⚠️ Important headsup if you are on the server mastodon.cloud:
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@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.
It's not a dependable instance. Its software isn't up to date, there may be bugs that put its users in danger.
The admin hasn't posted in 2.5 years, that is not a sign of dependability.
Quite often instances where the admin stops communicating for years may vanish without warning.
"Brigading isn't punishing a negligent admin "
It's not about punishing anyone, it's warning people that they are on an abandoned instance. Would you rather they weren't warned?
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No one is stopping anyone using mastodon.cloud.
All that is being suggested is people might want to move off it because it seems to be no longer maintained or moderated.
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Is there a way to search (easily
) my follows and followers for their respective instances?Not as far as I know, sorry.
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@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.
If you let people spread lies about vulnerable minorities, it leads to real world discrimination, violence and murder.
How does someone ignore it when people are physically attacking them in the street?
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p.p.s. A lot of legitimate non-problematic accounts joined mastodon.cloud when it was still moderated. I'm guessing most of the ones still on there are there because they don't realise what has happened.
If you know someone still on mastodon.cloud, you might want to politely let them know what the situation is and suggest they move. I'm sure most will be horrified about what's happening and keen to move to a different server. If they need help moving, the guide is at https://fedi.tips/transferring-your-mastodon-account-to-another-server
@FediTips thanks for this post and associated tips. Have thought about moving server before but this post pushed me to act. Thank you.
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@FediTips thanks for this post and associated tips. Have thought about moving server before but this post pushed me to act. Thank you.
Thanks for taking the time to write these kind words, it's really motivating to hear these posts are useful!
Good luck on the new server
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p.p.s. A lot of legitimate non-problematic accounts joined mastodon.cloud when it was still moderated. I'm guessing most of the ones still on there are there because they don't realise what has happened.
If you know someone still on mastodon.cloud, you might want to politely let them know what the situation is and suggest they move. I'm sure most will be horrified about what's happening and keen to move to a different server. If they need help moving, the guide is at https://fedi.tips/transferring-your-mastodon-account-to-another-server
p.p.p.s. Mastodon.cloud seems to be running a very out-of-date version of Mastodon's server software. This is a bad sign as it means there may be unpatched security holes etc.
This lack of technical updates is another reason to leave mastodon.cloud as soon as possible.
It's never clear how long unmaintained servers will continue. If it disappears without warning, it will be too late to move your account.
If you want help moving, feel free to ask! Also see the guide at https://fedi.tips/transferring-your-mastodon-account-to-another-server
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p.p.p.s. Mastodon.cloud seems to be running a very out-of-date version of Mastodon's server software. This is a bad sign as it means there may be unpatched security holes etc.
This lack of technical updates is another reason to leave mastodon.cloud as soon as possible.
It's never clear how long unmaintained servers will continue. If it disappears without warning, it will be too late to move your account.
If you want help moving, feel free to ask! Also see the guide at https://fedi.tips/transferring-your-mastodon-account-to-another-server
@FediTips Thing that gets me, is hosting's quite the little chunk of change, to be all "Ho-hum, was I running a server somewhere?"
So possibly - working as intended? *shrug*
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@FediTips Thing that gets me, is hosting's quite the little chunk of change, to be all "Ho-hum, was I running a server somewhere?"
So possibly - working as intended? *shrug*
Yeah, that leads into a weird tale about money:
https://social.chinwag.org/@FediThing/115032817032174204
Does make one wonder where the money is coming from and why they seemed to disappear after making a super-large donation.
And even if they couldn't be bothered to moderate, why would they stop updating the software? There are plenty of hosts who will do updates automatically for a small monthly fee.
None of it makes sense.
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p.p.p.s. Mastodon.cloud seems to be running a very out-of-date version of Mastodon's server software. This is a bad sign as it means there may be unpatched security holes etc.
This lack of technical updates is another reason to leave mastodon.cloud as soon as possible.
It's never clear how long unmaintained servers will continue. If it disappears without warning, it will be too late to move your account.
If you want help moving, feel free to ask! Also see the guide at https://fedi.tips/transferring-your-mastodon-account-to-another-server
@FediTips I’ve been thinking of moving. Can you direct me to the instructions?
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@FediTips I’ve been thinking of moving. Can you direct me to the instructions?
Yes! There are simple non-technical step-by-step instructions here:
️ https://fedi.tips/transferring-your-mastodon-account-to-another-serverIf you want any help with this please ask
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p.p.p.s. Mastodon.cloud seems to be running a very out-of-date version of Mastodon's server software. This is a bad sign as it means there may be unpatched security holes etc.
This lack of technical updates is another reason to leave mastodon.cloud as soon as possible.
It's never clear how long unmaintained servers will continue. If it disappears without warning, it will be too late to move your account.
If you want help moving, feel free to ask! Also see the guide at https://fedi.tips/transferring-your-mastodon-account-to-another-server
@FediTips just moved from there to another server, following your instructions (which I found very clear and easy to follow).
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@FediTips just moved from there to another server, following your instructions (which I found very clear and easy to follow).
That's really great to hear, and thanks very much for the feedback
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If you let people spread lies about vulnerable minorities, it leads to real world discrimination, violence and murder.
How does someone ignore it when people are physically attacking them in the street?
@FediTips my point was that if you are a popular account and share their post you are actually giving them a lot more exposure. Which will only make it worse. Its like free publicity. I don't think you had any bad intentions sharing it. I am just saying its probably not really the best thing to do but its good to point out unmoderated instances because those have bigger issues than racist trolls.
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@FediTips my point was that if you are a popular account and share their post you are actually giving them a lot more exposure. Which will only make it worse. Its like free publicity. I don't think you had any bad intentions sharing it. I am just saying its probably not really the best thing to do but its good to point out unmoderated instances because those have bigger issues than racist trolls.
If I don't give at least one example, some people will assume I'm exaggerating or overdoing it when saying it's racism. They'll say they've never seen anything like that and demand proof.
I tried to pick one example that was most clearly racist.
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p.p.s. A lot of legitimate non-problematic accounts joined mastodon.cloud when it was still moderated. I'm guessing most of the ones still on there are there because they don't realise what has happened.
If you know someone still on mastodon.cloud, you might want to politely let them know what the situation is and suggest they move. I'm sure most will be horrified about what's happening and keen to move to a different server. If they need help moving, the guide is at https://fedi.tips/transferring-your-mastodon-account-to-another-server
@FediTips not sure the best place to report this, it looks the moving from/to settings are now under Account. I used your guide yesterday to change instances, it was very helpful!
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@FediTips not sure the best place to report this, it looks the moving from/to settings are now under Account. I used your guide yesterday to change instances, it was very helpful!
Fine to report errors anywhere, thanks for taking the time!
Which step(s) of the guide are you referring to?
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Fine to report errors anywhere, thanks for taking the time!
Which step(s) of the guide are you referring to?
@FediTips steps 7 and 10. It looks like Account isn’t under Preferences any more, it’s now a top level item.
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@FediTips steps 7 and 10. It looks like Account isn’t under Preferences any more, it’s now a top level item.
How are you getting to "Account" without clicking "Preferences"? (Genuine question!)
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How are you getting to "Account" without clicking "Preferences"? (Genuine question!)
@FediTips oh, I see, my mistake. When I click Preferences on the main page, I see an item on the left labeled Preferences, and I was expecting Account to be under that. Truth is, time had passed since I’d navigated to the Preferences page, so I forgot that’s how I got there. Nothing to see here.
