Well, after enabling captcha and watching spam registrations continue + a bit of taunting from the newly registered spam accounts, I feel confident that this is, in fact, not driven by bots. Yet there are aspects that still look like they are.
The battle against spam signups to Infosec.exchange continues. At least a hundred so far. And zero spams sent. I suspect the actor here will get annoyed soon and try a ddos next. Time to accelerate that move behind fastly.
It’s not even 6am where I’m at and I’ve already apparently illegally suspended the account of a Brazilian super model who just signed up. How’s your day going?
Osiris Rex’s sample lands in just under an hour. I look forward to seeing video of the aliens busting out of the container on live TV: https://www.nasa.gov/nasalive
There’s a lot of consternation in the fediverse lately about instances blocking each other, admins fighting, blocklists, and the like. If you’re on an instance that blocks other communities you want to participate in, politely ask your moderators/administrators to reconsider. If they disagree, I recommend moving to a different instance rather than a prolonged argument. Some administrators prefer erring on the side of over blocking and protecting their user base than being permissive and expose their userbase to riff raff or, in some instances, just to avoid the appearance of being too permissive to other instances.
Life is short. Find an instance that works for you.
(Edit: and the converse is true - if your instance is overly permissive and you are regularly being harassed or otherwise bothered and your moderators aren’t responding as you expect, find another instance that is better aligned to your needs. Life is still too short. Find an instance that works for you)
@jerry
I'm glad i have the social skills of a Koala, and mute anyone posting anything resembling emotional drama. In other words this is the first I've heard of it 🐨
@jerry years ago before automated deploy tools, we built our own frontend deploy interface on git. For one april fools we built in a randomizer: deploy a random tag to a random environment. not saying anything..
Is anyone using the Mastodon app on Android having trouble logging into infosec.exchange or other mastodon instances, with the error that it "seems not to be a Mastodon server"?
I don't have android and it appears to be working fine on iOS
Something to note for people using Mastodon 4.2.0-xxx - the advanced/multi-column layout now has a different URL. If you use a shortcut to get to a mastodon instance and have the advanced web interface enabled, you will land on a non-advanced, single column layout. Update your shortcuts to include "deck", such as:
infosec.exchange/public/local becomes infosec.exchange/deck/public/local