#SelfHosted, #MastoAdmin, and others, you can block all of the THEGX accounts popping up from multiple instances all at once by going to your Preferences, Moderation, choosing Accounts, ALL or Remote and search 'thegx', checking all and suspending if you admin #Mastodon. As new accounts appear hourly, it seems, you might need to do this often. That will prevent them from getting to your users and frustrating them.
Restarted the server because for some reason only saw my posts and nothing else on the home feed. No hint whatsover. Storage is fine, resources are fine. Strange. #MastoAdmin
Heads up for fellow server admins: look out for a user registering with username "thegx" -- has been registering accounts on lots of servers with exact same username and a URL in the display name, then following hundreds of people.
Basically, spamming in gross attempt to get web traffic.
Unfortunately #FediBlock is not a useful approach here, but adding that hashtag so more admins are aware.
@xenophora@jcrabapple@Tattie#MastoAdmin We try and read all the context (that is still available*) around the complaint, user histories, and any additional information before deciding. It’s not a point in time but a pattern of behavior that emerges.
*= On mastodon people can delete their offending posts and they are gone, and not all context is available. This is why people have been exploring options to fetch missing replies to threads, etc.
this enables full-text search for posts you haven't interacted with, as well as full-text search for accounts, and includes several advanced filtering operators and parser fixes.
FediFetcher is a simple Python script that can help you pull missing responses from other #Fediverse instances into your own #Mastodon instance. It can also backfill profiles of new followers and followings.
It can be run as cron job, container, or even a GitHub action, meaning you don't need any infrastructure at all.
This is kinda cursed and I feel kinda bad about this, but I just re-created Twitter UI to #Mastodon with #CSS only... wanted to see how quickly it's possible to do.
Now that I have everything in CSS vars (shame that Mastodon has them hardcoded at the moment), I can use this as base to create another theme for myself. #MastoAdmin#WebDev#Twitter
Edit: Fixed things to the screenshot as I'm kind of a perfectionist/OCD-person.
On the one hand you have someone who gets all kinds of personal data that they can (and do!) use and abuse in all possible ways, from bombarding you with advertisement to selling you off to the highest (and possibly most maliciously interested) bidder.
On the other hand you have people who at worst might be enjoying the ego and power trip of being the administrators of a large instance —or something. I seriously wonder where #mastoAdmin people get their motivation. (Maybe some will let me know)