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".
Eugen
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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