:

it contains a mixture of shitposts (often with emoji), cute/feral posts, and #fediadmin stuff for cuties.zip. which is which may be hard to tell

(however, if you see #fediadmin, you can assume this is an official admin post, even if @lare hasn’t read over it beforehand, and same thing goes for them)

Speed demon 🇪🇺 🇳🇴🇺🇦🇵🇸9h ago

Anybody know anything about vebinet<dot>com? stella_reed from there seems to be a bot-like creature. Joined mar. 22. Earliest posts read like AI free verse. Goes on with demoralising, (partly unsourced) media-quotes .

#FediMod #FediAdmin

Grow Your Own Services 🌱10h ago

Fediverse admins,

You can get a headstart on moderating your server by using ready-made server blocklists. There are many different lists to choose from, pick the one that suits your server's needs the best.

There's a guide for admins about using ready-made server blocklists on Mastodon here:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/importing-ready-made-server-blocklists-on-mastodon

There's a good roundup of many different blocklists by @oli at:

➡️ https://writer.oliphant.social/oliphant/the-oliphant-social-blocklist

#FediAdmin #MastoAdmin #Moderation

Importing ready-made server blocklists on your own Mastodon server | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse

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Colto Fox 1d ago

9 more Meta Platforms /16 subnets blocked for scraping my Fedi sites.

Updated the #ThreatFeed and applied to my networking and web systems.

#FediAdmin

Ruby Tails > FWA 2d ago

I know what day it is when I write this, but I say this with sincerity and kindness.

Thank you to all the instance admins out there doing the hard work to keep the peace and doing the necessary tasks to keep the lights on.

Without those efforts, my experience in the fediverse would be downright awful, with horrible people antagonizing folks like me relentlessly. Again, thank you for what you all do.

N.B. Current practice for this server's moderation is to, upon discovery, consider use of large language models (LLMs) as presumptive network abuse, absent other mitigating evidence. We encourage everyone to report such usage accordingly and encourage other server operators to take a similar view. (2/2)

#MastoAdmin #FediAdmin #LLM #AI

FLOSS.social

4d ago

👀 FYI: Effective this month, our IP blocks for Anthropic & OpenAI network spaces have been refreshed and updated to minimize those organisations' abilities to interact with content posted here. Please continue to report any cases of susptected network abuse for review and action. (1/2)

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Furbland's Very Cool Mastodon™4d ago

CC: #MastoAdmin #FediAdmin

...honestly i feel like this would be easy to do with even just a *skin* on top of mastodon

The Fedilore Otter 🦦5d ago

The AI timeline scraper did the bare minimum, so now there's an opt-out.

Not good (it should obviously be opt-in), but at least there's now simple steps that individuals and admins can take.

Individuals: Turn of search engine indexing in settings.

Admins: Block the user agent and advise your users to make sure they have search engine indexing disabled.

My understanding is that blocking the user agent is a positive step, but not sufficient.

https://alpaca.gold/@seldo/116313396870467518

#FediAdmin #FediBlock

Laurie Voss (@[email protected])

Zeitgeist now: * respects the `noindex` preference if set on your account * respects #noindex or #nobots if those are in your bio * sends a unique user-agent ("Zeitgeist/1.0") if you want to block the client entirely.

Alpaca.Gold

ij (eichey)6d ago

I'm having a hard time trying to figure out why follow requests from e.g loops.video to my instance are replied with 401s from mastodon-web.
Secure Mode is off...
mastodon-web logs in DEBUG show various "Signature verification failed: Verification failed for..."
I'd love to hear your ideas on how to investigate further.

This seems to be only a problem with non Mastodon Instances...

thank you in advance 🥵
#fediadmin