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

[ikuturso@mastodon.social]

@FediTips according to this article (the contact email there is for sujitech) the instance is run by the same people as at least Pawoo, mstdn.jp. The company still seems active...

https://masknetwork.medium.com/why-we-are-backing-mastodon-and-the-future-of-decentralized-social-dde0aab4ec46

[feditips@social.growyourown.services]

p.s. If you want to see an example of vile racism hosted on mastodon.cloud, here is one:

https://web.archive.org/web/20250814135220/https://mastodon.cloud/@CensorsAreCultists/114392734452324522

Note the date, the account is still active and is still posting this kind of racial hatred despite being reported.

EDIT: This post now seems to have been deleted seemingly by the account itself. The racist account itself just posted a follow-up trying to "explain" their statement with more extreme racism 🤮 https://mastodon.cloud/@CensorsAreCultists/115027872775410534

[feditips@social.growyourown.services]

@ikuturso

Either they aren't moderating, or they are allowing really awful stuff to be hosted.

Either way, it's not a good idea to be on such an instance.

[0tracas@veganism.social]

@FediTips ️ Mise en garde importante si vous êtes sur le serveur mastodon.cloud :

Mastodon.cloud ne semble plus être modéré. Son compte administrateur n'a pas posté depuis février 2023, son code de conduite est vide et d'ignobles racistes y postent. Les racistes ont été signalés à plusieurs reprises, mais leurs comptes sont toujours actifs.

À cause de cela, d'autres administrateurs de serveurs commencent à bloquer complètement mastodon.cloud.

Si vous êtes sur mastodon.cloud, vous devriez peut-être changer de serveur au plus vite : https://fedi.tips/transferring-your-mastodon-account-to-another-server

[thibaultmol@en.osm.town]

@FediTips kinda wish there was a "no longer federate newly created accounts from this instance" thing

[tanghus@freeradical.zone]

@FediTips @tek ️?

[feditips@social.growyourown.services]

@thibaultmol

Yeah. I'm posting because there are legitimate non-problematic accounts which joined mastodon.cloud while it was still moderated and don't realise what has happened since then. Hopefully they hear about this and move.

[feditips@social.growyourown.services]

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

[reflex@retrogaming.social]

@FediTips Looks like it's running an out of date version of Mastodon that stopped receiving updates in April too.

[feditips@social.growyourown.services]

@reflex

Yeah, it seems to be unmaintained, yet another reason to leave.

[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.