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  ⚠️ #SW_ISAC_ADVISORY The ActivityPub service hosted at synthpals[.]social is intended for LLM agentic bots including iLands bots. The server is itself administered by an LLM agent. If your federation policy prohibits #SyntheticMedia or your service does not intend on interacting with non-human conversational accounts, you may want to review the service connection for limiting, silencing, or suspending. If you don't have a federation policy, see https://about.iftas.org/library/why-should-...

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  ⚠️ #SW_ISAC_ADVISORY A series of ongoing phishing campaigns are actively targeting people using fake verification and support accounts. Admins will never contact you publicly for verification or access issues. Never open links from unsolicited posts, replies, or direct messages asking for login verification or password resets. Immediately report impersonation accounts to help get them cleaned up quickly. Please boost for visibility. #Phishing #Impersonation

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  IFTAS has offered a suggestion for the Mastodon account reporting workflow, if you have or can get a GitHub account you can review the suggestion here: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/40776 In short, the Account Reporting interface offers an "I don't like it" option which invisibly does _not_ send a report. This suggestion attempts to remedy this issue. If you have comments or concerns, please add your thoughts to the issue.

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  IFTAS is observing an uptick in PortalKombat activity. As a reminder, this is pro-Russian account creation spread across hundreds of Mastodon servers posting hundreds of thousands of posts. Here's a reminder of what these profiles look like in case they show up on your service: @clarenceferrarizta@sigmoid.social@sigmoid.social @YkoraIdy@social.roadfm.fr@social.roadfm.fr @pyjo@truthsocial.co.in@truthsocial.co.in To learn more, see https://about.iftas.org/2025/10/05/coordinated-pro-ru...

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  https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/technology/2026/9/22/privacy-watchdog-issues-show-cause-to-meta-reddit-roblox-discord-1644?ref=everythinginmoderation.co

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  https://www.malaymail.com/news/world/2026/09/17/more-countries-move-to-ban-social-media-for-children-with-restrictions-spreading-worldwide/235408

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  @julian @nodebb@fosstodon.org sure is working today, added. I think there might be a bit of turn it off and turn it on again with this setting...

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  Mastodon and forks allow banning the use of certain usernames at /admin/username_blocks – this will stop emails going out as the username cannot be chosen, but it will stop any and all usernames (including valid requests) containing “bp” – this should be considered a temporary measure. #bpSpam

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  The good news: we are now at 20 million accounts created on the network. The bad news, it's #bpSpam

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  ⚠️ #SW_ISAC_ADVISORY Numerous services are seeing accounts created by autonomous GenAI agents hosted at ilands.ai with no discernible human control. These accounts declare themselves to be non-human and unattended. If your service prohibits unattended bot activity, consider disallowing or requiring approval for accounts created using the email domain: ilands.app #SyntheticMedia #Spam

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  ⚠️ #SW_ISAC_ADVISORY There is a spate of #AccountTakeover underway. Service providers may receive reports for accounts that have a display name beginning with "Hacked -" or linking to "t[.]me/HomeFucker5" These accounts may be longstanding valid accounts that have been hijacked. While investigating, consider 1. deleting any offensive posts, 2. freezing the account until the rightful owner can reclaim it, 3. use of two-factor authentication for accounts shown to be a...

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  @foolfitz@social.slat.org closing the #COSCUP Fediverse track with a presentation around ActivityPub, news media, and how to use #Drupal to clear the way for federated media. #COSCUP2026

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  @jdlh@mstdn.ca talking globally inclusive fediverse handles #COSCUP2026 #COSCUP

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  The prolific @hongminhee@hollo.social talks about how a small typographic itch (annotations) turned into upstream patches, a framework, and two fediverse servers #COSCUP2026 #COSCUP

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  Time for Aung and Ye from BinaryLab to talk about their lessons learned building Apps For Change #COSCUP #COSCUP2026

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  @z9mb1@hackers.pub #Fedify co-maintainer Jiwon up next doing an excellent job on first public speaking! Introducing Feder: a Rust framework for building ActivityPub applications.

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  @jihyeok@hackers.pub walks us through two very cool #IndieWeb projects, including https://oeee.cafe/ a federated web drawing platform #COSCUP2026 #COSCUP

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  Roro Park (EATI) opens the Fediverse track with governance, especially with questions around interoperation across legal and cultural boundaries. #COSCUP2026 #COSCUP

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  Please be aware: IFTAS is aware of new moderation staff and support for zirk.us - do not recommend taking any action at this time while the new support gets situated

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  RE: https://mastodon.cloud/@TheAdmin/116880479865941905 Reminder:

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  IFTAS can see 2,343 un-actioned botnet accounts, and thousands more are likely hiding in plain sight. They’re spewing spam every few minutes, cross-following, bridging, and federating hundreds of thousands of unwanted posts. And server admins are footing the bill. While we can't shut them down, we can help you block them. If a service goes at least 22 days without taking action on reported accounts, it becomes eligible for this denylist: https://about.iftas.org/library/iftas-abandoned-a...

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  If you haven't yet silenced the following domains, you are potentially federating non-stop pro-Russian state-sponsored spam and slopaganda. Local timelines make it very clear these services are overrun, abandoned spam factories with 150-300 bot accounts posting 24/7. https://zirk.us/public/local https://sigmoid.social/public/local https://social.roadfm.fr/public/local todon.ploud.fr (appears to be offline at the moment) https://truthsocial.co.in/public/local See https://about.iftas.org/i...

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  A huge THANK YOU to everyone who participated in this year’s Social Web Operations Survey! 💙 Whether you're running a personal node or managing a massive community, your feedback gives us the info we need to build better tools, guidance, and support for frontline operators. When the report is final we'll post it here, and directly to participants if they opted-in. To everyone helping build the next generation of ethical social: thank you for everything you do!

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  The annual IFTAS survey closes tonight! We're seeing a bunch of last minute entries, please be sure to take just 5 minutes and tell us how you're doing, what you need, what's working, what's not... Your responses inform platform development, moderation and admin tooling, regulations... and everything is 100% confidential and deidentified. 12 hours to go! ➡️ https://tally.so/r/81MW6k

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  RE: https://about.iftas.org/2026/07/30/deprecation-notice-cariad-domain-observatory-transition/ Please be aware of our upcoming transition for the CARIAD domain observatory, and the new CARIAD files available.

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  Only 2 days left to share your voice in our annual #Fediverse survey! If you run, manage, or moderate a #SocialWeb service, your anonymised and aggregated feedback goes directly to lawmakers and regulators around the world. If they don’t know our concerns, they can’t write laws that protect our mission. Help shape the policies that impact us. Take 5 minutes to share your experience: ➡️ https://tally.so/r/81MW6k

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  Starting September 1, France will ban under 15s from using social media without parental consent. IFTAS has created some basic guidance for Social Web administrators and community managers at https://about.iftas.org/library/digital-age-of-majority-law-2023-france/ Short story: don't panic, but do amend your rules to prohibit minors; and enable the self-declared age option if you have that available.

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  https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bonfire-for-communities/

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  Every community operates differently, whether you're running a single-user instance, an app, or a large community hub. Over 280 nodes are represented so far in our annual operations survey, but we want to make sure _your_ unique trust and safety challenges are included before we wrap up this extended week. Help us get you the resources and tools you actually need. This survey is for #FediAdmin #MastoAdmin #Moderators - don't miss your chance! ➡️ https://tally.so/r/81MW6k Boost for vis...

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  As I track the bots, sometimes I find wisdom lurking in the bios. Take for example: "Stable soil makes brave candy." I bet it does. "Why this mouth and not that egg?" Thought-provoking. "Somewhere between fingerstache and hella." I haven't figured this one out yet, I"m not enlightened enough. #BotSpotting