Good evening, Shop. Past my bedtime, but the Mastodon Mothership gang has made a discovery of a very poorly behaved server out there.
Contentnation dot net appears to be scraping(? not sure if that's the technically correct term for this) profiles, and their associated followers and posts, and replicating them on their own service giving the appearance that Fediverse accounts are presenting themselves via CN's own services.
We have bid that server blockity-BYEEEE! and IP blocked them for good measure as they're not a Mastodon host but some other thing using ActivityPub.
Unfortunately, I was able to find at least a handful of our users were being presented through this service, amongst hundreds of high-profile or high-engagement accounts. Because the content ported in was from the public timelines or public profiles (as far as we can tell), and it's now been replicated, we cannot "undo" what they already yoinked.
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