...aaand the spam is back. New images, new text, new ways to circumvent the filter! Don't celebrate too early, folx. It was just the silence before the storm. The botnet shutting down in order to reboot with the newest update!

This spam war will be won in one way and one way only: the collaborative effort of blocking spam altogether from the Fediverse. The spammers themselves won't gracefully shut down and give up.

But while they developed better spam, we developed better weapons against it, stay tuned.

@ErikUden maybe that's true on mastodon and similar activitypub implantations, but I have to disagree on the fediverse at large, as peertube exists, as peertube videos are content, even joinpeertube.org referring to it as that. also if i wanna get technical I can say that mastodon's api refers to post text as content but that may be pushing it content is just a word for stuff that is there, the concept of content isn't inherently corporate. And "content" doesn't mean sponsorships or soullessness, it can be both content and articles, greetings, friends etc at the same time.

@ErikUden Looking at the world right now, the state of disrespect and disregard science is held in, as a field, a reasonable person would be advocating for exactly what Aaron was doing to be not just legal but the norm.

The fact that science is seen as an impenetrable white tower, inaccessible and contradictory has directly contributed to over 33 million dead, many millions more disabled, and the current 2nd highest surge after Omicron - and some places have surpassed Omicron.

Aaron Swartz’s death should have been a wake up call to scientists and institutions to openly publish and make accessible their work. COVID should be the death knell for any gatekeeping of knowledge.

Imagine how different the past four years would have gone if actual science was the first dozens of returns in a search, and not behind paywalls. Instead, actual science is restricted and disinformation and garbage is what searches render.

The culture of white tower academia in restricting knowledge and information helped get us here. It needs to be burned to the ground.

Other victims have now spoken out about this and I urge you to read their story

Aprl as a Victim of Coordinated Harassment

Domi as a Victim of Coordinated Harassment and Withholding Medicine

Ari and the Warsaw Hackerspace

Wanda as a Coworker and Flatmate | Coordinated Harassment & Medical Misinformation

Yavien as a Flatmate

Miya Ironami as a Witness of Manipulative Abuse

An Incomplete Timeline of My Experience with Them

A Vague (and still incomplete) Timeline of My Experience After

Ever since I experienced this comparatively light harassment, I've been speaking to victims and heard the most unimaginable things. From withholding medicine in order to bully people or make them do false allegations to coordinating misinformation and collaborating with local (sports) clubs, hackerspaces, communities in order to ban people they dislike / came forward about their abuse, from all of these spaces.

That's quite ironic considering they were banished for this behavior from hackerspaces and now project this treatment onto others.

The people this was and still is about are:

- Lily | https://girldick.gay/@lily
- Amie | https://social.treehouse.systems/@amie

Continuing with the normal post this was originally about...

I was called on my personal phone number this evening (22:50) by a group of 10 people from the Fediverse ( https://girldick.gay/@lily ) threatening to report to Vodafone that we are disobeying their terms of service (side-services of mastodon.de are hosted behind a 1Gbit/s private connection instead of a business contract). While their obviously ill-intended conversation was going on, they were also live posting about it on their accounts happily admitting to what they are doing. You can see these comments as screenshots attached to this post.

You can read a memory log of our conversation here and here.

The motivation behind this was simply to annoy me. I know the people, we had a slight disagreement on the Fediverse recently. Regardless of the contract, we have planned to move mastodon.de completely to the cloud soon.

Honest to god, mastodon.de is a donation-funded project. Me and a couple of friends do this honorarily and we do our best to be as transparent about our expenditures as possible. I do all the finances, all public texts, all management, calls, etc. I do this next to studying Computer Science in university, next to my honorary political / environmental activist work, next to having friends or sleeping which often comes too short.

I'd love to have the life of people that can take the time out of their day to call someone at 11 pm simply to annoy them due to some internet argument that started and ended over a week ago. Truly, if I'd have that kind of time I'd be happier in life. Annoy billionaires and politicians, but not some guy who has spent all of his time, effort, and money into something that is for the common good.