If you or someone you know has an account on mastodon.cloud, I would highly recommend migrating to a new server.

[jerry@infosec.exchange]

If you or someone you know has an account on mastodon.cloud, I would highly recommend migrating to a new server. Lots of instances are in the process of completely blocking mastodon.cloud which will sever all connections for people on mastodon.cloud. Mastodon.cloud is effectively abandoned, running very old and out of date software with minimal moderation resulting in a good deal of moderation work for those of us running other instances.

I am posting this in hopes that some people on mastodon.cloud see it and decide to take action.

[jernej__s@infosec.exchange]

@jerry mastodon.cloud was my first instance, 9 years ago …

[jerry@infosec.exchange]

@jernej__s it started out good, but they got bought by the pawoo people and I think their attention is elsewhere in the crypto world now.

[jernej__s@infosec.exchange]

@jerry Yeah, I remember reading about that.

[darfplatypus@infosec.exchange]

@jerry how out of date we talking sounds ripe for radical unplanned moderation volunteer work not that anyone I know would do such a thing....

[jerry@infosec.exchange]

@darfplatypus it’s hard to know about the underlying operating system, but the version of mastodon they are running went end of support this time last year, and there’s been a number of significant vulnerabilities fixed since then, but none that I know of which would result in a server compromise. It’s behind Cloudflare, so they get a little bit of benefit from that I’m sure.

[rapsneezy2@mastodon.social]

@jerry

maybe they just value free speech?

[noodlemaz@mstdn.games]

@jerry @jernej__s dare I ask what pawoo is...

[thief_of_fire@infosec.exchange]

@rapsneezy2

[catsalad@infosec.exchange]

@jerry Can't remember if I have an account there

Let's see @catsalad@mastodon.cloud

[catsalad@infosec.exchange]

@jerry Guess not :3

[jernej__s@infosec.exchange]

@catsalad @jerry Quick, make one!

[insidertreat@infosec.exchange]

@catsalad @jerry No catsalad is the real reason everyone is going to block that instance.

[jerry@infosec.exchange]

@noodlemaz @jernej__s do you know what loli is?

[jerry@infosec.exchange]

@InsiderTreat is it even a real instance if it has no @catsalad account?

[buddhabuddy@mastodon.cloud]

@jerry ok thanks for the helpful notice... Now to figure a destination