Mastodawn

cstephens2 10h ago

⚠️ Do not move your account to mastodon.cloud. If you know someone already on mastodon.cloud you might want to suggest they move to a different server.

-Mastodon.cloud's admin hasn't posted since Feb 2023
-There doesn't seem to be any moderation, really awful bigotry is still there months after being reported
-The server software is very outdated and full of unpatched security holes
-Because of all the above, many other servers have defederated mastodon.cloud

#MastodonCloud #FediBlock

Fedi.Tips 13h ago

p.s. If you want an easy way to discover reliable good servers, there are human-curated server lists at https://fedi.garden and https://joinmastodon.org/servers

All the servers listed on these sites have to comply with certain standards of technical reliability and moderation.

p.p.s. If you want help with moving there's a guide at https://fedi.tips/transferring-your-mastodon-account-to-another-server

Fedi.Garden – An easy way to join Mastodon and the Fediverse

Highlighting nice servers on Mastodon and the Fediverse

Humphrey Archer 12h ago

ugh
I just moved there with my non-fiction accounts
This is so tiresome

Fedi.Tips 12h ago

Oh no, really sorry to hear 😞

Hopefully the human-curated server lists can help reduce this kind of situation happening to people.

Ari Sovijärvi 12h ago

@FediTips I'm genuinely surprised that it can still still survive in this zombie state. A lot of Wordpress and similar sites have pretty quickly attracted from the hosting or co-location company's interest after enough reports have been filed against it for objectionable concept or it just being a trojan payload sharing site.

Fedi.Tips 12h ago

I wonder if anyone has reported it to the providers higher up the chain? 🤔

There have been reports via Mastodon's own moderation tools but these have AFAIK all been ignored.

Ari Sovijärvi 8h ago

@FediTips I don't know, but generally when something web based gets pwned hard enough, sysadmins typically start to raise stink about it. If I spot port scanners or obvious stuff being run against the systems I maintain, I might fire an e-mail to their ISP's abuse address, depending on where they from. With China, Russia etc. I don't bother, US and Europe likely, the Nordics, very likely.

@apz @FediTips lmfao should take a look at catdon.life. It a couple years ago upgraded from v2.5.2 to what version it's currently on v2.7.0.. a release from Jan 2019. Hosts really don't seem to care seems like lol

C_Chell 12h ago

@FediTips
I check the version of the instance : 4.1.25, released on 2025-04-02 and is unmaintained since this time.

@FediTips the same admin was responsible for mstdn.jp and pawoo.net, both of them also abandoned and running with outdated and unsupported versions.

Hoshino Lina (星乃リナ) 🩵 3D Yuri Wedding 2026!!!14m ago

@cadusilva @FediTips TIL those are all the same admin... and also this:

https://blocktribune.com/former-employee-sues-blockchain-firm-ceo-for-sexual-assault-wrongful-termination/

stux⚡️12h ago

@FediTips Hm.. I believe they are part of some other instance, maybe pawoo?

I remember a company being behind .cloud and another big instance

stux⚡️12h ago

@FediTips Ah yes!

Sujitech, LLC.

stux⚡️12h ago

@FediTips So yeah, a lot

Mastodon Belgium Admin 10h ago

@stux @FediTips
This might explain why I have a user from Japan and why they didn't join on mstdn.jp

stux⚡️9h ago

@admin @FediTips On both those servers there is soo much CSAM content.. we suspended/silenced(media) them because it was too much

Mark Wyner Won’t Comply

Same. And I had no idea they were associated with pawoo. Thanks for mentioning this.

@admin @FediTips

Skwerlgyrl 10h ago

@FediTips Good to know. Thank you!

Sam Nabi 8h ago

@FediTips @mayintoronto
@crimini

Jigme Datse 7h ago

@FediTips This makes me want to look at my moderation logs... Because I suspect that's a common source...

🥑 Yours Truly! Unruly 🇨🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦🌻6h ago

Thanks! Will try and block it too.

@FediTips Heads-up to @RaulKrauthausen who is currently still on that server. Would be unfortunate to get disconnected from that voice with wide defederation.

gunstick 1h ago

@FediTips with all the security issues, maybe someone could hack into the server and tell all users that they should leave.