Mzakaria
nixCraft 🐧Mastodon is slowly gaining popularity, but it also attracts bad actors and scammers. Remember that no verification or blue tick mark is for sale on any instance. Similarly, be aware of popular accounts getting cloned in some other cases. As usual, all of these scams have one goal: to steal your information, money, or cryptocurrency, or get you signed up for OF, etc. Stay on guard and report such accounts or instances.
Kristof12@nixCraft lol
SirWumpus 👾🍁@nixCraft I had one this morning, the avatar photo being some buxom woman, with zero or few posts. Google image search of the avatar showed it had been abused across Pintrest etc. I don't like these and reported it. When in doubt let a moderator sort it out.
SarAnyone wanting to put me on OF is either very very stupid, or very very brave.
I'm not sure which is worse.
JoeB@trendytoots Since yesterday I stopped using the federated timeline.. I saw two NSFW that where like wtf my wife and child could have been there.. I just look at people I follow!
Madagascar_Sky@jb7925 @trendytoots
I think most mastodon interfaces have a 'don't show Content Warning posts' option. So they will not ever show NSFW stuff. If you find a post that does not have Content Warnings you can report them. I'm hoping the mods have tools to manage spammers.
cedricdes@nixCraft I wasn't aware of the popularity gain of Mastodon. It's good to hear
Ian@nixCraft Probably a good reason to (ahem) forbid emojis in screen names since they can by used to spoof checkmarks.
Quinn9282 🖥️🌙✌️@nixCraft Granted, there are certainly legitimate people out there that use OF for income, but if I were to get spam replies/PM's asking me to sign up to one randomly and has no relevance to the content I post, than I know it's more than likely a scam (or they could possibly just be stealing content from elsewhere on the Internet and reposting them to their private OF followers without the original creators knowing, who really knows).
beaiouns 
@nixCraft never trust anyone with a blue check mark in their name.
>or get you signed up for OF
You say that like it's a bad thing. It would be awesome to have my OF people also hanging out here just chilling, sharing or promoting.
Devil 
@nixCraft I've noticed a significant increase of activity of pro-Russian, pro-China and pro-NorthKorea content on the fediverse which likely means that their PR departments noticed Mastodon and Lemmy
Jay 🇺🇦
The Turtle@nixCraft i still feel left out I haven't been messaged by Amanda or whatever her name is.
Fuxle 
🔜EF30@nixCraft However you are able to place verified links, e.g to your website and your website contains a backlink with
<a href="..." rel="me">Mastodon</a> to your account. Also works with GitHub btw.@nixCraft I would like to see more organisations/companies setting up their own Fediverse (I use pleroma for my personal Fedi - as does Debian - server diversity is good). This deals with a lot of the issues of identity confusion, once people start to see more accounts like @[email protected] (does not exist, but hard to fake, and fewer @[email protected] (also does not exist).
https://wordpress.debian.social/jlines/2021/01/12/it-is-good-to-be-a-tree/
https://wordpress.debian.social/jlines/2021/01/12/it-is-good-to-be-a-tree/
jakob 🇦🇹 ✅It would be that easy..
Run a fediverse-instance as subdomain of your well-known domain... company, private page, organisation... and close registration.
You are verified by domain. Voilà!
pepperoni kenshin