I am running across more and more trolls lately using that hack for Mastodon where they post from the same account on multiple instances (not sure how it works). The same account can post to a thread from like 5 different instances very rapidly. It is likely a bot (or a very dedicated basement dweller), they seem to be programmed to copy-paste from a long list offensive racist posts, and it is deliberately targeting underprivileged people.
It wouldn't surprise me if they were getting paid by Elon Musk himself to lower the quality of interactions on Mastodon and drive a wedge between people, because that is exactly what this kind of attack does.
#Mastodon software developers need to step up their game, provide #instance admins with better #tools to track the sources of these posts. This is a real problem, there are feature requests about this already.
Blacklisting is slow to respond to these kind of threats, but it untile we get better tools, it is currently our only means to fight back.
We may even need to discuss ditching the Mastodon reference implementation written in Ruby for an alternative server software, if these threats can't be addressed in a timely manner.
@ramin_hal9001 I totally agree. The current tools and development efforts do not address these issues properly. Mastodon devs are more concerned with growth. It would be interesting to study the possibilities of moving from a running Mastodon instance to other implementations.
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