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Admin Jerry

@admin.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy

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Admin/owner of this Mastodon server. I play around with Linux. I also own: Phanpy: phanpy.hear-me.social Peertube: my-sunshine.video Pixelfed […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ hear-me.social/@admin, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Admin Jerry @admin.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

In the past 24 hours, my firewall has stopped 172 malicious or spam account creations on this Mastodon server and 34 on my Mobilizon server. Four humans got through the firewall and opened accounts here, one on Mobilizon. Can you believe how bad it has gotten? I keep registration open when […]

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Admin Jerry @admin.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

Is there anyone with a lot of cash who'd like to partner with me to support this Mastodon server? This server is, and will always be, free. But besides the time, it costs about $186/month. With my other federated servers, my monthly cost is really high. If you can comfortably donate to be a […]

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IFTAS @iftas.mastodon.iftas.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

⚠️ #SW_ISAC_ADVISORY The ActivityPub service hosted at synthpals[.]social is intended for LLM agentic bots including iLands bots. The server is itself administered by an LLM agent. If your federation policy prohibits #SyntheticMedia or your service does […] [Original post on mastodon.iftas.org]

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IFTAS @iftas.mastodon.iftas.org.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

⚠️ #SW_ISAC_ADVISORY The #bpSpam attack continues, and if you have implemented a username ban on "bp" you should now also add "usr_"

New bpSpam accounts using a username usr_ followed by random letters and numbers

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IFTAS @iftas.mastodon.iftas.org.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

⚠️ #SW_ISAC_ADVISORY A series of ongoing phishing campaigns are actively targeting people using fake verification and support accounts. Admins will never contact you publicly for verification or access issues. Never open links from unsolicited posts […] [Original post on mastodon.iftas.org]

Example of a phishing post, including the text "ᴀᴜᴛᴏᴍᴀᴛᴇᴅ ꜱʏꜱᴛᴇᴍꜱ ᴅᴇᴛᴇᴄᴛᴇᴅ ɪʀʀᴇɢᴜʟᴀʀ ᴀᴄᴛɪᴠɪᴛʏ ᴡɪᴛʜ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴀᴄᴄᴏᴜɴᴛ.

ᴛᴏ ʀᴇꜱᴛᴏʀᴇ ꜰᴜʟʟ ᴠɪsɪʙɪʟɪᴛʏ ᴀɴᴅ ᴀᴄᴄᴇꜱꜱ, ᴘʟᴇᴀꜱᴇ ᴄᴏᴍᴘʟᴇᴛᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴠᴇʀɪꜰɪᴄᴀᴛɪᴏɴ ᴘʀᴏᴄᴇꜱꜱ."

Admin Jerry @admin.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

RE: feddit.online/c/rss_feed_for_mobili… For those interested...

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Admin Jerry @admin.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

@iftas I set up a rule in Mastodon to require approval for any name with "bp" and after rejecting dozens manually, I finally set up a Cloudflare edge rule. So far it has blocked 59 attempts to open accounts here after running for about 8 hours today (10-Sep) What is wrong with this person? The […]

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Admin Jerry @admin.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

@SPF @Tusky Yes i do. I tightened the firewall to stop scrapers claiming to be on mobile phones but not coming in via cell providers. Apparently your VPN is being blocked. Which VPN are you using? I'll make sure to unblock it.

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Admin Jerry @admin.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

hear-me.social was just updated to V4.7. Q: What differences will you see in this important and large upgrade? A: None what-so-ever. Q: Why is this then an important and large upgrade? A: It brings major "under-the-hood" changes that make the server faster, safer, and more reliable. Q: How […]

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Admin Jerry @admin.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

We're losing 2 notable Mastodon servers within 3 months of each other. mastodon.cloud with about 4,000 active users is closing in 6 days. And toot.community with about 1,700 is closing in 3 months. Unsure why mastodon.cloud is closing, but toot.community seems to be admin burnout and financial […]

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IFTAS @iftas.mastodon.iftas.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026

If you haven't yet silenced the following domains, you are potentially federating non-stop pro-Russian state-sponsored spam and slopaganda. Local timelines make it very clear these services are overrun, abandoned spam factories with 150-300 bot accounts posting 24/7 […]

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Admin Jerry @admin.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026

I tell you, sometimes... I got a report about an account here. It points to a ridiculously long essay on some website analyzing this referenced account and listing copy/pasted post responses this person supposedly made that prove this person is a bigot. Well, tl;dr. The report then ends with a […]

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Admin Jerry @admin.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026

Amazing how many times Elon Musk has tried opening an account on this server. I just suspended yet another scammer claiming to be the real Elon Musk. I truly hope people don't believe that Elon Musk would write to them from a Mastodon account.

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Admin Jerry @admin.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/06/2026

On this instance, I've enjoyed using the #TangerineUI custom themes. Maybe you have too. Sadly, they are incompatible with the latest Mastodon version, 4.6. I am hoping to upgrade this server to 4.6 either later today or tomorrow. When I do, these themes will no longer be in the server. In the […]

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Admin Jerry @admin.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/05/2026

In the past 24 hours, these spiders have ignored my robots.txt file and tried scanning the database anyway. They were all blocked. Claude (thousands more attempts than the others) Baiduspider Amazonbot Bytespider gptbot Meta-ExternalAgent YandexBot ChatGPT ByteSpider CommonCrawl ClaudeBot […]

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Admin Jerry @admin.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2026

My #PieFed server, feddit.online, sometime early this morning, got caught in an #AI bot scraping storm. The server became completely unresponsive. About 60% of the bot traffic came from Vietnam, 20% from Bangladesh, and the rest from multiple other countries. #Claude was about 8% of the bot […]

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Admin Jerry @admin.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/04/2026

@iftas I just had a look there. There are a number of known scammer accounts set up on there, like Lillian, Tara, Elysia, and multiple versions of themselves. I limited zirk.us for now. I didn't block it because there are a number of follow relationships here that I don't want to break. Anyone […]

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Admin Jerry @admin.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/04/2026

@iftas My understanding is that med-mastodon.com is also permanently shuttered.

Admin Jerry @admin.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/02/2026

For people on hear-me.social: I use my own email server, which enjoys a stellar reputation. Please maintain a usable email address for your account. If notifications from the server to your email address begin hard bouncing due to a non-existent email address, this will impact my email […]

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Admin Jerry @admin.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/02/2026

The hear-me.social server was just updated to V4.5.6, a small bug fix release that was released this morning. More information is here: github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releas…

Release v4.5.6 · mastodon/mastodon

Upgrade overview This release contains upgrade notes that deviate from the norm: ℹ️ Requires assets recompilation For more information, view the complete release notes and scroll down to the upgrad...

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Admin Jerry @admin.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/02/2026

And, by the way, he uses different names all the time, but you can tell it's him by his style and techniques.

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Admin Jerry @admin.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/02/2026

#Fediblock is being abused for harassment and revenge. Most of you know "Jimmy Truth" who has been suspended by almost every Mastodon instance so far for harassment, misinformation, transphobia, fascism, religious intolerance, and every other rule you can think of. His new tactic is to […]

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Admin Jerry @admin.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/01/2026

I suspended 3 accounts today that were created to spew Russian propaganda. This has become a daily ritual. The accounts get created but do nothing for a number of days and then start spewing the stupidest stuff about Ukraine and the U.S. I think I have 3 more sleeper accounts created in the […]

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Admin Jerry @admin.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/01/2026

I just updated the server to version V4.5.5, a small bug-fix update. More information is here: github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releas…

Release v4.5.5 · mastodon/mastodon

Upgrade overview This release contains upgrade notes that deviate from the norm: ℹ️ Requires assets recompilation For more information, view the complete release notes and scroll down to the upgrad...

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Admin Jerry @admin.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/12/2025

#FediBlock Nanook is the instance owner of friendica[.].eskimo[.].com, and there are only 2 rules on his instance. Nothing illegal, and you can't attack anyone for saying anything they want (rules that are dog whistles for the worst). He's anti-Semitic, at […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

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Nanook @nanook@friendica.eskimo.com 26 Jun
J) Problem is nobody presents us with a viable altemative, both parties are owned by the Jews, hell 5% of congress has dual Israeli-US citizenship, this shouldn't even be allowed. And war is good for the Jews because it is expensive, this means people will borrow money to buy arms. They will borrow that money from the Jews, at compound interest.

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Admin Jerry @admin.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/12/2025

#FediBlock mgtowlemmy.org "... an anti-feminist, misogynistic, mostly online community ..." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men_Going_The…

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Men Going Their Own Way - Wikipedia

Admin Jerry @admin.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/12/2025

@iftas Thank you for this. I had 2 accounts that I just suspended.

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Admin Jerry @admin.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/12/2025

@iftas I'll watch for this pattern. Thanks.

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Admin Jerry @admin.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/12/2025

@iftas I try to keep on top of new accounts, but these accounts sit idle for a month, it seems, and suddenly start posting propaganda. It takes a while before I notice sometimes. I sincerely appreciate what you do, and a DM or email is absolutely fine for me. Whatever takes the least effort and […]

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Admin Jerry @admin.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/11/2025

I decided to keep my #pixelfed instance, gr8.pics, operational. I earlier announced I was closing it. Instead, on January 1st, I'll be shuttering my #Friendica instance because it's expensive and comes with a lot of performance issues that would require even more money to overcome. As […]

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Admin Jerry @admin.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/11/2025

I just build and deployed the latest #Phanpy version to phanpy.hear-me.social to the latest version. Phanpy is an alternative UI for federated applications like Mastodon, Pixelfed, and others. It is awesome. If you haven't tried it, you should. @cheeaun

phanpy.hear-me.social

Minimalistic opinionated Mastodon web client

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Admin Jerry @admin.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/11/2025

I did the 4.5 Mastodon update on my test instance tonight, in preparation for doing this server on Saturday. You all better have Node 20.19.5 installed and on by default, or it won't build properly, and the streaming service won't run. I hit this snag on my first try. #Mastodon #MastoAdmin

Admin Jerry @admin.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/10/2025

Due to lack of users and activity, and the cost to keep it running, I've decided that my #Pixelfed server, gr8.pics, will be shutting down on 1-Jan-2026.

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Admin Jerry @admin.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2025

I just upgraded #Phanpy, the fantastic alternative UI for many Fediverse applications, to the latest version. It's at phanpy.hear-me.social. If you haven't tried it, you should. @cheeaun

phanpy.hear-me.social

Minimalistic opinionated Mastodon web client

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Admin Jerry @admin.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2025

Known spam Fediverse servers connect.iftas.org/library/iftas-doc… #Spam #Spammers #Fediblock

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Admin Jerry @admin.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2025

@butterscotch @cheeaun Yes, and it's great with Pixelfed too!

Admin Jerry @admin.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2025

I just rebuilt and deployed the latest #Phanpy version on phanpy.hear-me.social Phanpy is an alternative UI for Mastodon and other Fediverse applications. It is awesome. You should try it if you haven't already. @cheeaun

phanpy.hear-me.social

Minimalistic opinionated Mastodon web client

Admin Jerry @admin.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2025

If anyone has been following any topics on gup.pe, be aware that they are gone. The registrar sold the domain before it could be renewed. It's not clear who is at fault. I will be blocking gup.pe to stop spending resources on retries and to protect this server from any future misuse of the […]

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Admin Jerry @admin.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2025

#FediBlock Another JimmyTruth account. This is all he does all day. Creates accounts and gets suspended. He must do this for enjoyment. @ J @ strangeminds.social @thibaultmol @danny

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Admin Jerry @admin.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2025

#FediBlock Here are 5 more Jimmy the Liar (who often goes by the name JimmyTruth), accounts opened in the past 24 hours now claiming to have been born in multiple cities at the same time. It seems he's taking a break from claiming to be God's personal servant. Unsure what he's up to this time […]

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Admin Jerry @admin.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2025

#FediBlock Another JimmyTruth just opened: @ Ramon @ social.cologne

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Admin Jerry @admin.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2025

#FediBlock Another JimmyTruth for those who keep count. I've suspended him here and also suspended some 50 of his remote accounts, just in the past 3 weeks. But he's been at it for a long time, apparently. So there must have been more than 50 suspended accounts in total. He's homophobic […]

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Admin Jerry @admin.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2025

Someone informed me that beginning around 3 days ago, when trying to upload a large image on hear-me.social (> 1 MB), they got a 403 (Forbidden) error. Posting the solution here in case other Admins see the same problem popping up. I'm on the Cloudflare Pro plan. This won't apply to the free […]

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Admin Jerry @admin.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2025

@PaulaToThePeople Hi, Someone on your server reported "J" on my server. "J" promised me he would not post homophobic assertions, and he broke the promise. Please inform the reporter that "J" is suspended. Jerry

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Admin Jerry @admin.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2025

I'm getting a number of reports from tweesecake.social that contain neither a comment nor any posts. I believe these are meant to harass me into blocking someone who has not broken any rules here.

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Admin Jerry @admin.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2025

I just received this #scam email targeting hear-me.social users, trying to get them to log in using a malicious link so their accounts can be stolen. I hope nobody would be fooled by this. I will never send an email asking anyone to sign into their accounts […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

Image of email I received asking me to log into hear-me.social via a malicious link hidden under a green "Verify Your Email" button.

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Admin Jerry @admin.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2025

Today, Meta's list of sites they've targeted for training their AI was leaked. We're on their list. I do everything possible to block AI bots. I use Cloudflare AI bot protection. I block what I can. I don't know if they actually get to read anything, but they […] [Original post on hear-me.social]

Small image from Meta's list of sites they target for AI scraping showing that files.hear-me.social is on their list

Admin Jerry @admin.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2025

I just rebuilt and deployed the latest Mastodon version, V4.4.3. It's a bug-fix release. More information is here: github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releas…

Release v4.4.3 · mastodon/mastodon

Upgrade overview This release contains upgrade notes that deviate from the norm: ℹ️ Requires assets recompilation For more information, view the complete release notes and scroll down to the upgrad...

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Admin Jerry @admin.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2025

#FediBlock Today the idiot opening all the Mastodon Verify scam accounts opened one here, which lasted 5 minutes. Let's compare notes. I went through the Cloudflare logs and the IP address that opened and used the account was 81.102.80.122 -- Virgin Media in England. The ASN is NTL which is […]

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Admin Jerry @admin.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2025

At 3:01 PM EDT we were chosen by the idiot opening the Mastodon Verify scam accounts. At 3:06 PM EDT they were suspended and all their data deleted. Incredible though, that I already got two reports in that 5-minute span. Great that people are on their toes and reporting quickly!

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