Mastodawn

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I’m looking for a little help about dealing with the seemingly mass attack of Russian bots. What's the best way of handling this?

I report this Russian propaganda as 'Something Else' and bookmark a post, so that I can later see if the account is still running, then I block the account. I also leave the checkbox on, for the server itself to receive my report

Many accounts are not suspended

#Mastodon #Fediverse #Spam #Propaganda #ActivityPub #Russia #Putin #Ukraine #EU

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Grant

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I’ve found that if I go to the account’s server and look at its boosts/followers/following, I can find many more, quasi-identical accounts. So they boost/follow each other. For example, I’ve seen that the tsst.net server is essentially a russian bot server, with 88 accounts. If you look at the Profiles Directory and browse only that server, you sink into a toxic hole.