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⚠️ 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-The server software is very outdated and full of unpatched security holes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

#MastodonCloud #FediBlock

#fediblock #mastodoncloud
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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…

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Ari Sovijärvi

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.
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Rycochet

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.
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@Rycochet

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?

Servers

Find where to sign up for the decentralized social network Mastodon.
joinmastodon.org
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