⚠️ Do not move your account to mastodon.cloud. If you know someone already on mastodon.cloud you might want to suggest they move to a different server.
-Mastodon.cloud's admin hasn't posted since Feb 2023 -There doesn't seem to be any moderation, really awful bigotry is still there months after being reported -The server software is very outdated and full of unpatched security holes -Because of all the above, many other servers have defederated mastodon.cloud
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.
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.
Kind of wish there was a way to flag new users about problematic servers. I started out on .cloud and it took me about a year to realise it was a pariah state in the fediverse, and that was only because I had a hard time getting other servers to let me migrate from there after I realised it had a lot of dying stripmall feel to it with a lot of automated content but few actual users.
For what it's worth, I'd recommend using a human-curated server list where someone has checked the servers before listing them. I run one at fedi.garden and there's also one run by the Mastodon developers at joinmastodon.org/servers
Just out of interest, do you remember how you found out about .cloud?
Movie Trailers, Previews, etc. I will also upload the occasional TV Preview. The videos are primarily collected from my DVD collection.Hope you enjoy.I do no...
It’s been a long day of debugging software. Going to be working on our documentation software this weekend so we can have official documentation for all of our services.
gunstick
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in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •p.s. If you want an easy way to discover reliable good servers, there are human-curated server lists at fedi.garden and 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 fedi.tips/transferring-your-ma…
Transferring your Mastodon account to another server | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
FediTips (Fedi.Tips - An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse)Humphrey Archer
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •I just moved there with my non-fiction accounts
This is so tiresome
Fedi.Tips
in reply to Humphrey Archer • • •@screwturn
Oh no, really sorry to hear 😞
Hopefully the human-curated server lists can help reduce this kind of situation happening to people.
Ari Sovijärvi
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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.
Ari Sovijärvi
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in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Hoshino Lina (星乃リナ) 🩵 3D Yuri Wedding 2026!!!
in reply to Cadu • • •@cadusilva TIL those are all the same admin... and also this:
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stux⚡️
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Hm.. I believe they are part of some other instance, maybe pawoo?
I remember a company being behind .cloud and another big instance
stux⚡️
in reply to stux⚡️ • • •Ah yes!
Sujitech, LLC.
Skwerlgyrl
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Jigme Datse
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •🥑 Yours Truly! Unruly 🇨🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦🌻
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Thanks! Will try and block it too.
schuh
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Toni
Unknown parent • • •Que hastag, que publicacion? No entiendo. El hilo esta cortado-
@nlupo
Fedi.Tips
in reply to Toni • • •@coloco
They had suggested adding the fediblock hashtag, so I did. Then they deleted their own post because it was no longer needed.
Rycochet
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Yeah, it can be tricky to know where to sign up 😦
For what it's worth, I'd recommend using a human-curated server list where someone has checked the servers before listing them. I run one at fedi.garden and there's also one run by the Mastodon developers at joinmastodon.org/servers
Just out of interest, do you remember how you found out about .cloud?
Fedi.Garden – An easy way to join Mastodon and the Fediverse
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