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    <title>Packet Garden</title>
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    <description>News on the internet covered by Anna Beaumont</description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 15:48:48 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>neondystopia.world need to be shut down</title>
      <link>https://paper.wf/packetgarden/neondystopia-world-need-to-be-shut-down</link>
      <description>&lt;![CDATA[If you are wondering what I am talking about, I am going to explain. &#xA;&#xA;neondystopia.world is A misskey server that have an open policy for people to speak freely without moderation. &#xA;&#xA;That server was under fire for federating with multiple bad servers on the fediverse. Many people including me have been annoyed of their federation list. &#xA;&#xA;A few group of people came to me exposing neondystopia.world for having lack of moderation. At  first I said to myself &#34;Maybe the admins were busy with something&#34; &#xA;&#xA;Until a person came out telling me that their network admin was boosting racist content on his account. So I was shocked  like crazy when I heard about it.&#xA;&#xA;Then I made a fediblock post about that server and some admins agreed on what I said. But one of the admins of neondystopia.world didn&#39;t like what I posted and claimed it as &#34;misinformation&#34; and told me to delete the fediblock post  and I did which was the first mistake I made. &#xA;&#xA;Then the admin of neondystopia.world  told me to talk to him via DM which was suspicious 🤔  at the beginning so I thought why I don&#39;t get more information from the admins of neondystopia.world. but what I received was a bunch of fake images and accounts that weren&#39;t even exist from the beginning. &#xA;&#xA;They lied alot about the federation list saying it wasn&#39;t their fault and it was the network admin of neondystopia.world who imported them to neondystopia.world which is false. Because you have to manually add servers to your home instance]]&gt;</description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you are wondering what I am talking about, I am going to explain.</p>

<p>neondystopia.world is A misskey server that have an open policy for people to speak freely without moderation.</p>

<p>That server was under fire for federating with multiple bad servers on the fediverse. Many people including me have been annoyed of their federation list.</p>

<p>A few group of people came to me exposing neondystopia.world for having lack of moderation. At  first I said to myself “<em>Maybe the admins were busy with something</em>“</p>

<p>Until a person came out telling me that their network admin was boosting racist content on his account. So I was shocked  like crazy when I heard about it.</p>

<p>Then I made a fediblock post about that server and some admins agreed on what I said. But one of the admins of neondystopia.world didn&#39;t like what I posted and claimed it as “misinformation” and told me to delete the fediblock post  and I did which was the first mistake I made.</p>

<p>Then the admin of neondystopia.world  told me to talk to him via DM which was suspicious 🤔  at the beginning so I thought why I don&#39;t get more information from the admins of neondystopia.world. but what I received was a bunch of fake images and accounts that weren&#39;t even exist from the beginning.</p>

<p>They lied alot about the federation list saying it wasn&#39;t their fault and it was the network admin of neondystopia.world who imported them to neondystopia.world which is false. Because you have to manually add servers to your home instance</p>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 18:23:48 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Kolektiva.social was raided and deleted a post that wasn&#39;t bad</title>
      <link>https://paper.wf/packetgarden/kolektiva-social-was-raided-and-deleted-a-post-that-wasnt-bad</link>
      <description>&lt;![CDATA[Kolektiva.social was raided in May 2023, leaving its database unencrypted. The FBI seized this database, which frightened many Kolektiva.social admins.&#xA;&#xA;Kolektiva.social admins posted:&#xA;&#xA;“The database is the heart of a Mastodon server. A database copy such as the one seized may include any of the following user data, up to date as of early May 2023.”&#xA;&#xA;Kolektiva.social admins also said one admin was charged with something they did not do. That incident made those admins worry about another raid.&#xA;&#xA;They also stated:&#xA;&#xA;“As a precaution, we highly recommend all users on Kolektiva.social change their password immediately to a new, unique, and strong password.”&#xA;&#xA;“We sincerely apologize to all our users and regret this breach. Leaving a copy of the database unencrypted was obviously a mistake.”&#xA;&#xA;Which is true, and I fully agree. But the problem does not stop here. A member of that server got a post deleted for being &#34;antisemitic,&#34; &#xA;&#xA;I have read the post that got leaked which is not illegal to post on Mastodon.&#xA;&#xA;A post about a termination of a post: https://kolektiva.social/@Quasit/116726888048342047&#xA;&#xA;A post from beige.party: https://beige.party/@Quasit/116727342202756390&#xA;&#xA;kolektiva.social raid: https://techstory.in/privacy-concerns-escalate-as-fbi-seizes-server-copy-from-mastodon-network-without-subpoena/&#xA;&#xA;EFF: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/fbi-seizure-mastodon-server-wakeup-call-fediverse-users-and-hosts-protect-their]]&gt;</description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Kolektiva.social was raided in May 2023, leaving its database unencrypted. The FBI seized this database, which frightened many Kolektiva.social admins.</p>

<p>Kolektiva.social admins posted:</p>

<p>“The database is the heart of a Mastodon server. A database copy such as the one seized may include any of the following user data, up to date as of early May 2023.”</p>

<p>Kolektiva.social admins also said one admin was charged with something they did not do. That incident made those admins worry about another raid.</p>

<p>They also stated:</p>

<p>“As a precaution, we highly recommend all users on Kolektiva.social change their password immediately to a new, unique, and strong password.”</p>

<p>“We sincerely apologize to all our users and regret this breach. Leaving a copy of the database unencrypted was obviously a mistake.”</p>

<p>Which is true, and I fully agree. But the problem does not stop here. A member of that server got a post deleted for being “antisemitic,”</p>

<p>I have read the post that got leaked which is not illegal to post on Mastodon.</p>

<p>A post about a termination of a post: <a href="https://kolektiva.social/@Quasit/116726888048342047" rel="nofollow">https://kolektiva.social/@Quasit/116726888048342047</a></p>

<p>A post from beige.party: <a href="https://beige.party/@Quasit/116727342202756390" rel="nofollow">https://beige.party/@Quasit/116727342202756390</a></p>

<p>kolektiva.social raid: <a href="https://techstory.in/privacy-concerns-escalate-as-fbi-seizes-server-copy-from-mastodon-network-without-subpoena/" rel="nofollow">https://techstory.in/privacy-concerns-escalate-as-fbi-seizes-server-copy-from-mastodon-network-without-subpoena/</a></p>

<p>EFF: <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/fbi-seizure-mastodon-server-wakeup-call-fediverse-users-and-hosts-protect-their" rel="nofollow">https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/fbi-seizure-mastodon-server-wakeup-call-fediverse-users-and-hosts-protect-their</a></p>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 17:35:48 +0000</pubDate>
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