Mark Shane HaydenDec 29, 2022

PSA to all admins: I highly recommend a #FediBlock of #mastinator (ie. the entire mastinator.com domain).

Mastinator is a service that allows a person to anonymously follow people on the fediverse. No big deal you think? Your public posts are probably already anonymously viewable from your public profile anyways and all it is doing is aggregating public info? That is what its creator claims---it is just a convenience service!

Well no, it is mode concerning than that. It does this aggregation by following any account a mastinator user types into its service then replicating *all* your non-DM posts into a sort of "proxy inbox" in the mastinator.com domain that is completely out of your control and viewable by everyone!

In other words, if you are followed by mastinator.com it effectively turns your follower-only posts into public posts and lets people you have blocked keep following you by following the mastinator replica of your posts!

Innocent intentions or not this violates user consent.

Show threadAnomnomnomalyDec 29, 2022

@msh

A heads up to @wild1145 for @mastodonapp.uk instance would you be kind enough to look into this please?

Thanks

'Edit' Have already been followed by them and have personally blocked the user and the domain for myself.

Show threadGrant Buote
@anomnomnomaly @msh @wild1145 question: as a user, how do I block a domain?
Dec 29, 2022 at 6:58pmWeb
Show threadAnomnomnomalyDec 29, 2022

@GrantBuote @msh @wild1145

For me, it was when the [email protected] account followed me and I simply clicked on the 3 dots and selected block domain and then block user.

So I guess you'd need to find the user from that domain

Show threadGrant BuoteDec 30, 2022
@anomnomnomaly @msh @wild1145 thanks!
Show threadNeil Gordon   🇳🇿Dec 29, 2022
@GrantBuote @anomnomnomaly @msh @wild1145 Grant: I was able to block the domain as a user by searching for anyone on that domain, and then using three dots on their profile to block the entire server.
Show threadGrant BuoteDec 30, 2022
@neil @anomnomnomaly @msh @wild1145 thanks!