⚠️ Important headsup if you are on the server mastodon.cloud:

[tek@freeradical.zone]

@tanghus @FediTips Got any links to the racist stuff? I just looked at the TL and it’s filled with random junk like an unmoderated ghost ship usually is, but I hadn’t seen the vile stuff yet.

(Not asking because I doubt it’s there, just researching before I suspend a server.)

[feditips@social.growyourown.services]

@tek @tanghus

Here you go:

https://mastodon.cloud/@CensorsAreCultists/with_replies

This account has been reported many many many times over a long period.

Also noteworthy that it is able to boost posts from openly racist pro-Nazi instances because mastodon.cloud doesn't block them.

Its latest post claims black people are a different species 🤮 The account couldn't be more racist.

They just deleted another post they made but fortunately I managed to archive it: https://web.archive.org/web/20250814135220/https://mastodon.cloud/@CensorsAreCultists/114392734452324522

[mkljczk@pl.fediverse.pl]

@FediTips it definitely is moderated, @niebezpiecznik_pl can say something about it lmao

[feditips@social.growyourown.services]

@mkljczk

If it's moderated, why is it allowing the worst kind of racial hatred even when it's been reported many times over a long period?

[calaad@mamot.fr]

@0tracas @FediTips
A noter que lorsqu'on migre son compte ainsi, on migre les comptes qu'on suit et ceux qui nous suivent, mais pas les posts eux-même.
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Please note that when you migrate your account in this way, you migrate the accounts you follow and those who follow you, but not the posts themselves.

[feditips@social.growyourown.services]

@calaad

Yup, I've tried to cover this in the guide.

[mthaastrup@helvede.net]

@FediTips

@queen til jeres orientering!

[quattrocchi@mastodon.cloud]

@FediTips Collective punishment is unethical. Rule violations are best handled individually, not through broad blocks by association. Mastodon.cloud, despite lighter moderation, has remained open and interoperable for years—unlike other instances that block hundreds of millions of accounts hosted on popular services and eventually shut down.

[toriver@mas.to]

@quattrocchi @FediTips It’s not «unethical», it is the best technical response to an unmanaged cesspool. Blocking individually is pointless against a server where nazis can just make a new account and keep posting.

[quattrocchi@mastodon.cloud]

@toriver @FediTips Most people on the service are regular social media users, but here this mob is demonizing the whole instance as a "cesspool" and executing a totalitarian cleansing of everyone on the service.

[toriver@mas.to]

@quattrocchi @FediTips No, they are still there. Freedom of speech is not an entitlement to an audience, other servers see the unmanaged server as a problem and defederates from it, reducing its reach. Their house, their rules.

[quattrocchi@mastodon.cloud]

@toriver @FediTips Musk and his allies used that argument to rationalize the abuse of his employees and users. I disagree that anyone has the right to abuse other humans even in their house. Social disenfranchisement—cutting people off from public services—is abuse. Most on this platform did nothing wrong. A few bad interactions can’t justify punishing everyone.

[konakona@social.linux.pizza]

@FediTips the best thing to do with those kind of account is to ignore them and not give them the attention. If you share this for everyone to see you are giving them the attention they want. But yeah unmoderated instance can be pretty bad.

[leftic@gs.leftic.club]

@FediTips
@designthinkingcomic @lealinux @mahtin

[toriver@mas.to]

@quattrocchi @FediTips A given Mastodon instance is a PRIVATE service, not a public one. Again, if they want to sit in their more and more isolated instance then that is fine, after all both Gab and Truth Social use Mastodon without federating with anyone. The rest of the Mastodon servers are not obliged to federate with them either. It’s not «abuse» in any form.

[designthinkingcomic@mastodon.cloud]

@leftic @FediTips @lealinux @mahtin Sigh. Okay, let's see quickly I mess this up.

[feditips@social.growyourown.services]

@quattrocchi

It's not collective punishment, don't be ridiculous. It's an individual's right and responsibility to choose an instance, and move instances if they don't like how it behaves.

You're infantilising Fedi members by claiming they have no agency or ability or alternatives.

Also, mastodon.cloud isn't even updating its own software any more, it's several updates behind the latest supported versions. This is not good for its members, it means security holes may not be fixed.

[feditips@social.growyourown.services]

@designthinkingcomic

If you want help with moving please feel free to ask! (I've tried to make the guide as easy as possible, and answer common questions, but guides aren't as useful as direct answers.)

[feditips@social.growyourown.services]

@quattrocchi @toriver

Can you please stop using such ludicrous hyperbolic terms for what is just a server block on a federated network where people can move to different servers?

"executing a totalitarian cleansing"? Can you hear yourself? Are you serious or are you a troll?

Real life actual totalitarianism rises when lies about vulnerable groups are allowed to spread widely. Vulnerable groups get attacked and murdered in real life because of such lies: https://social.chinwag.org/@FediThing/112581263140051643

[quattrocchi@mastodon.cloud]

@FediTips It has become routine for viral posts to rally a mob into blocking entire instances—thousands of accounts—over a few bad interactions. While this may feel empowering for in-groups or those with large followings, it fosters a toxic environment. In this case, a dependable, useful, and constructive instance is being demonized and ostracized.