⚠️ Do not move your account to mastodon.cloud.

[feditips@social.growyourown.services]

p.s. If you want an easy way to discover reliable good servers, there are human-curated server lists at https://fedi.garden and https://joinmastodon.org/servers

All the servers listed on these sites have to comply with certain standards of technical reliability and moderation.

p.p.s. If you want help with moving there's a guide at https://fedi.tips/transferring-your-mastodon-account-to-another-server

[apz@some.apz.fi]

@FediTips I'm genuinely surprised that it can still still survive in this zombie state. A lot of Wordpress and similar sites have pretty quickly attracted from the hosting or co-location company's interest after enough reports have been filed against it for objectionable concept or it just being a trojan payload sharing site.

[c_chell@equestria.social]

@FediTips
I check the version of the instance : 4.1.25, released on 2025-04-02 and is unmaintained since this time.

[feditips@social.growyourown.services]

@apz

I wonder if anyone has reported it to the providers higher up the chain?

There have been reports via Mastodon's own moderation tools but these have AFAIK all been ignored.

[cadusilva@bolha.one]

@FediTips the same admin was responsible for mstdn.jp and pawoo.net, both of them also abandoned and running with outdated and unsupported versions.

[screwturn@mastodon.social]

@FediTips

ugh
I just moved there with my non-fiction accounts
This is so tiresome

[stux@mstdn.social]

@FediTips Hm.. I believe they are part of some other instance, maybe pawoo?

I remember a company being behind .cloud and another big instance

[stux@mstdn.social]

@FediTips Ah yes!

Sujitech, LLC.

[feditips@social.growyourown.services]

@screwturn

Oh no, really sorry to hear

Hopefully the human-curated server lists can help reduce this kind of situation happening to people.

[stux@mstdn.social]

@FediTips So yeah, a lot

[skwerlgyrl@hear-me.social]

@FediTips Good to know. Thank you!

[admin@mastodon-belgium.be]

@stux @FediTips
This might explain why I have a user from Japan and why they didn't join on mstdn.jp

[stux@mstdn.social]

@admin @FediTips On both those servers there is soo much CSAM content.. we suspended/silenced(media) them because it was too much

[samnabi@spore.social]

@FediTips @mayintoronto
@crimini

[apz@some.apz.fi]

@FediTips I don't know, but generally when something web based gets pwned hard enough, sysadmins typically start to raise stink about it. If I spot port scanners or obvious stuff being run against the systems I maintain, I might fire an e-mail to their ISP's abuse address, depending on where they from. With China, Russia etc. I don't bother, US and Europe likely, the Nordics, very likely.

[jigmedatse@social.openpsychology.net]

@FediTips@social.growyourown.services This makes me want to look at my moderation logs... Because I suspect that's a common source...

[unruly@mastodon.social]

@FediTips

Thanks! Will try and block it too.

[sonjaschuh01@academiccloud.social]

@FediTips Heads-up to @RaulKrauthausen who is currently still on that server. Would be unfortunate to get disconnected from that voice with wide defederation.

[markwyner@mas.to]

@stux

Same. And I had no idea they were associated with pawoo. Thanks for mentioning this.

@admin @FediTips

[gunstick@mastodon.opencloud.lu]

@FediTips with all the security issues, maybe someone could hack into the server and tell all users that they should leave.