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1. Eugen 🎄 (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 28-Dec-2017 14:15:11 UTC Eugen 🎄

   This might be important for other Mastodon admins so I think at least a summary is necessary.

   Yesterday my 🐦 account for Mastodon was dragged into a discussion about counter.social. That is a Mastodon instance/fork that claims to be "hardened" against "hostile nations".

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   • Eugen 🎄 (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 28-Dec-2017 14:16:46 UTC Eugen 🎄

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     What this means in practice is that some branding was slapped on the frontpage, profiles were broken to be unviewable while logged out, federation with other Mastodon nodes was broken or disabled, and IP addresses of countries like Russia, Iran and China were added to their Cloudflare block settings.

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   • h@social.coop's status on Thursday, 28-Dec-2017 14:38:53 UTC h

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     @aeonofdiscord @enkiv2 @Gargron Just a gang of mercenaries and assholes. This is why.

     https://books.google.com/books?id=ucE1AAAAQBAJ&pg=PT312&lpg=PT312&dq=encyclopedia+dramatica+jester&source=bl&ots=x2CBzQTcJ2&sig=Y0IW7ZFrkG6WR7Oq-TrsOpA8Ct8&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjIvPXx9azYAhVJxpAKHUIzCzYQ6AEIWzAI#v=onepage&q=encyclopedia%20dramatica%20jester&f=false

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   • Victorian Sparkgap Kitsune (enkiv2@niu.moe)'s status on Thursday, 28-Dec-2017 14:40:12 UTC Victorian Sparkgap Kitsune

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     @aeonofdiscord @h @Gargron
     He's a hyper-patriotic vigilante & the kind of person who annoys the whole infosec sector by accusing them of treason for doing their job. I haven't seen any evidence that he's anything but a skiddie, aside from his big mouth.

     He got some press for shitting on Snowden/Manning/etc. a few years ago.

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   • solidarity with ppl in rojava (paulfree14@todon.nl)'s status on Thursday, 28-Dec-2017 15:09:37 UTC solidarity with ppl in rojava

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     @Gargron @aeonofdiscord @enkiv2 @h

     this is not one of the better articles, some points might be false.

     ...but the basic message is that he's in collaboration with the us military.
     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jester_(hacktivist)

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   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Friday, 29-Dec-2017 02:48:38 UTC Hallå Kitteh

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     @enkiv2 @gargron @h Who is that?
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Friday, 29-Dec-2017 02:50:04 UTC Hallå Kitteh

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     @gargron @h @enkiv2 Yeah, saw it seconds later. Sorry.