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)
Even when Twitter’s T&S infrastructure was at its most functional – which I’d say was 2021-mid 2022 – I sometimes saw appeals on content decisions, suspensions, etc. take 2-3 months unless I escalated to personal contacts at the company.
I keep seeing folks expect #moderation and community management decisions on volunteer-run fedi instances to happen in hours – not even days – and jumping to defederation when they don’t get immediate responses. It’s going to burn out so many admins, and makes me sad and worried about the sustainability and scalability of our communities.
Thanks to the excellent FediBlockHole, and my Fediblock homies, I decided to stop providing a single opinionated (mine) blocklist and work with other sources to provide multiple blocklists from various trusted sources to provide a new #MastoAdmin ultimate choice and transparency in which lists they want to input.
This page has mostly been rewritten to present them for you: