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. (see “Abuse of power”)
    • Creative people, e.g., artists and authors, lose potential income and advertising due to a personal conflict from the administrator, which completely disqualifies the entire system of decentralization for artists
  • Abuse of power by larger instances (for example mastodon.art, mstdn.social, todon.eu, todon.nl, chaos.social, troet.cafe, writing.exchange, mas.to)
  • The predominantly politically left-wing user base is using censorship via negative speech, harassment, and mass reporting to silence other opinions that are not militantly left-wing. Regardless of whether their victim is politically neutral.

xim.ca

An excellent example is xim.ca. Their administrator Alex reacted to a “censure” on Fediseer from my instances on fediblock.ing as follows:    

A reaction on my part to this probably caused his limited world view to collapse, and he reacted by creating an e-mail in Outlook, sending an e-mail to me at support@bka.li and then deleting the e-mail address, including an IP-based block on the mail server, so that I had no choice but to reply publicly.  

According to the decision of the Federal Constitutional Court of 10/03/2016 (1 BvR 2844/13) or the High Court in Dresden of 10/12/2021 (4 W 876/21), I have a right to retaliate against personal attacks, which I used accordingly. Since the “censures” on Fediseer are public, there is also a public interest, which allows me to make the email from Alex from xim.ca as well as my response to it public.  

But it appears that this only made Alex feel even more pissed off, and he continued to manipulate via Fediseer with weaponizing his mental disorders:    

The fact that others, like me, for example, might not be mentally stable too doesn’t even cross his mind, and he continues his personal attack.
He even went so far as to have a Fediseer developer himself speak out against my instances:  

Since the developers and maintainers provide a public service on which they allow a publicly visible opinion, they are obliged to be neutral, which they clearly violate with their entry and clarify that they are corruptible and use their own database for a personal vendetta. Just like oliphant.social and mastodon.art do.  

In addition, Alex, one of the administrators, created a new GitHub account for the only purpose, to continue his hate-speech against me:

transfur.social

Another perfect example is transfur.social:  

Here they use a website archive to justify their accusations of archiving and, thus, according to them as amateur lawyers, their justification of the block due to a violation of the law. I don’t think I need to explain much more, why such behavior is more than hypocritical and only points out that they want to stir up hatred against instances they have never had anything to do with:  

For more reasons why the Fediverse is more discouraging than accessible to the broad masses, see my post about the Most toxic fediverse instances - Top 20 at the Fediverse.

With the new hate campaign by fediblock.ing, transfur.social has also made themselves audible again:

Let’s take a look at this new post from a harasser:

As someone who’s had to deal with Kromonos’ libel and harassment at my own instance, can wholeheartedly agree.

It is always forgotten here that there is always a reaction to an action. I never act if I have not been attacked first. Maybe they should think about how they treat others on the Fediverse before they cry about how they are treated. Before falsely accusing others of libel and harassment, it would be advisable to stop doing it yourself. Yet again, we have the downgrading of other block justifications by transfur.social to engage in framing.

Just take a look a the ’tags’ they’ve applied here: https://archive.is/2JOxo

Downgrading of other block justifications is obviously a sign that the justifications seem to have hit the nail on the head. Because here, too, archiving is often used as a means of discrediting archiving.

And the block reasonings they’ve put for us in the past are also straight up libel: https://archive.is/UPArg (screenshot so you don’t have to go grepping through the ugly pile of json)

Someone is talking about something they are doing themselves. So they are using screenshots from a JSON API to prove an alleged libel. A JSON API that is not readable for a normal user, but they themselves use databases that are designed to rate other instances poorly, where they themselves store their libel:

And the double standards keep coming back.

EDIT: It should also be noted the potential GDPR violation of a german based individual collecting data on other german instances with explicit notice that that data is not to be collected (screenshot 2, from the same archive link)

Obviously, we are dealing here with a Canadian (He published his location himself via a screenshot. The “previously connected” IP 174.117.111.51 is owned by Rogers Communications Canada Inc., while using a German service provider, Hetzner, for his host.) who supposedly knows the EU laws better than those of Canada, not. If it was really part of GDPR that not deleting posts via automated systems using the AP protocol is a violation of the GDPR, then he is very poorly informed. Public information that reaches the server anyway, e.g. by being submitted voluntarily to the inbox, does not need to be automatically deleted. The contact address as stated in the imprint is sufficient for this. On the other hand, the use of archiving systems such as archive.org or archive.is is an illegal creation of a copy of an author’s copyrighted material.

There is no legal precedent to actively collect data from places you have no involvement with for “legal action”.

That’s right, it’s not. But, as previously mentioned, there is no obligation to delete automatically. There is a contact address for this purpose on the imprint page.

You simply cannot just assume that every user on every instance matched under these rules is doing ANYTHING that would warrant retention for legal reasons.

Wait a minute. Are you implying that agitating against entire instances via Fediblock is something else? Aren’t your rules being imposed on others here too? This is another case of hypocrisy for all it’s worth.

Additionally, while they ‘archive for legal reasons’ they also seem to take issue with their own content being archived for legal reasons: https://archive.is/RyJDT

If you really took a close look at the law, you would quickly see that technical precautions have been taken here to prevent illegal copies being made of the texts. Bypassing these measures through archive services such as archive.org or archive.is is illegal according to the law. But surely a grandiose hobby lawyer like you knows that.
For his information: This measure was taken because the same server hosts an author’s website which is protected by license rights.

Yet another great example

fediblock.ing. An instance, solely for the purpose of public pillorying, to spread hatred and lies.   One of the best examples of how they spread bullshit:

Let’s take the post down:  

The following instances as listed are instances ran by a serial harasser with an active grudge against the mere idea of instance blocking.

Harassment is a criminal offense in Germany, according to § 107c StGB. However, accusing me of this offense without providing sufficient justification and evidence is also a criminal offense. Specifically, false accusations. The only aim here is to discredit me, or even my domain name.

The main domain social.mooneyed.de about page shows that the instances that it doesnt block just rejects deletes from most instance domains as well.

Wrong! The About page on social.mooneyed.de shows exactly which instances are blocked, including the reasons why. Again, they are simply lying to continue spreading smear stories.

A bit ago this instance was engaged in harassment towards a black user on the fediverse, trying to find a way to get them in legal trouble due to their dislike of them.

Again, a lie. But this time, I’m even being accused of racism here, without even considering that I’m criticizing Ro because of his actions, but definitely not because of his skin color. A typical tactic of narcissists using DARVO (deny, attack, and reverse victim and offender) tactics, which causes considerable damage to the credibility of the Fediverse through victim blaming and calculated lies.  

Let’s think about this for a moment. Aren’t you doing exactly what you’re trying to blame me for? Quelle surprise.

Alongside that, the instance maintainer has expressed public support for the fascist political party AfD.

And the next lie! Because in my post, I made fun of the left-wing extremists and anti-fascists’ snapping at the increasingly strong right-wing AfD party. Here, framing is used to disguise their insecurities and suck up to left-wing extremists.   As a non-German, living in Germany, I am not even allowed to vote at the federal level, but only at the local mayoral one. Again, it is assumed that simply because I posted voting results and made fun of left-wing extremists that I am automatically a right-wing extremist and/or a Nazi. An extreme black and white view that is very popular with the hate preachers at the Fediverse to stir up their “friends” to attack someone.

No, I’m not a right-winger. I’m just no longer a left-winger! There is a huge difference beeing right-winged an mid-winged, but it’s a fact that is not recognizable for intelligent handicapped like them!

The situation escalates however as the following instances have begun to abuse fediseer as a service, making up block reasons in hope to get them to stick and going as far to escalate harassment against instances that speak out against this person.

An interesting framing. Especially when you remember that xim.ca, for example, started abusing the Fediseer service to denounce me with randomly invented accusations. For more information, see above.

Listed within their blocks on fediseer is benign and silly reasoning.

The downgrading of block justifications by other administrators is excellent proof of how accurate these justifications appear to be. Because otherwise, they wouldn’t make such an effort to portray someone as a liar.

A recent blog post was made that seems to unintentionally demonstrate their serial harassing behavior as well.

When people who seem to use Google Translate to translate English texts don’t understand what the text on this blog means and run an instance that is purported to bring “safety” to the Fediverse, but oversteps the line and is more like a denunciation instance on par with the hatred and agitation of Twitter, you know the Fediverse is doomed.

got a frivolous legal threat via email for this post FYI.

The funny thing is that he received an uncensored copy of my contact with the Baden-Württemberg police, and yet he calls the email, which also went to the Abuse service of his domain provider and Cloudflare, a “frivolous threat”.  

You can download a censured version of this document from my file server.  

Once again, the writer of the post proves that he is not only not fluent in the language, and yet presumes to judge others, but also his ability to falsely represent anything he can see.

Kevin Karhan - infosec.space

Another example of a small, desperate kid who apparently writes from his parents’ basement instead of trying to make friends.
Not only has this Antifa groomer made enemies in his own bubble, see Schratze, but he also maintains his own list on Github in which he allegedly lists “bad instances” as a neutral and presents it as a “better Fediblock”.

It is also noticeable that he has no opinion of his own, but simply joins the hatred and propaganda of others to make a name for himself.
Not only the fact that he had previously labeled me a Neo-Nazi, but also his reaction to my take-down request, clearly shows that this little kid is far too caught up in his self-hatred:

This is clearly being framed incorrectly to complete the offender-victim reversal, remember DARVO.

Shortly after, he “reclassified” me in his “list” with new false accusations:

It is clear that he is lying here to mask his own aggressive actions.

Since he is banned from many other instances, such as mstdn.social, mastodon.social, social.tchncs.de, … because of hate speech, he has settled on infosec.space. But even there, he immediately starts making his lies heard:

Luckily for him, the administrator doesn’t seem to care for moderation very much, but immediately becomes aggressive if you publicly address the misbehavior of one of his users. Since the administrator of infosec.space, the same as infosec.exchange, permits hate speech on his platforms, you have to write to Hetzner’s Abuse Service to get any professional response at all. The hate speech will only be removed on his instances, when you go official ways via the Hosting-Provider Abuse Service. This is something that should always be done for every Fediverse instance, as it is very rare that an administrator or moderator of an instance has the required professionalism to act as a supervising instance.

In general, you should avoid this user, as he replies unsolicited with links to his blocklist.