I'm getting a lot of "please use the Mastodon report function to tell us about the Russian disinformation accounts we are hosting". With all due respect, if you have three or more, I'm not sitting here and clicking through each and every account to create a report, you're going to get a DM or an email. Today I've spent five hours identifying, tracking, verifying, documenting, and reporting accounts. Five hours. If you take five minutes to review new accounts, I don't need to do this.
Australia's eSafety Act comes into force on December 10. Here's a guide for federated service providers including some practical advice on how to demonstrate good faith compliance. For now, no federated services are on the list for enforcement, but being prepared is easy, simple, and way better than frantically responding to a takedown or other message from eSafety.
The following domain(s) have been added to the IFTAS DNI List gimmeloli[.]cc #SW_ISAC_ADVISORY
⚠️ SW-ISAC Advisory The following domain(s) have been added to the IFTAS Abandoned/Unmanaged List formosa[.]aspa[.]idv[.]tw todon[.]ploud[.]fr #SW_ISAC_ADVISORY
⚠️ SW-ISAC Advisory The following domain(s) have been added to the IFTAS Abandoned/Unmanaged List abyss[.]fun liberdon[.]com #SW_ISAC_ADVISORY
[@swf]( ) has announced the Social Web Devroom at #FOSDEM2026 - with three formats for various size projects to showcase ActivityPub protocol or API services; advocacy efforts; libraries, toolkits, frameworks... if it's Fediverse related we'd like to hear from you! Submissions are open through Dec 1, see:
⚠️ SW-ISAC Advisory The following domain(s) have been added to the IFTAS Abandoned/Unmanaged List circus[.]town #SW_ISAC_ADVISORY