⚠️ Important headsup if you are on the server mastodon.cloud:
Mastodon.cloud no longer seems to be moderated. Its admin account hasn't posted since Feb 2023, its code of conduct is blank and there are vile racists posting from there. The racists have been reported many times but their accounts are still active.
Because of this, other server admins are starting to block mastodon.cloud completely.
If you're on mastodon.cloud you might want to move to another server ASAP: fedi.tips/transferring-your-ma…
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Svenja
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Stephanie Appleby
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Esther Payne
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •hey @OpenForumEurope you may want to move off Mastodon.cloud
It's not going to be a good look remaining on an unmoderated server.
ikuturso
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •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...
masknetwork.medium.com/why-we-…
Why we are backing Mastodon and the future of Decentralized Social
Mask Network (Medium)Fedi.Tips
in reply to ikuturso • • •@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.
Fedi.Tips
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Sensitive content
p.s. If you want to see an example of vile racism hosted on mastodon.cloud, here is one:
web.archive.org/web/2025081413…
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 🤮 mastodon.cloud/@CensorsAreCult…
Censors are Cultists (@CensorsAreCultists@mastodon.cloud)
mastodon.cloudCensors are Cultists
2025-04-24 11:36:45
Out of Print Archive (meppi64)
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Sensitive content
Interesting profile name, especially when I go to his followers list to not only block him, but also everyone who follows him, only to see that he made that listing invisible.
These dumb fucks, I swear. 😂
Fedi.Tips
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •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 fedi.tips/transferring-your-ma…
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Author-ized L.J.
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •psuPete
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Is it possible to search?
newsie.social/relationships
Full Mastodon addresses aren't completely viewable
Fedi.Tips
in reply to psuPete • • •@psuPete
As far as I know you can't search your follows/followers list, sorry 😔
Daniel Bohrer
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •LAUREN
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Fedi.Tips
in reply to LAUREN • • •@noondlyt
Not as far as I know, sorry.
Kev
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Fedi.Tips
in reply to Kev • • •@edgeofstretch
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 🙂
Fedi.Tips
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •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 fedi.tips/transferring-your-ma…
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fedi.tipsWill Phoenix
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Ken Butler
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Fedi.Tips
in reply to Ken Butler • • •@nxskok
That's really great to hear, and thanks very much for the feedback 🙏
TrueNorthSpice 🇨🇦
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •el Celio 🇪🇺 🇺🇦
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •El Duvelle
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Sorry if this has already been asked
Fedi.Tips
in reply to El Duvelle • • •@elduvelle
- If the server stays online, you can leave your old posts there and they will redirect people to your new account. So, they don't disappear as long as the old server keeps running. More info in transfer guide at fedi.tips/transferring-your-ma…
- You can download an archive of your posts and either keep it for your private records or upload these to a website (there are some services that let you do this for public posts). More about archives at fedi.tips/how-to-download-your…
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fedi.tipsEl Duvelle
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •I thought it was possible to somehow upload the downloaded posts to the new server.. Maybe @jonny would know if that's a thing?
jonny (good kind)
in reply to El Duvelle • • •@elduvelle
It's not a thing in base masto or glitch, as far as I'm aware, but not for any good reason - one could upload the archive and backdate all the posts even if they wouldn't be treated as the same as the originals by other instances/wouldn't have replies/interactions
Fedi.Tips
in reply to jonny (good kind) • • •This is possible and it has been done by Fedi platforms such as Firefish which accepted Mastodon archive uploads, but AFAIK they had problems with instance resources?
(For what it's worth, the uploads created new posts with no connection to the old threads but the content was the same.)
D. Olifant
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •This is a solved problem with GoToSocial.
First, they allowed backdating statuses.
Which allowed importing old statuses.
One of the devs created a tool, Slurp, for this purpose. It uses your existing Mastodon archive.
At this time, GoToSocial is the only platform I'm aware of that can handle not just account migration, but post migration as well.
This page talks about migrating to GoToSocial and using Slurp to migrate posts.
[feature] Implement backfilling statuses thru scheduled_at by VyrCossont · Pull Request #3685 · superseriousbusiness/gotosocial
GitHubFedi.Tips
in reply to D. Olifant • • •Oooh interesting, thanks for that! 👍
How does it handle the resource issue? Is this part of GTS's design for smaller instances, or can it handle large amounts of members migrating posts?
(EDIT: From that link it sounds like it's currently for small/single user instances?)
D. Olifant
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Yeah, it doesn't have to worry about the problems of running thousands on the same instance because it's not really designed for that. Although, if there was a large instance like that, they could just prevent it entirely by turning off backdated post imports at the server level in the config yaml.
It's not so much that it can't handle large volume or large amounts of members migrating posts.... it probably can?
It's just that no one has ever tested it. I'm not aware of anything I'd consider a "large" GTS instance, for one. I'm not aware of anyone with, say, 20k followers migrating to a GTS instance, or importing a massive archive to it.
Fedi.Tips
in reply to D. Olifant • • •@oli
On a slight tangent, I've been trying to find some public GTS instances to list on @FediGarden but there don't seem to be many?
I'm wondering if this is a result of a deliberate design to keep GTS for very small instances? Or maybe the larger GTS instances will appear in time?
D. Olifant
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Things like Fediverse Observer and FediDB started dropping many GoToSocial instances, after GTS started messing with scrapers ignoring the robots.txt by permitting admins to create ridiculous stats. This messed with the overall stats of the fediverse, so essentially a lot of GTS instances got wholly blacklisted from public directories, regardless of whether they enabled the 'spoof' setting or not.
Which....I guess stopped those places from scraping GTS server endpoints.
Some people are really mad at the authors over it, but all it's really done is take GTS off the official statistics board entirely.
Fedi.Tips
in reply to D. Olifant • • •@oli @FediGarden
Ah, yeah, I'm not doing any kind of FediDB-style automated list. Fedi.Garden is just a small manually curated list of good instances that people can join. I don't have any stats, it's just public instances where I've contacted the admin and discussed their safeguards for reliability and moderation, then got their consent to be listed.
GTS doesn't seem to have any public instances at all though?
I'm partly worried about what happens if Mastodon software goes south. Hard fork?
moanos
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Fedi.Tips
in reply to moanos • • •@moanos @oli
Yeah, that's what I'd call public! In fact it's arguably better if it's approval-based because it shows proper moderation is going on.
D. Olifant
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •I mean, here's goblin.technology, run by Tobi who basically started GoToSocial.
goblin.technology/
It allows signups. So I'm not sure if that's public or not.
ALL GoToSocial instances require manual review for signups however.
Hold Me Closer Tiny Goblin - GoToSocial
goblin.technologyFedi.Tips
in reply to D. Olifant • • •@oli
Ooh thank you, I will contact Tobi!
jonny (good kind)
in reply to D. Olifant • • •@elduvelle
Ya totally. Importing the posts shouldn't be too hard, literally just copy pasting db rows. No reason glitch/masto can't do that. Getting other instances to recognize the move and preserving replies/etc. Would require a bit of work but I don't see a fundamental reason it can't be done. This is one of the essential fixes that needs to be made in base masto to make all other fedi apps easier for instances to try: if we could easily migrate all our accounts in a history-preserving way, that makes it actually possible for us to consider switching to e.g. gotosocial, but without that we can't.
D. Olifant
in reply to jonny (good kind) • • •D. Olifant
in reply to D. Olifant • • •I should actually go one further here.... post migration is handled with Slurp via the Mastodon archive.
And the thing about the Mastodon archive is that you don't have any posts in it you didn't write. Sure, you have replies to posts in a thread you created, maybe, or orphaned replies to other people's threads, but it's not like you can pull an export that includes other people's posts, too.
So keeping actual post references intact rather than merely copying over the content of original posts so that they aren't lost, and replacing all existing references to that post to a copy of it on other new instances....that's a big difference.
If we just go with the Mastodon archive as our source of preserving posts, we don't have the source data to recreate the thread in the first place, just the original posts from the author.
With such fragmented data, you can see why we often throw orphaned mentions away (as I do with Posty) or Slurp refuses to include random mentions...
On top of which, including random mentions would trigger a whole wave of noti
... show moreI should actually go one further here.... post migration is handled with Slurp via the Mastodon archive.
And the thing about the Mastodon archive is that you don't have any posts in it you didn't write. Sure, you have replies to posts in a thread you created, maybe, or orphaned replies to other people's threads, but it's not like you can pull an export that includes other people's posts, too.
So keeping actual post references intact rather than merely copying over the content of original posts so that they aren't lost, and replacing all existing references to that post to a copy of it on other new instances....that's a big difference.
If we just go with the Mastodon archive as our source of preserving posts, we don't have the source data to recreate the thread in the first place, just the original posts from the author.
With such fragmented data, you can see why we often throw orphaned mentions away (as I do with Posty) or Slurp refuses to include random mentions...
On top of which, including random mentions would trigger a whole wave of notifications for post-dated posts, so Slurp just refuses to import those.
jer
in reply to D. Olifant • • •It wasn't obvious (to me) from the documentation, but slurp can also dump posts (and other stuff) from one GoToSocial server to a file which you can use to push into a new GoToSocial instance as if it were a Mastodon archive. That was extremely useful when I migrated to my self-hosted GTS.
It appears to work on anything with a Mastodon API, because I also used it to pull down posts/followers from two Iceshrimp instances as well. I haven't tried it on a Mastodon instance, but I believe this means you don't even need a manual export from Mastodon.
@jonny @FediTips @elduvelle
Fedi.Tips
in reply to jer • • •@nyquildotorg @oli @jonny @elduvelle
"I believe this means you don't even need a manual export from Mastodon."
Hmm... that sounds like it could be misused? 🤔
There was already that instance a few weeks ago that was found to be mass-cloning genuine accounts 😬
jonny (good kind)
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •A nonunique threat if there ever was one, you can do the same with curl
Ember
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Fedi.Tips
in reply to Ember • • •Fedi.Tips
in reply to El Duvelle • • •@elduvelle
p.s. Just to add to why there is this situation, servers are run by volunteers who have to pay for all the server's running costs, they don't run ads or sell any data or have any investors.
If accounts move to a server and suddenly upload thousands of posts with perhaps hundreds of images etc, that can be quite a drain on the server's resources.
There was a Fedi platform which experimented with uploading archives, but it slowed down badly when big archives were uploaded.
El Duvelle
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •David
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •@elduvelle
I understand that many servers are in closets and run on residential energy rates, but identity on social media networks includes posts and images. We are what we wrote and we are what we will write.
It's good to design for the cheapest hardware and internet speeds but to be perfectly honest, some servers can afford it but choose not to because the low hanging fruit is to offer only the bare minimum as long as they can
Fedi.Tips
in reply to David • • •@drdrowland @elduvelle
The posts and images don't disappear, they remain on the server where they were posted and their username directs people to your new account.
If someone suddenly uploads thousands posts and a similar amount of images, that will cause a strain. If many people do that, it will be even more strain.
The Fedi platform Firefish did actually try this, and it did cause problems. It's mainly to do with the amount of computing resources required to deal with many tasks at once.
Fedi.Tips
in reply to David • • •p.s. Anything that you host online on other services will disappear at some point (theguardian.com/technology/201…).
If you need to make sure all your posts stay online, you can set up your own server. It doesn't require tech skills and it doesn't require much money either.
Managed hosting costs $5 per month for a single person with the hosting company doing all the techy stuff for you. I encourage people to do this with help and links to providers at growyourown.services/grow-your…
Myspace loses all content uploaded before 2016
Alex Hern (The Guardian)David
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •@elduvelle
I love the tips, but making the case that it's cheap enough for an individual to do it only strengthens my case that institutions can and should offer this service for free
Fedi.Tips
in reply to David • • •@drdrowland @elduvelle
It would be great if they did that, yes. It would be a bit like in the early days of the web when people were often given free web pages by ISPs, universities, community groups etc 🙂
The price per instance also becomes a lot cheaper if a provider hosts lots of instances.
I guess question is which institutions would offer this?
el Celio 🇪🇺 🇺🇦
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •@elduvelle
i think instances should be able to refuse migration, if it is too big to handle.
I still think that true federation requires the possibility to move everything, posts included, in 3 clicks.
Chuck o Rama
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Fedi.Tips
in reply to Chuck o Rama • • •@neontapir
Fine to report errors anywhere, thanks for taking the time! 👍
Which step(s) of the guide are you referring to?
Chuck o Rama
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Fedi.Tips
in reply to Chuck o Rama • • •Chuck o Rama
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Fedi.Tips
in reply to Chuck o Rama • • •@neontapir
Aaah, yeah, I see what you mean!
It is sort of confusing that there's a main "Preferences" option in the general interface but then also a "preferences" section on the Preferences page.
Maybe they should rename it "Settings" for one and "Preferences" for the other?
Thanks for this, it is really useful to hear how people see the interface from their point of view.
Chuck o Rama
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Purple
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in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •🐈 Kimapr La Gata
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Sensitive content
i tried to open the follow-up post, but was greeted with this:
I’m pretty sure i’ve seen this exact thing before, and it’s like, lol. also ironic how someone named “Censors are Cultists” is hosted on an instance that engages in geoblocking, i.e. censorship
Fedi.Tips
in reply to 🐈 Kimapr La Gata • • •Sensitive content
@kimapr
You can see it archived at web.archive.org/web/2025081416…
Censors are Cultists (@CensorsAreCultists@mastodon.cloud)
mastodon.cloudKonakona
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Unus Nemo likes this.
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in reply to Konakona • •@Konakona @Fedi.Tips
I agree with the idea of not feeding trolls though, as an Instance admin if someone says an Instance needs to be blocked then I want evidence as to why. Blocking another Instance is not something I do lightly. So yes, feeding trolls is not a productive thing to do. Though if you call out an Instance as being unmoderated you kind of have to provide evidence if you expect to be taken seriously.
Fedi.Tips
in reply to Konakona • • •@konakona
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?
Konakona
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Fedi.Tips
in reply to Konakona • • •@konakona
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.
Konakona
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Erik
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Sensitive content
woah
The censorsarecultists guy has at least one unused alt at submarine.online
Not even going to touch that, instablock and might warrant #fediblock
marzuq märzenbecher
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •👁️ @RaulKrauthausen @exnocte @MissPla @durst
#MastodonCloud
0tracas💛
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •⚠️ 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 : fedi.tips/transferring-your-ma…
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fedi.tipsCalaad
in reply to 0tracas💛 • • •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.
Fedi.Tips
in reply to Calaad • • •@calaad
Yup, I've tried to cover this in the guide.
Marcus
in reply to Calaad • • •Fedi.Tips
in reply to Marcus • • •@marcusxms @calaad
That might or might not work depending on whether the server shutting down sends out a deletion command. Many of them do this to tidy away posts from accounts that no longer exist.
You can download a personal archive of your posts but there's currently no way to upload this onto Mastodon:
➡️ fedi.tips/how-to-download-your…
There may be other platforms that allow archive uploads in the future, Firefish experimented with this at one point.
Marcus
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Alright, maybe instead one could quote share the posts on Friendica and then refer to that account on Mastodon, or possibly boost those quote shared posts. That is until Mastodon itself gains the quote share functionality. I would assume those would not be deleted by that operation?
Or perhaps in that case one may as well script reposting them all, losing the original timestamps but retaining the content, or reposting them inside a quote with a printed timestamp of the original post.
Fedi.Tips
in reply to Marcus • • •@marcusxms @calaad
There are sites that let you display your Masto archive online as a website, you could refer to these on your new account?
Alternatively, a script could possibly repost the archive to your new account? But it would probably be rate-limited by the new server as someone posting potentially thousands of posts might overwhelm the server's resources.
(This was one of the problems on Firefish's experiment, it overwhelmed the server when the archive being uploaded was large.)
Thibaultmol 🌈
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Fedi.Tips
in reply to Thibaultmol 🌈 • • •@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.
Alex Chapman
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •AI6YR Ben
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in reply to AI6YR Ben • • •Will Phoenix
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in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •David Fleetwood - RG Admin
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Fedi.Tips
in reply to David Fleetwood - RG Admin • • •@reflex
Yeah, it seems to be unmaintained, yet another reason to leave.
GunChleoc
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •GunChleoc (@gunchleoc@mastodon.scot)
mastodon.scot☠ Captain Arcee ☠
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Jon (has moved)
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Fedi.Tips
Unknown parent • • •Sensitive content
Here you go:
mastodon.cloud/@CensorsAreCult…
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: web.archive.org/web/2025081413…
Censors are Cultists (@CensorsAreCultists@mastodon.cloud)
mastodon.cloudTekniquelly correct
Unknown parent • • •@tanghus 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.)
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Tekniquelly correct
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Sensitive content
@tanghus Sigh. This is why we can’t have anything nice.
Thanks for that. We’re suspending.
Shadow Heart
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Sensitive content
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in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •We have suspended them already
Rina
Admin @ tootworld.social
Derek Martin
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Jake
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Admiral Memo
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Be More Kind
Mastodon hosted on kind.socialChristiane
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •@muddie has moved
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in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •the bear's den Administration
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Joseph Quattrocchi
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Fedi.Tips
in reply to Joseph Quattrocchi • • •It's not collective punishment, don't be ridiculous. It's an individual's right and responsibility to choose an instance, and move instances if they don't like how it behaves.
You're infantilising Fedi members by claiming they have no agency or ability or alternatives.
Also, mastodon.cloud isn't even updating its own software any more, it's several updates behind the latest supported versions. This is not good for its members, it means security holes may not be fixed.
Joseph Quattrocchi
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Unus Nemo
in reply to Joseph Quattrocchi • •@Joseph Quattrocchi @Fedi.Tips
You really believe that an Instance that is several versions behind on support updates is dependable? You believe that people attempting to keep toxic content from being propagated are fostering a toxic environment? I am not understanding your motivations or reasoning here.
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Joseph Quattrocchi
in reply to Unus Nemo • • •Fedi.Tips
in reply to Joseph Quattrocchi • • •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?
Joseph Quattrocchi
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Fedi.Tips
in reply to Joseph Quattrocchi • • •The stuff being posted on mastodon.cloud is vile, utterly disgusting sewage. It is saying certain racial groups are subhuman, it is saying that skin colour reflects intellectual ability.
If mastodon.cloud are unwilling or unable to moderate ethnic hatred, even when it's been reported to them by many people over several months, then they shouldn't be running an instance at all.
If my instance was allowing such crap, I would want to be told about it so that I could leave.
Joseph Quattrocchi
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Joseph Quattrocchi
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Tor Iver Wilhelmsen
in reply to Joseph Quattrocchi • • •Joseph Quattrocchi
in reply to Tor Iver Wilhelmsen • • •Fedi.Tips
in reply to Joseph Quattrocchi • • •@quattrocchi @toriver
Can you please stop using such ludicrous hyperbolic terms for what is just a server block on a federated network where people can move to different servers?
"executing a totalitarian cleansing"? Can you hear yourself? Are you serious or are you a troll?
Real life actual totalitarianism rises when lies about vulnerable groups are allowed to spread widely. Vulnerable groups get attacked and murdered in real life because of such lies: social.chinwag.org/@FediThing/…
FediThing 🏳️🌈 (@FediThing@chinwag.org)
Chinwag SocialJoseph Quattrocchi
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Tor Iver Wilhelmsen
in reply to Joseph Quattrocchi • • •Joseph Quattrocchi
in reply to Tor Iver Wilhelmsen • • •Tor Iver Wilhelmsen
in reply to Joseph Quattrocchi • • •Joseph Quattrocchi
in reply to Tor Iver Wilhelmsen • • •Fedi.Tips
in reply to Joseph Quattrocchi • • •@quattrocchi
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.
Unus Nemo
in reply to Joseph Quattrocchi • •@Joseph Quattrocchi @Fedi.Tips
Collective punishment would be if I allowed an unmoderated and unmaintained Instance to propagate to my Instance. I really could not blame my users for being upset if I did not block an Instance that is openly allowing racist material to be propagated by their Instance.
I am not about the Cancel Culture. Though reasonable moderation has to be present on an Instance for me to accept that it should be propagated. If you check my Instances Block List you will realize I do not block Instance arbitrarily.
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lars
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •leftic
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Design Thinking! Comic
in reply to leftic • • •Fedi.Tips
in reply to Design Thinking! Comic • • •@designthinkingcomic
If you want help with moving please feel free to ask! (I've tried to make the guide as easy as possible, and answer common questions, but guides aren't as useful as direct answers.)
Furbland's Very Cool Mastodon™
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Unus Nemo
in reply to Fedi.Tips • •@Fedi.Tips
I do not block Instances lightly, though allowing racists posts cross a line I cannot accept. I have blocked maston.cloud on my Instance for now until I see that the Instance Admin starts moderating again.
Fedi.Tips
Unknown parent • • •@AnhedonicHedonist
Yeah, that leads into a weird tale about money:
social.chinwag.org/@FediThing/…
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.
FediThing 🏳️🌈 (@FediThing@chinwag.org)
Chinwag SocialFedi.Tips
Unknown parent • • •@volcano
Yes! There are simple non-technical step-by-step instructions here:
➡️ fedi.tips/transferring-your-ma…
If you want any help with this please ask 🙂
Transferring your Mastodon account to another server | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
fedi.tipsFedi.Tips
Unknown parent • • •Thanks for the digging. If they are still updating makes it very odd that they stopped there, as the Masto developers specifically warn about no security patches to that branch since April 2025.
(And why are they on such an old branch anyway? And if they're updating why aren't they moderating?)
Joseph Quattrocchi
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •David
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Fedi.Tips
Unknown parent • • •Good god... are you sure? 😬
Pawoo is apparently defederated by many servers for illegal material: tweaking.thebad.space/location…
Is it really being run by the same people as mastodon.cloud? That's horrifying.
The Bad Space | Location Info
tweaking.thebad.spaceFedi.Tips
Unknown parent • • •@janggolan
If a server's moderation team is not responding to requests to moderate, and it hasn't posted in over 2 years, and its server software is running on a very out of date version, that implies the server isn't being actively maintained.
If the material to be moderated is extremely serious, and the server admin doesn't respond to multiple reports over several months, then the next step is typically defederation.
There is no other option if the server itself won't respond.
Joseph Quattrocchi
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Fedi.Tips
Unknown parent • • •@janggolan
"Why can't individual accounts just block each other as they have on other services?"
Here is why, explained in one short post: social.chinwag.org/@FediThing/…
FediThing 🏳️🌈 (@FediThing@chinwag.org)
Chinwag Socialkatherine montalto
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Fedi.Tips
in reply to katherine montalto • • •It's okay, you can move your account to another server and keep your followers, follows, bookmarks, lists, mutes and blocks. Also, your old posts will redirect people to your new account if you do the transfer process.
There's a step by step non-technical guide here which also advises on how to find a new server: fedi.tips/transferring-your-ma…
Let me know if you want help with any part of the transfer!
Transferring your Mastodon account to another server | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
fedi.tipskatherine montalto
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Fedi.Tips
in reply to katherine montalto • • •@katherine_montalto
That's why I set up fedi.garden to try to highlight the servers that have been around a long time and are well-run. Some of the servers listed have been around since 2017, and all of them have active moderation and promise three months warning if they ever shut down.
Mastodon has a similar official server list at joinmastodon.org/servers which also requires servers to have active moderation and promise three months warning if they ever decide to shut down.
Fedi.Garden
fedi.gardenkatherine montalto
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Joseph Quattrocchi
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Fedi.Tips
in reply to Joseph Quattrocchi • • •Maybe you would like to read this thread about a black grandfather living in terror and being threatened in the street because of poor moderation:
social.chinwag.org/@FediThing/…
Or maybe you would like to see this article about a massacre due to poor moderation:
thebureauinvestigates.com/stor…
Or a genocide exacerbated by poor moderation:
theguardian.com/technology/202…
Unmoderated social networks put innocent people in danger and get them killed. Even people who aren't online are in danger.
... show moreMaybe you would like to read this thread about a black grandfather living in terror and being threatened in the street because of poor moderation:
social.chinwag.org/@FediThing/…
Or maybe you would like to see this article about a massacre due to poor moderation:
thebureauinvestigates.com/stor…
Or a genocide exacerbated by poor moderation:
theguardian.com/technology/202…
Unmoderated social networks put innocent people in danger and get them killed. Even people who aren't online are in danger.
Rohingya sue Facebook for £150bn over Myanmar genocide
Dan Milmo (The Guardian)FediThing 🏳️🌈
2025-08-20 12:17:55
Joseph Quattrocchi
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Rina
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •So, I had to contact the owner of mastodon.cloud with no responsible. They might be in a long hiatus or they quitted moderating it and left it like that
We have suspended it on our end but thanks. Keep up the good work