@atomicpoet Is there a good guide somewhere for new instance administrators on how do defederate problem instances, and ideally, how to better stay on top of this stuff?

@atomicpoet Is there another instance monitor? instances.social is missing current data from lots of instances You might not have noticed if that instance had #IPv6. https://github.com/TheKinrar/instances/issues/153

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Blocked 👍

@atomicpoet honestly, when I joined I didn't know what to do, so I just chose mastodon.social. I hope it isn't a bad one...

@atomicpoet is it illegal to drone strike them too? asking for a friend.

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Just rummaging through this wasteland and surprise of surprises, it looks like Alex Jones has an official, active account here. If that's not block-worthy right there, I do not know what is.

I've neutered the link so you can't accidentally click on it and/or summon him, but his account is dev(dot)brighteon(dot)social/@AlexJones

@atomicpoet what buttons do I press to block?

@atomicpoet @supernovae

(On the off chance you missed the news

@atomicpoet @hacks4pancakes yo @thegibson you’re up

@atomicpoet Looks like my instance admins have already blocked them.

@atomicpoet how do you do block a channel

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Why can't we search up domains to block?

Like, what if there's this Nazi in the Fedi and I wanna lookup their name to block them?

@atomicpoet @chad in case you aren't already aware of this

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I had a look and just blocked the server even though I think it was already limited here.

@atomicpoet Anyone got links to interesting code that tries to figure out if an account is a bot, or spreads misinformation, etc etc? Something that can help us find people/instances on block lists?

@atomicpoet unfortunately we are all about to be massively inundated by AI bots. We could see 10X or 100X this activity in just a few months.

@atomicpoet @mike can happily say that server is blocked on mas.to. @trumpet’s in it!

@atomicpoet @Vivaldi

@atomicpoet @jcrabapple @kylewritescode @austin

Y'all might want to take a look at this.

@root one for the block list

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This looks like an instance to block, @sage

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"Natural News" has a Mastodon instance? Let them federate with the instances that are blocked by everyone in the civilized Fediverse.
Have you blocked, @supernovae ?

@atomicpoet They don't seem to have a visible local timeline, which is suspicious.

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@dennishorn @gavinkarlmeier The huge number of new mastodon accounts might not be a cause for celebration after all 😬

@atomicpoet @Gargron So, I'm not sure of the difference between Limited and Suspended but a bot factory like that seems better to sever all connection to? For .social and .online I mean.

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thanks for this - is there a list of domains that new admins may want to block (ideally with an explanation)?

this is my first blocked domain

@milan Hast Du das auf dem Radar? @atomicpoet

@atomicpoet I would guess that's not their active instance and they have just copied a snapshot of their account database across from their active instance in order to do some dev work.

@atomicpoet @mbootsman

@atomicpoet @stux @mattias

@atomicpoet @abfuning

Thanks for the heads up.

@atomicpoet We blocked them like decades ago

@atomicpoet @Sven are we aware?

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@C_Chell

@atomicpoet Fyi, @ordnung ^

@atomicpoet Fyi, @C_Chell ^
For your server block list.

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@foufoutos @baskin @specktator_

@atomicpoet @spore in case you haven’t seen this

@atomicpoet @medium @coachtony

@atomicpoet Huh, turns out I already suspended federation with brighteon.social months ago, but I've gone ahead and suspended dev.brighteon.social as well as all subdomains at *.brighteon.social now. Thanks for the heads up!

@atomicpoet *coughs* @chordtoll

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How?

@atomicpoet Bringing this to your attention @stux for your various servers!!!

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ICYMI @supernovae

@atomicpoet @trumpet

@atomicpoet I'm surprised it took them this long to join Mastodon. So much easier than pandering to a billionaire manchild

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if i might inquire, can you tell me what you consider misinformation, please?

i have zero interest in anything a bot says anyway, i'm just curious. feel free to ignore, i won't take it personally.