🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“Elbows up but also creepy? https://www. theguardian.com/world/2026/may /11/canadians-visiting-us?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other # canada # uspol # surveillance # travel”

https://cosocial.ca/@maj/116556861545375228

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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“ICE to Develop Own Smart Glasses to 'Supplement' Its Facial Recognition App https://www.404media.co/ice-plans-to-develop-own-smart-glasses-to-supplement-its-facial-recognition-app/ # HackerNews # Tech # Survei...”

https://www.404media.co/ice-plans-to-develop-own-smart-glasses-to-supplement-its-facial-recognition-app/

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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“Truth.
# ChatControl # surveillance # algorithm # bigtech”

https://mastodon.social/@Kurosetii/116556286608294175

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TIL: there's a federated instance called infosex[.]exchange. Have I been in the wrong place all along?

#Fediverse

• Light on resources. I can run this on a potato if I wanted and it would run great (I'm not, but I could.)
• Backups are easy. Tar up the directory. Done.
• Migrations are easy. Install nginx, build snac, untar backup. Done.
• Quirky web interface. It takes a little to get used to it, but it is very functional and it's got character. I thought I would use Phanpy with it more, but I'm not. I enjoy the snac web interface.
• Works (mostly) with Mastodon clients.
• No crazy caching of photos, avatars and other media. This is a really big deal because my disk usage is so much lower than when I ran Mastodon.
• No database. NO DATABASE. So good.
• Fast. snac is really fast doing everything. It's nice.
• @grunfink@comam.es is awesome. Friendly and responsive.

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“This could be straight out of the backstory of my novel, Citizen Zero... https://www. theguardian.com/technology/202 6/may/11/ai-worker-control-surveillance # AI # surveillance # technology # socialjust...”

https://newsie.social/@Man0Words/116556191701746264

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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“Headline: taken. Since You Arrived · Vol. IV Me: Interesting site. If nothing else, it helps educate people about the personal information that is (potentially) "taken" from you by every website you visit. It got some ...”

https://mastodon.social/@DaveMasonDotMe/116552681562260141

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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“Knowing you # browser # fingerprint ... source: sinceyouarrived.world/taken A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No # login , no form, no # permission . Most pages ...”

https://anonsys.net/display/bf69967c-686a-00f6-b255-053632442913

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Hi, great fedinetwork!

You can never have enough sources on digital independence, self-hosting and data governance! I'm collecting sources for a talk on these topics and I would love some more info!

Do you have some favorite sources, websites, blogs or articles about these (or adjacent) subjects? Please drop them in a reply!

#fediverse #digitalsovereignty #digitalindependence #selfhosting #selfhosted #datagovernance #Privacy

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“Google Broke reCAPTCHA for De-Googled Android Users The company that decides whether you're a bot now also requires you run its software to prove otherwise. https:// reclaimthenet.org/google-broke -recaptcha-for-de...”

https://mastodon.online/@jonsnow/116551317356498705

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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“@ dw_innovation
https:// youtube.com/watch?v=Y07j3hXAI- g&si=yKT-JuV3H784g5SX # surveillance # cdnpoli”

https://mastodon.online/@ZebKing/116550975716801954

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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“Great idea: A web page that simply shows you the info your browser sends about you and your system whenever you open a web page.
https:// sinceyouarrived.world/taken # Privacy # Surveillance”

https://fediscience.org/@petersuber/116550782600202857

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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“# US # defense contractor who sold hacking tools to Russian broker ordered to pay $10M to former employers https:// techcrunch.com/2026/05/08/u-s- defense-contractor-who-sold-hacking-tools-to-russian-broker-ord...”

https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/116550638288492973

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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“De-Google Your Phone   https:// www.youtube.com/shorts/cOROPzF SfBg
# google ​ # privacy ​ # data ​ # tech ​ # surveillance”

https://loops.video/v/fzks9hxE0A

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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“RE: https:// mastodon.ar.al/@aral/116549069 855295011 Everyone doing this shit can get fucked. Not going to ID verify for shit anymore. Fuck off everyone involved # identityVerification # EU # europe # ...”

https://chaos.social/@agowa338/116549478486121806

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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“Scan your passport to join our social network. Don’t worry, it’s European. Needless to say, unless you’re a complete and utter fool, do not join W and warn your friends not to join W either. https:// wsocial.news/ ...”

https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/116549069855295011

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Dear Fedi, honest question:

Is it normal to see sexually explicit photos on public Pixelfed accounts?

... asking for a friend, of course.

#askfedi #askfediverse
#fediverse #omgwtf
#Pixelfed

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“So much use case, so little # privacy law. https:// futurism.com/future-society/ma n-smart-glasses-records-woman-demands-money # surveillance”

https://mastodon.social/@skry/116548910319297528

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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“# AI # surveillance "THE RISE OF EMOTIONAL SURVEILLANCE Companies are monitoring workers not just for productivity but for agreeability. The good news, for me at least, is that the computer thinks I have a nice p...”

https://kolektiva.social/@LevZadov/116546614760719754

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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“# Meta and # TikTok Are Getting Your Data From State # Healthcare Sites: Report According to a report from Bloomberg, all 20 state-run healthcare marketplaces include # advertising # trackers that share i...”

https://mas.to/@PrivacyDigest/116546430078633112

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Because Friendica and Hubzilla did not intrude into Mastodon's Fediverse. They were in the Fediverse before Mastodon.

You should care if you think that posting more than 500 characters is bad behaviour as it goes against "the Fediverse culture".

Because that "Fediverse culture" is only Mastodon's culture. And the culture on Friendica and Hubzilla, which pre-dates Mastodon itself by years, knows no character limits.

You should care if you think that Gargron is evil for introducing quote-posts to the Fediverse.

Because it was actually Mike Macgirvin, creator of Friendica and Hubzilla, who did that. In 2010. 16 years before now. Almost 6 years before Mastodon was even made.

And because just about everything that isn't Mastodon could quote-post Mastodon toots before Mastodon users even considered quote-posts evil.

You should care if you wish for "the Fediverse" to introduce certain new features. Like reply control. Or better list handlings. Or groups. Or even only more characters.

Because "the Fediverse" does have all these features. Just Mastodon doesn't have them. But Mastodon is not the Fediverse.

You should care if you don't want "the Fediverse" to ever introduce certain features. Like a higher default character limit. Or text formatting.

Because the Fediverse already has such features. As in, it can use these features in posts which it then sends to Mastodon. And there's nothing, absolutely nothing that Mastodon and its users can do against it. Except for muting and blocking.

You should care if you find it easier to use "Mastodon" and "Fediverse" synonymously, and all this "nitpicking" about when it's "Mastodon" and when it's "Fediverse" enrages you.

Because it enrages users in the non-Mastodon Fediverse when people say right into their faces that they toot. And/or that they're on Mastodon and therefore bound to the exact same rules and the exact same culture as everyone else on Mastodon. And they will so very much not let you have your way.

All these are things which, unfortunately, those who have never experienced anything else in the Fediverse than Mastodon will hardly ever understand.

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #Mastodon #QuotePost #QuotePosts #QuoteTweet #QuoteTweets #QuoteToot #QuoteToots #QuoteBoost #QuoteBoosts #QuotedShares #CharacterLimit #CharacterLimits #CharacterLimitMeta #CWCharacterLimitMeta #500Characters #NotOnlyMastodon #FediverseIsNotMastodon #MastodonIsNotTheFediverse

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“https:// reclaimthenet.org/the-fcc-want s-your-id-before-you-get-a-phone-number # privacy # fcc # surveillance # uspol”

https://infosec.exchange/@Prometheus/116545133495301579

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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“Most digital tools, as they are currently designed, are built to surveil. They collect as much data as possible by default, and your ability to constrain that data collection is limited at best. Your phone not only has a...”

https://c.im/@boksy/116544913005264029

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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“RE: https:// mstdn.social/@stux/11654459528 3746984 Hey @ EUCommission Go FUCK Yourself 🤡 # VPN # EU # Censorship # Surveillance”

https://mstdn.social/@keremgoart/116544789972185968

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Most of the rest still think (or they think they know):

• The Fediverse started with Mastodon. Gargron has invented the Fediverse.
• Everything that isn't Mastodon is either designed as a Mastodon add-on (Pixelfed, PeerTube etc.), or if it clearly isn't that, it's an intruder into the Mastodon Fediverse.
• If Mastodon doesn't have a feature, the Fediverse doesn't have that feature. This also means that if they succeed at keeping Mastodon from introducing a feature that they don't want, the whole Fediverse will never have it.

There are Mastodon users who "know for a fact" that Mastodon has just introduced quote-posts to the Fediverse, including an opt-out that works Fediverse-wide. They're blissfully unaware that a) Friendica and Hubzilla have been able to quote-post literally every single last public Mastodon toot since Mastodon's launch in 2016, and b) they both still are, opt-out or not.

And then there are those who spend two years or more thinking the entire Fediverse is a 500-character microblogging service, and who shit brix in sheer terror and hammer on the block button in sheer panic whenever a "toot" with more than 500 characters shows up in their timeline.

And, of course, those who try hard to force Mastodon's culture and Mastodon's rules, both of which are geared towards Mastodon and Mastodon only, upon users of server applications that are very very much not Mastodon. Because they think that Mastodon culture = Fediverse culture. And who, at the same time, fight everyone who suggests they do something that isn't inline with their perception of Mastodon's culture and rules.

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #Mastodon #QuotePost #QuotePosts #QuoteTweet #QuoteTweets #QuoteToot #QuoteToots #QuoteBoost #QuoteBoosts #QuotedShares #CharacterLimit #CharacterLimits #CharacterLimitMeta #CWCharacterLimitMeta #500Characters #NotOnlyMastodon #FediverseIsNotMastodon #MastodonIsNotTheFediverse

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“@ Natasha_Jay @ wobs Ahnjili Zhuparris made a pretty awesome one of these called # YourHistoryOnThisSite to demonstrate how much information is available from interactions and the # surveillance ecosystem o...”

https://mastodon.publicinterest.town/@b_cavello/116544767009048295

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According to France 24, there are a number of European social media apps launching that aim to challenge the existing tech giants. This seems unlikely to me, and it's unfortunate that there is no mention of the existing alternatives (the Fediverse) in the article. Mediocre journalism at best.

#SocialMedia #Fedi #Fediverse

https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260509-europe-based-social-networks-launch-bid-to-challenge-tech-giants

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“Brilliantly done. This link shows you the simple stuff your interaction with a website gives. Share it with friends. https:// sinceyouarrived.world/taken # privacy # surveillance”

https://mastodon.social/@knowprose/116544706629441000

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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“I've been rewatching the tv series, Person of Interest (2011). It's writing covers ai usage in the context of surveillance at a meta level, with plenty of action. Very Asimovian at that level. I recommend watching it i...”

https://mastodon.social/@knowprose/116544661376236377

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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“"Ironically, several of the people who had been included in the set without any consent are known for their work critiquing surveillance and facial recognition itself, including filmmaker Laura Poitras, digital rights ac...”

https://mastodon.acm.org/@MrBerard/116544589356536112

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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“"Forcing users to verify their identity before accessing # VPN services could significantly weaken anonymity protections and create new risks around # surveillance and data collection. VPN providers and other # pr...”

https://mastodon.me.uk/@PoliceStateUK/116544457597572769

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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“To all the # Government [s] of the world: You subject us to lofty ideals like # DataLocalization and invasive surveillance like # ChatControl in the pretense of # privacy , # security and # LawEnforcement ...”

https://fosstodon.org/@goku12/116543881614701031

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@internetarchive

If The New York Times, The Atlantic, ans USA Today are preventing archiving or caching of their content, perhaps Mastodon and Misskey administrators should be denying these publishers from trending.

#Mastodon #Misskey #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Hello Fediverse!

We are pleased to be joining the Federated Universe today, with this new Mastodon account! 🐢

We are Lockdown Systems,
a worker-owned collective building freedom and privacy technologies to inform the public, fight surveillance, and empower people to take back control of their own data.

Our projects include:
🐦️ @cyd
🧅 OnionShare
🧊 ICE Detention Map
🥚 And more to come!

To learn more about our collective, you can visit our website at: https://lockdown.systems

We're excited to start sharing our work with the Fediverse! 🎉

#Fediverse #Mastodon #LockdownSystems #DigitalRights #HumanRights #Privacy #OpenSource

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“"Even if your privacy add-ons are working well, you may still be vulnerable if your browser fingerprint is unique. So we also analyze the uniqueness of your browser and let you know how it stacks up to other visitors we’...”

https://mastodon.social/@cobblefresh/116543350894990402

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@internetarchive

If The New York Times, The Atlantic, ans USA Today are preventing archiving or caching of their content, perhaps Mastodon and Misskey administrators should be denying these publishers from trending.

#Mastodon #Misskey #Fediverse #ActivityPub

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“Echo Juliet is doing Friday things. https:// globe.airplanes.live/?icao=a50 e9f # Portland # Surveillance”

https://mastodon.world/@YakyuNightOwl/116542302269765109

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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“La Bohème. "An entire audience at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City was put at risk for measles during an April 25 matinee of La Bohème, according to several news outlets. The infected person was unvaccinate...”

https://hachyderm.io/@rationaldoge/116541367884034771

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#Glowing #Rose #Petals by Kaye Menner #Photography Wide variety #Prints & lovely #Products at:

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Alt...

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0. The first line of moderation should not be the instance admin. Each user account should be able to moderate mentions of their ID, or replies to their comments.

1. The top poster of a comment thread should be able to moderate all reply comments under that thread.

2. Instance admins should only delete posts that are clearly designed to offend, hurt, or viciously attack, bully, harass, gaslight, annoy etc. but should never delete a post simply on ideological grounds or heated but honest disagreement or debate. Telling the difference is very simple in almost all cases: tone and mindless repetition being the biggest giveaways of the respondent's intent. If it becomes an unwanted or unproductive argument the top poster should be able to quash replies.

3. Users should be able to click a button to block and entire thread regardless of who posts to it.

These things are not a major problem for me since I'm on a simple instance and I can add users to my personal blacklist via CLI. It would be nice to see this kind of stuff as standard, basic button functions in activitypub and fediverse since not everyone wants to run an instance and use CLI scripts to moderate.

#mastodon #fediverse #moderation #postDeletion #activitypub #social

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“"CA AG Rob Bonta, together with SF DA Brooke Jenkins, LA DA Nathan J. Hochman, Napa County DA Allison Haley, and Sonoma County DA Carla Rodriguez, and with support from CalPrivacy, today announced a settlement with GM re...”

https://mas.to/@meganL/116540556465861583

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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“Rebel Tech Alliance held a workshop last month at the Resisting Big Tech Empires conference, and it was great to shut down the # surveillance settings in 90 people's phones at once. You too can do this now - all tho...”

https://mastodon.social/@patrickleavy/116539910296753459

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Actually, here’s what I really think is lacking: a hide post moderation option in Mastodon.

Instead of deleting posts, moderators should be able to hide posts.

Posts that are hidden by moderators should keep their place in the timeline but state publicly that they were hidden by moderators.

(Servers other than the originating server must treat hidden posts as otherwise deleted and remove their local cache of the content. This is no different to the existing social contact for federated deletes.)

The server should also clearly communicate to the person in question (this can be automated) that their post has been hidden and that they can challenge the decision via regular channels by filing an appeal. (And, if they don’t like the moderation, they can move to a different server, etc., as per usual.)

That would feel much better to me than deleting a post outright and it can be combined with a moderation policy that promises not to delete or edit other people’s posts.

It would also allow for an appeal process and the possible reinstatement of a post should it be found that a moderation error has occurred.

CC @staff @haubles

#mastodon #moderation #fediverse #postDeletion #postHiding #authorship #censorship #ownership

🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse

“# Gent , WTF? # surveillance # camera # OpenStreetMap”

https://en.osm.town/@pietervdvn/116539802791539451

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So I hasn’t realised that Mastodon GmbH (mastodon.social) also runs mastodon.online.

This is troubling, to say the least.

#mastodon #fediverse #federation #censorship #mastodonOnline #mastodonSocial #mastodonGmbH

Right, fediverse, let me know what you think. Long-form comments also welcome.

Mastodon instance moderators should…

#mastodon #fediverse #moderation #postDeletion