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Mastodon Migration May 14, 2023

Clarification

You do not have to worry about your mastodon.social (m.s) account being defederated.

There is a well meaning, but misleading post currently promoted that suggests you should move your m.s account because:

1) "Instance admins are considering defederating them"
2) "Their admin is making spam accounts easier to create."

Very few, if any, instances are considering blocking m.s, and the recent spam attacks are worthy of sober discussion, not hyperbole. [more]

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Ada May 14, 2023

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Very few, if any, instances are considering blocking m.sThat is just not true... For the first time, we are actually starting to see defederation and silencing/limiting of m.s. rather than just talk about it.

We finally pushed the limit button after the 3rd spam wave.

Being a mega instance is insurance against defederation, but it's not a guarantee

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Mackaj

@ada

My instance popped a limit on m.s over the weekend due to the spam as well. Must've been effective as I didn't get any personally. It's a useful tool to blunt the spread of spam across the Fediverse.

It's been removed now things are back to normal.

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