Mastodawn

⚠️ 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-The server software is very outdated and full of unpatched security holes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

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Rycochet 2d ago

@FediTips Kind of wish there was a way to flag new users about problematic servers. I started out on .cloud and it took me about a year to realise it was a pariah state in the fediverse, and that was only because I had a hard time getting other servers to let me migrate from there after I realised it had a lot of dying stripmall feel to it with a lot of automated content but few actual users.

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Fedi.Tips

@Rycochet

Yeah, it can be tricky to know where to sign up 😦

For what it's worth, I'd recommend using a human-curated server list where someone has checked the servers before listing them. I run one at https://fedi.garden and there's also one run by the Mastodon developers at https://joinmastodon.org/servers

Just out of interest, do you remember how you found out about .cloud?

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