First of all: Yes, SafeLine sponsored me a Trial license, to be able to test the WAF and write this post. Malicious gossip might claim that I’m now doing paid posts, but it’s actually not about that, but rather about returning to the origins of my website. I have written about OpenSource a lot in the past, and I would like to return to this topic. And even though I am very pleased with the application, which I run as middleware, and have received a 7-day license I try to keep this article as neutral as possible.

The next big victim of hate and agitation is, how could it have been anything else, Bluesky. So I’m not surprised to hear that Jack Dorsey, the founder of Bluesky, has turned his back on his own project and returned to X. Double standards, fearmongering and more hate mongering Bluesky, at least within the German-speaking region, is mainly dominated by radicalized left-wingers who are furious about anything and everything that is not directly up their asses.

Double standards, fearmongering and more hate mongering While for them controllable bots, or bots that don’t use the full potential of the API from the instances, such as FediDB from Pixelfed developer Dansup seem to be fine for them, other databases that store a little more public data fetched from the API, such as ryona.agency’s FBA, are directly labeled as scrapers and illegal data processing. The fact that the use of APIs is absolutely not scraping demonstrates the lack of knowledge about how the internet works on the part of those who call themselves “guardians of the Fediverse”.

Dataprivacy & Law In contrast to what many instances, mainly Mastodon, advertise, data protection is not even present in Fediverse. The important thing is to know how the software you use is working, and that’s precisely what most wannabe administrators don’t know. Once the “cache” fills up on their Server because Mastodon has downloaded all the images and stored them on their own server so that Mastodon does not have to retrieve them from the other instance every time, these noobs start crying that their instance is consuming 400 GB to 1 TB space on their hard drive.

The “social” in Fediverse The fact that the Fediverse as a “social” medium is not much better, sometimes even worse, than Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), Threads, etc. should already have become clear in the first part of this series of contributions. Especially with German-language instances and their connections, such as through a Matrix channel, black/white thinking and extremist, populist framing by the political left becomes clearly visible. Here, for example, a group with the name Fedimins seems to have come together, in which insults are also used in the Matrix channel and framing to direct the group into the same mendacity machinery as is already known from hatemongers like Fediblock, which is known to be controlled by hate preachers and defamers like Welshpixie in a dedicated Discord channel for this purpose.

In General The way things are currently going on at the Fediverse, or Mastoverse, there will be no future for the ActivityPub protocol. Why? Quite simply, in bullet points: Misuse of mental health disorders for manipulation Centralized, public blocklists Are mainly used to spread lies Are used to exert force on instances Are used to exclude other opinions (censorship) Public denunciation of other opinions Forcing own opinion, mainly from the political left Arbitrary instance blocking due to personal differences of opinions of individual administrators Instance-wide blocking prevents up to several thousand people who have nothing to do with the administrator’s personal witch hunt or even want to have any interaction with the administrator’s victims.

Shutting down the RSS-Bridge To claim my server more and more for myself again, as already announced, I will shut down the RSS bridge on Nov. 15, 2023.

Most toxic Fediverse instances - Top 20 mastodon.art Abuse score: 2696 Software: Mastodon Known for: Ableism, Abuse of power, Abuse of reach, Alt-Fedi bullshit, Arrogance, Ass kissing with known bullies, Bigotry, Blacklist compiling, Blackmailing, Brigading, Bullying, CP, Cancel culture, Censorship advocate, Channers, Coercion, Criminal activity, Delusional, Despotism, Disinformation, Dogpiling, Double standards, Doxxing, Fearmongering, Framing, Gaslighting, Grooming, Harassment, Hate-Speech, Hateful Conduct, Hostile, Hosting hostile accounts, Hypocrisy, Identity theft, Invalid DMCA URL, Invalid Privacy Policy, Invalid TOS, Logophobia, Money begging, Narcissism, No Privacy, No data privacy, Poor moderation, Scam, Sectarianism, Shitposting, Slander, Spreading falsehood, Stalking, Undifferentiated hatred, Unmarkted NSFW, Victim blaming, Witch hunting, Zoophilia, Suicide-baiting, Running DDoS attacks

Aufgrund anhaltender Angriffe, nachweislich Mitgliedern des sogenannten “Fedi Council”, u.a. mastodon.art, Oliphant, mstdn.social, szmer.info, und der LGBT “Community” zuzuschreiben, auf meine Serverinfrastruktur wird die Firewall strikter eingestellt. IP-Adressen werden nun bei geringeren Anzeichen sowie bei versuchten Zugriffen auf Inhalte, die nicht für jene bestimmt sind, für 12 Stunden gesperrt und an mehrere, zentrale Blacklisten, inklusive Auszug aus den Protokolldateien meiner Server, gesendet. Eine Blacklist, die mitunter von richtigen Organisationen wie RedHat, SuSE und weiteren gepflegt wird und offizielle Mitglieder der DNSBL sind.

Ich hab ein wenig umstrukturiert und die Dienste so weit abgeschottet. Dank Authentik kann ich auch besser bestimmen, wer auf was zugriff hat. Frisch erstellte Konten haben allerdings vorerst nur Zugriff auf folgende Dienste: Weitere Änderungen: Durch GEO-Blocking ist die RSS-Bridge ist nur noch aus wenigen Ländern zu erreichen. Gitea wurde komplett heruntergefahren Zugriff auf GitLab muss beantragt werden und erscheint dann erst in der Übersicht Lemmy wurde komplett heruntergefahren Zugriff auf Takahe eingeschränkt Diverse Mastodon Server IP-Adressen wurden direkt in den Server-Firewalls für eingehenden, als auch ausgehenden Datenverkehr, auf allen Ports blockiert Mattermost wurde komplett heruntergefahren Das Kanban zu Mattermost wurde komplett heruntergefahren Übersicht zu den angebotenen Diensten entfernt Registrierung auf dem XMPP Server geschlossen und inaktive Konten gelöscht Die Sicherheit der Server wurde gestärkt Im Gegensatz zu so manch einem anderen, brauche ich dafür weder Fastly, noch Cloudflare Das Monitoring wurde verstärkt Gotify wurde in die Domain BKA.