#FediBlock [email protected]: redirecting conversations in weird political directions without consent OR CWs, and then complaining, shifting blame, and calling people fascists when politely asked to stop

#MastoAdmin #FediAdmin

RE: https://lgbtqia.space/@alice/116825829843438277

social.lol has blocked tags.pub effective immediately. Even on the open web, consent is critical. Especially if you're taking someone's content and displaying it elsewhere, and doubly so if you're impersonating someone in the process.

A person had their personal photos shared elsewhere by bots that bore their name, giving the appearance that they were sharing that content in those spaces intentionally (but they were not). And the man who runs the instance with those bots, despite his "Trust & Safety" badge on his profile, offered neither trust nor safety, instead choosing to mansplain the technical reasons for this disgusting intrusion and further belittling the victim in his responses.

So. Yeah. Apologies to anyone on social.lol using tags.pub. We'll immediately lift the block once they switch to a 100% opt-in model that fully respects people and their content on the Fediverse.

#fediblock

#fediblock coretalk.space, alt of neondystopia.world mod blockevading and harassing

coretalk.space/notes/anzxjjtts7rj015t
coretalk.space/notes/aj7c5cnujdte07q8

Heads up all, @[email protected]'s science/news posts (cross-posted to https://hermez.prose.sh) are LLM-generated and no longer fact-checked. Recommend blocking server-wide to prevent potential misinformation and because that shit just sucks.

I don't normally do user-specific posts but this is the admin of the server, and so reporting them to the server won't do anything.

(See thread: https://dmv.community/@jcrabapple/116828453352635113)

#FediBlock #AIslop

RE: https://lgbtqia.space/@alice/116824281370893420

He #fediblock-eado a tags.pub, suena a una buena idea pero al final es otro scraper mas que no respeta las reglas de consentimiento del fediverso, por como opera nos impondría además carga extra a nuestro pequeño servidor.
Finalmente lo que me hizo tomar la decisión extrema fue leer los comentarios de su creador en el hilo que cito.

This new "tags.pub" instance that just blasts out boosts of anything with a matching hashtag is ... annoying.

Pointless.

Practically abuse.

It just boosted a post of mine with *seven* different accounts. Didn't ask for permission to follow/do things with my content.

Its account overviews say "You can opt out!", which is absolutely *not* how bots should be interacting with people in the Fediverse. This should be opt-*in* only.

How is this okay? Frankly, I think it should be completely defederated, it's not operating in good faith.

#Fediblock #OptOut #consent

Today, an unknown bot swarm started using my name, boosting my posts, and inserting itself into communities I helped create. I treated it like any other potential attack and started defending myself and our communities as best I could. This has taken up more of my day than most malicious bot attacks, because it had the air of legitimacy—despite taking the actions of a threat.

When the owner, @evan ¹, came in with the same justifications as the porn-scrapers and LLM-owners I regularly fight against—repeatedly doubling-down in the face of backlash²—I felt more and more sure of my response.

I now feel justified in calling for a #FediBlock of tags.pub (and probably his other projects), at least until a better opt-in consent model is built into the project.

¹ I'm including his name as he's a public figure associated with Activity Pub, and our whole conversation today is already a public record, but please don't dogpile; just defed or block as you see fit and call it a night (or day—I'm not your mom).

² Receipts: https://lgbtqia.space/@alice/116824281370893420

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