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Il Fatto Quotidiano: Attacchi russi su Kiev, colpito quartiere residenziale: un morto e decine di feriti. Zelensky: “Usati 650 droni e 56 missili” Una tregua di tre giorni, poi l’uscita di Putin sul conflitto che “volge al termine“. Ma i fatti della notte dicono altro: Mosca ha avviato un massiccio attacco su Kiev, con droni e missili balistici che hanno colpito anche un quartiere residenziale. L’aeronautica militare ucraina ha diramato un allarme aereo a livello nazionale per la presenza di bombardieri Mig-31, mentre le esplosioni risuonavano nella capitale e i sistemi di difesa sono entrati in funzione per abbattere i droni russi. All’alba, secondo le autorità ucraine, ci sono una persona morta e decine di feriti, almeno 31. Il presidente Volodymyr Zelensky ha parlato di 650 droni e 56 missili nei raid notturni, e ha aggiunto che a Kiev sono in corso le operazioni di soccorso. Poi l’invito ai partner: “Non restate in silenzio”. Per quanto riguarda l’intero Paese, invece, “la Russia ha usato più di 1.560 droni contro le nostre città e comunità dalla mezzanotte di ieri. Queste non sono per nulla azioni di chi crede la guerra stia finendo”. I danni a Kiev riguardano “20 zone della città”, normali palazzi, una scuola, una clinica veterinaria e altre infrastrutture semplicemente civili”. Zelensky ha segnalato danni nella regione di Kiev e “attacchi terroristici” contro infrastrutture energetiche a Kremenchuk e nel porto e in zone residenziali di Chornomorsk. Anche le città di Kremenchuk, Bila Tserkva, Kharkiv, Sumy e Odessa sono state prese di mira. Nel distretto di Darnytsia a Kiev, un edificio residenziale a più piani è parzialmente crollato, seppellendo persone sotto le macerie. Almeno 27 persone sono state tratte in salvo, secondo il Servizio di Emergenza ucraino. Il sindaco di Kiev, Vitali Klitschko, ha dichiarato che 18 appartamenti sono stati distrutti. Ci sono anche problemi di approvvigionamento idrico sulla riva sinistra di Kiev. L'articolo Attacchi russi su Kiev, colpito quartiere residenziale: un morto e decine di feriti. Zelensky: “Usati 650 droni e 56 missili” proviene da Il Fatto Quotidiano. Russian attacks on Kyiv, residential area hit: one dead and dozens injured. Zelensky: “650 drones and 56 missiles were used.” A three-day truce, then Putin’s statement on the conflict, which is “coming to an end.” But the events of the night say otherwise: Moscow launched a massive attack on Kyiv, with drones and ballistic missiles hitting a residential district. The Ukrainian military’s aviation issued a nationwide air alarm due to the presence of Mig-31 bombers, while explosions echoed throughout the capital and defense systems activated to shoot down Russian drones. At dawn, according to Ukrainian authorities, one person was killed and dozens were injured, at least 31. President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke of 650 drones and 56 missiles in the nighttime raids, and added that rescue operations were underway in Kyiv. Then the call to partners: “Don’t remain silent.” Regarding the entire country, instead, “Russia has used more than 1,560 drones against our cities and communities since midnight yesterday. These are in no way the actions of those who believe the war is ending.” The damage in Kyiv affects “20 zones of the city,” normal buildings, a school, a veterinary clinic and other simply civilian infrastructure. Zelensky reported damage in the Kyiv region and “terrorist attacks” against energy infrastructure in Kremenchuk and in the port and residential areas of Chornomorsk. The cities of Kremenchuk, Bila Tserkva, Kharkiv, Sumy and Odessa were also targeted. In the Darnytsia district of Kyiv, a multi-story residential building collapsed partially, burying people under the rubble. At least 27 people were rescued, according to the Ukrainian Emergency Service. Kyiv’s mayor, Vitali Klitschko, said that 18 apartments were destroyed. There are also water supply problems on the left bank of Kyiv. The article Russian attacks on Kyiv, residential district hit: one dead and dozens injured. Zelensky: “650 drones and 56 missiles were used” comes from Il Fatto Quotidiano. #Russian #Zelensky #Putin #Moscow #Ukrainian #Mig-31 #VolodymyrZelensky #Russia #Kremenchuk #Chornomorsk #BilaTserkva #Kharkiv #Odessa #Darnytsia #VitaliKlitschko #IlFattoQuotidiano https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2026/05/14/attacco-russo-kiev-droni-missili-notizie/8385703/

LA NOTIZIA: Lo sgarbo di Meloni Marina Berlusconi si oppone alla riforma della legge elettorale che Meloni vorrebbe. Ma è possibile che FI rompa con Meloni? Agata Roidi via email Gentile lettrice, tutto è possibile in politica, se viene il momento giusto. Rifletto talvolta su un episodio che illustra appieno il cinismo di Meloni. Nel 2022, quando vinse le elezioni, Meloni non solo non offrì un ministero a Berlusconi che aspirava agli Esteri, ma neppure lo consultò per la scelta dei ministri. Nominò Tajani, formalmente capo di Forza Italia ma in realtà un “dipendente” del partito-azienda, senza neppure consultare il capo. Capisco che B. ministro avrebbe fatto ombra a Meloni e sarebbe stato difficilmente addomesticabile, ma lo sgarbo fu gigantesco, anche sul piano umano. Meloni aveva un debito enorme, perché B. l’aveva elevata a ministra quando era solo una ragazzotta che sgomitava nelle retrovie di An ed è con quella nomina che cominciò la parabola ascendente della garbatellara. Di B. si può dire tutto il male o il bene possibile, ma era stato premier per 11 anni, leader politico per 28 anni, aveva avuto rapporti con W. Bush, Putin, Obama, Merkel, Gheddafi, Netanyahu, Erdogan e tutto il cucuzzaro. Aveva esperienza e pensiero politico, pur opinabile, e aveva segnato la storia italiana per tre decenni. Non fu né umano né decente gettarlo via come un calzino bucato. Non sta certo a me difenderlo, ma comunque lo si guardi l’episodio fu vergognoso e dà l’esatta misura della statura politica e umana di Meloni. È dunque possibile che i figli di B., Marina e Pier Silvio, non abbiano dimenticato e un giorno le chiedano il conto. Non piangeremmo. L'articolo Lo sgarbo di Meloni sembra essere il primo su LA NOTIZIA. Meloni’s rudeness Marina Berlusconi opposes the electoral reform that Meloni wants. But is it possible that FI will break with Meloni? Agata Roidi via email Dear reader, everything is possible in politics if the right moment arrives. I sometimes reflect on an episode that fully illustrates Meloni’s cynicism. In 2022, when she won the elections, Meloni not only didn’t offer Berlusconi a ministry in Foreign Affairs, but she didn’t even consult him for the choice of ministers. She appointed Tajani, formally the head of Forza Italia but in reality a “company employee,” without even consulting the head. I understand that B. as minister would have overshadowed Meloni and would have been difficult to tame, but the disrespect was enormous, even on a human level. Meloni had a huge debt, because B. had elevated her to a minister when she was just a young girl sneaking around in the backwaters of An, and it was with that appointment that the rise of the Garbatellara began. One can say everything good or bad about B., but she had been prime minister for 11 years, a political leader for 28 years, had had relationships with W. Bush, Putin, Obama, Merkel, Gheddafi, Netanyahu, Erdogan and the whole lot. She had experience and political thought, albeit debatable, and had marked Italian history for three decades. It was neither human nor decent to throw her away like a holey sock. It’s certainly not up to me to defend her, but whatever way one looks at the episode it was shameful and gives the exact measure of Meloni’s political and human stature. It is therefore possible that B.’s children, Marina and Pier Silvio, have not forgotten and one day demand an explanation from her. We wouldn't cry. The article Meloni’s disrespect seems to be the first on LA NOTIZIA. #Meloni #MarinaBerlusconi #AgataRoidi #Berlusconi #ForeignAffairs #Tajani #ForzaItalia #Garbatellara #WBush #Putin #Obama #Gheddafi #Netanyahu #Erdogan #Italian #Marina #PierSilvio #first #LANOTIZIA https://www.lanotiziagiornale.it/lo-sgarbo-di-meloni/

Domani: L’Europa e l’Ucraina non si fidano di Putin: «Vuole solo ingannarci» Un coro di no alla proposta di affidare la mediazione all’ex cancelliere Schröder. Kallas: «Il Cremlino più debole, ma non ci sono ancora le condizioni per trattare» Europe and Ukraine do not trust Putin: “He only wants to deceive us.” A chorus of no to the proposal to entrust mediation to former Chancellor Schröder. Kallas: “The weakest Kremlin, but there are still no conditions to negotiate.” #Europe #Ukraine #Putin #Schröder #Kallas #Kremlin https://www.editorialedomani.it/politica/mondo/tregua-russia-ucraina-putin-europa-non-si-fida-uscjpoyf

Domani: Gli emissari Usa Witkoff e Kushner «presto a Mosca». Gelo di Berlino su Schroeder mediatore Russia-Ue Dopo la parata in sordina sulla Piazza Rossa per la ricorrenza della vittoria sul nazifascismo, Putin lancia la proposta dell’ex cancelliere per riaprire un dialogo con l’Ue. Ma il governo tedesco si mostra assai scettico. Secondo il consigliere presidenziale Ushakov sarebbe imminente una visita degli inviati speciali di Trump al Cremlino U.S. emissaries Witkoff and Kushner “heading to Moscow.” Berlin freezes Schroeder as Russia-EU mediator. Following the muted parade on Red Square for the anniversary of the victory over Nazism, Putin launches the former Chancellor’s proposal to reopen a dialogue with the EU. However, the German government is very skeptical. According to presidential advisor Ushakov, an imminent visit of Trump’s special envoys to the Kremlin is expected. #Witkoff #Kushner #Moscow #Berlin #Schroeder #Russia #RedSquare #Nazism #Putin #German #Ushakov #Trump #Kremlin https://www.editorialedomani.it/politica/europa/gli-emissari-usa-witkoff-e-kushner-presto-a-mosca-gelo-di-berlino-su-schroeder-mediatore-russia-ue-az968kux

🟢 Statement | 5/10 🇷🇺 Putin suggests war in Ukraine 'coming to an end' Putin suggested that Russia's war on Ukraine is 'coming to an end', without providing specific details or timelines. #OSINT #NewsGroup #Russia #Ukraine #Putin #Statement

Adnkronos - ultimoratop: Ucraina-Russia, una parata senza vittorie per Putin: svanisce l'immagine di uomo forte (Adnkronos) - Il presidente della Federazione russa deve rendere conto di un conflitto in corso dal febbraio 2022, più lungo di quello combattuto dai sovietici contro i nazisti tra il giugno 1941 e il maggio 1945 Ukraine-Russia, a parade without victories for Putin: the image of a strong man is fading. (Adnkronos) - The president of the Russian Federation must account for a conflict in progress since February 2022, longer than that fought by the Soviets against the Nazis between June 1941 and May 1945. #Ukraine #Putin #Soviets #Nazis https://www.adnkronos.com/internazionale/esteri/putin-russia-parata-9-maggio-guerra-ucraina_2eejLc82GGbmZoCNIrTDmY

EA-Times Radio VideoCast: #Ukraine Ruins #Putin Non-Victory Day (Scott Lucas with Philip Ingram) #Russia #UkraineWar https://eaworldview.com/2026/05/ukraine-ruins-putin-non-victory-day/

@iampytest1@infosec.exchange @potd@miniwa.moe #deepfakes of the day #dotd #trump #jdvance #putin #secretagent RE: https://mastodon.social/users/apilsetas/statuses/116525375891833245

🟢 SecurityThreat | 7/10 🇷🇺 Kremlin increases Putin's security amid coup fears The Kremlin has decided to strengthen the personal security of Russian President Vladimir Putin. The reason was a wave of assassinations of high-ranking Russian military figures, which caused serious concern in the administration. European intelligence services have recorded the implementation of new security measures around the Kremlin leader. According to intelligence, these steps are aimed at preventing a possible coup. The security reinforcement comes amid growing domestic political tension in Russia. #OSINT #NewsGroup #Russia #Putin #Coup #Security

Kaapatuttaako? "Myös pelko vallankaappauksesta ja kansannoususta on noussut Venäjällä poikkeuksellisen korkeaksi. Neljä vuotta kestäneen sodan taloudelliset vaikutukset alkavat nyt syödä myös varakkaan eliitin luottamusta..." #Venäjä #Putin #Ukraina https://www.kauppalehti.fi/uutiset/a/b22fd84a-11b4-4c76-8257-4a9e7e6f76f9

Repubblica.it: Trump lascia l’Europa: “Via oltre cinquemila soldati dalle basi in Germania” Il Pentagono: “La nostra postura cambia”. Preoccupazione alla Nato. Critiche dalle capitali Ue e dal Congresso: “Segnale sbagliato a Putin”. Il presidente Usa: “Ridurremo drasticamente il numero di militari” Trump leaves Europe: “Leaving more than five thousand soldiers from bases in Germany” The Pentagon: “Our posture is changing.” Concern at NATO. Criticism from EU capitals and Congress: “Wrong signal to Putin.” The U.S. president: “We will drastically reduce the number of military personnel.” #Europe #Germany #Pentagon #Congress #Putin https://www.repubblica.it/esteri/2026/05/03/news/trump_lascia_europa_via_cinquemila_soldati_basi_germania-425319739/

Domani: Trump ricatta l’Europa su tutto. La linea di Merz e Meloni è un flop L'annuncio del Pentagono sul rientro di 5mila soldati dalla Germania fa parte di un riassetto «prevedibile», come dice il governo tedesco. Eppure è impossibile non leggere in questa mossa l'ennesima pressione del tycoon sugli europei. Berlino e Roma hanno difeso fino a pochi giorni fa la linea morbida sui dazi, ma la condiscendenza non paga. E la mossa trumpiana di scoprire il fianco europeo è un favore anche a Putin Trump blackmails Europe on everything. The Merz and Meloni line is a flop. The Pentagon's announcement of the return of 5,000 soldiers from Germany is part of a “predictable” realignment, according to the German government. However, it’s impossible not to read into this move the latest pressure from the tycoon on Europeans. Berlin and Rome had defended the soft line on tariffs just a few days ago, but condescension doesn’t pay. And Trump’s move to expose the European flank is also a favor to Putin. #Europe #Meloni #Pentagon #Germany #German #Europeans #Berlin #Trump #European #Putin https://www.editorialedomani.it/politica/europa/Truppe-Germania-Meloni-reazione-dazi-tvjy7yxq

Agi: L'Oscar di Talankin perso e ritrovato in un volo Lufthansa AGI - Lufthansa ha perso l’Oscar del regista russo Pavel Talankin. Dopo che la sicurezza aeroportuale statunitense gli aveva impedito di portare a bordo la statuetta su un volo da New York, la compagnia aerea tedesca l’ha smarrita e l’ha ritrovata solo dopo una frenetica ricerca. Talankin, vincitore del premio per il suo documentario "Mr. Nobody Against Putin", si era visto impedire di portare il premio a bordo di un volo all’aeroporto JFK mercoledì scorso, riferisce il sito di notizie cinematografiche Deadline. Funzionari della Transportation Security Administration (Tsa) statunitense gli avevano detto di temere che potesse essere usata come arma e lo avevano costretto a imbarcarla nella stiva in una scatola di cartone. La scomparsa della statuetta Una volta atterrato in Germania, la statuetta dorata era sparita. Lufthansa ha espresso "rammarico" e ha dichiarato di aver avviato una ricerca interna "con la massima cura e urgenza" per recuperare l’Oscar. Il ritrovamento a Francoforte Ore dopo, la compagnia aerea ha rilasciato una nuova dichiarazione affermando che la statuetta era stata trovata ed era a Francoforte per essere restituita a Talankin "il prima possibile". Non ha spiegato come il premio sia scomparso, affermando che "è in corso un’indagine interna". Il profilo del regista Talankin, 35 anni, operatore video di una scuola di una piccola città russa, ha suscitato scalpore quando ha vinto l’Oscar per il miglior documentario insieme al regista statunitense David Borenstein. Il documentario premiato Realizzato con filmati che Talankin aveva fatto uscire clandestinamente dalla Russia, "Mr. Nobody Against Putin" racconta le lezioni patriottiche a favore della guerra introdotte nelle scuole russe sotto la presidenza di Vladimir Putin, nel contesto dell’offensiva di Mosca in Ucraina. Le dichiarazioni dopo l’atterraggio Talankin ha dichiarato a Deadline di aver viaggiato almeno una decina di volte con la statuetta senza alcun problema. "È assolutamente sconcertante come possano considerare un Oscar un’arma", ha dichiarato dopo l’atterraggio a Francoforte giovedì mattina, aggiungendo che sui voli precedenti "aveva viaggiato con la statuetta in cabina e non c’era mai stato alcun problema". La proposta respinta Un agente della Lufthansa si era offerto di accompagnare Talankin al gate e di custodire la statuetta durante il volo, ma la proposta è stata bocciata da un funzionario della Tsa. The Talankin Oscar was lost and found on a Lufthansa flight. Lufthansa lost the Russian director Pavel Talankin’s Oscar. After airport security in the United States prevented him from bringing the statuette on a flight from New York, the German airline lost it and only found it after a frantic search. Talankin, winner of the award for his documentary “Mr. Nobody Against Putin,” was prevented from bringing the prize aboard a flight at JFK airport last Wednesday, according to the film news website Deadline. Officials from the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) told him they feared it could be used as a weapon and forced him to board it in the cargo hold in a cardboard box. The disappearance of the statuette Once landed in Germany, the golden statuette was missing. Lufthansa expressed “regret” and stated that it had launched an internal search “with the utmost care and urgency” to recover the Oscar. The finding in Frankfurt Hours later, the airline issued a new statement saying that the statuette had been found and was in Frankfurt to be returned to Talankin “as soon as possible.” It did not explain how the prize disappeared, stating that “an internal investigation is underway.” The director’s profile Talankin, 35, a video operator from a small Russian town, caused a stir when he won the Oscar for best documentary together with American director David Borenstein. The winning documentary Made with footage that Talankin had secretly taken out of Russia, “Mr. Nobody Against Putin” tells of patriotic lessons in favor of war introduced into Russian schools under the presidency of Vladimir Putin, in the context of Moscow’s offensive in Ukraine. Statements after landing Talankin told Deadline that he had traveled at least a dozen times with the statuette without any problems. “It’s absolutely astonishing how they can consider an Oscar a weapon,” he said after landing in Frankfurt on Thursday morning, adding that on previous flights “he had traveled with the statuette in the cabin and there had never been a problem.” The rejected proposal A Lufthansa agent offered to accompany Talankin to the gate and guard the statuette during the flight, but the proposal was rejected by a TSA official. #Lufthansa #Russian #PavelTalankin #Oscar #theUnitedStates #NewYork #German #Nobody #Putin #Germany #Frankfurt #Talankin #American #DavidBorenstein #Russia #VladimirPutin #Moscow #Ukraine https://www.agi.it/estero/news/2026-05-01/oscar-talankin-lufthansa-36848690/

Trotz der täglichen Grausamkeiten, die uns von der Regierung #Merz vorgelegt werden, bin ich gegen vorgezogene Neuwahlen. Denn wenn die nächste #Bundestagswahl wie geplant im Jahr 2029 stattfindet, dürfte folgendes eingetreten sein: #Trump ist nicht mehr im Amt #Putin hat den Krieg gegen #Ukraine verloren Damit fallen schon mal die zwei größten Förderer/Vorbilder der #AfD weg. Klar, es gibt zwar noch immer jede Menge Milliardäre, die der AfD und anderen faschistischen Parteien Geld in den Arsch blasen werden, aber das sollte trotzdem einen größeren Unterschied machen. Ich hoffe dann, daß bis dahin die #Grünen und die #Linke soweit gewachsen sind, daß sie die #SPD als Juniorpartner mit in eine Koalition holen können. https://www.wahlrecht.de/umfragen/

Der furchtbare Untergang des Fossilismus zeigt sich gerade auch am Brennen der Raffinerie & Stadt Tuapse in Südrussland (nahe Sotschi, übrigens). 👇🔥 Putin & Trump haben den Niedergang beschleunigt, da zunehmend Drohnen fossile Strukturen zerstören. 🪖 "Die Stadt Tuapse gibt es nicht mehr. Sie ist zerstört. Der Boden ist vergiftet, das Wasser ist vergiftet, die Luft ist vergiftet." Entsetzen spricht aus den Worten des russischen Bloggers Pawel Kuchmirow. "In diesem Moment fällt dort schwarzer Regen, wie in Hiroshima. (...) Er tötet Pflanzen, Insekten, Vögel." In der Nacht zum 20. April ist nach einem Angriff ukrainischer Drohnen auf die Ölterminals im Hafen der Stadt ein gewaltiger Brand ausgebrochen. Seitdem herrscht in Russlands Süden Ausnahmezustand. Seit fünf Tagen gehen "ölhaltige Regenfälle" auf Tuapse und die angrenzenden Gebiete nieder." #Fossilismus #Krieg #Ukraine #Drohnen #Gewaltenergien #Tuapse #Sotschi #Russland #Putin #Trump #Ukraine #Irankrieg #Golfkrieg #Inferno https://www.t-online.de/nachrichten/panorama/gesellschaft/id_101228826/inferno-in-russland-oel-vergiftet-ganze-stadt-und-wladimir-putin-schweigt.html

Lotta fluoride moving through the glowieverse. Welcome to Friday Hell. Hold onto your while I poke the global surveillance bear.

TL;DR: INDEPENDENT FEDERATED TRUST AND SAFETY (but first I talk about mirroring for a couple of paragraphs)

A lot of the URLs can be mirrored to your instance locally and read/replied to/reposted on your instance without making you look at the glowie servers. Paste the URLs into the search bar, they’ll show up on your instance. This should probably be easier in most FEs.⁰

You know what’s better than archive.today links? Mirroring the shit onto a few dozen fedi instances. You put, e.g., https://wedistribute.org/2025/02/iftas-funding-crisis/ into the search bar, it is mirrored to your instance. If you reply to it or repost it (or you are on Pleroma and you smash dat like), it is mirrored to instances where someone follows you.

IFTAS is making another push for centralizing fedi. IFTAS is a surveillance/steering organization that has enough overlap with Newsmast, the Social Web Foundation, Oliphant, FediMod, indieweb.social, hachyderm.io, that they are effectively the same organization. (Sockpuppets are bad when you’re LITERALLY HARASSING JOURNALISTS but it is fine to use orgs as sockpuppets. These people spin up 501(c)(3)s faster than most of us spin up domains. The orgs are, not coincidentally, all based in .us/.de/.uk/.ca.) Here’s who they are: https://about.iftas.org/advisory/ .

The organizations get government/corporate funding through organizations like nlnet or the Social Web Foudnation ( https://socialwebfoundation.org/2025/03/27/defederation-on-the-fediverse/ ) or the Ford Foundation through the DIIF. They use this sort of thing as a mechanism to pay themselves, so Newsmast “buys” indieweb.social from Tim Chambers ( https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/03/27/the-next-stage-for-indiewebsocial.html ), who was a member of IFTAS ( https://about.iftas.org/2024/07/12/tim-chambers-joins-the-iftas-advisory-board/ , “Tim has been at the forefront of pioneering strategies that leverage technology to promote social good and a healthier social web. [⋯] Tim’s deep understanding of the disinformation landscape further strengthens his value to the IFTAS Advisory Board.” ). The Executive Director of IFTAS is employed by Newsmast and it should probably be really fuckin’ easy to call this a conflict of interest. I don’t know how much money they move like this: my concern is not with hustlers using tax dollars and “charitable” contributions to get paid for forcing their politics, you know, I don’t like it but my main concern right now is that they are trying to kill fedi.

IFTAS has recently been hand-wringing about the ratio of jannies to humans going and pushing the coop model. They’ve also been very interested in regulation, trotting out the “Oh, it’s not the ‘wild west’ any more! You can’t just write whatever you want on the internet!” See attached, and see the IFTAS founder’s push: https://jaz.co.uk/2026/03/13/there-are-a-million-fediverses-and-theyre-all-regulated/ . Jaz-Michael King, head of IFTAS, incidentally, lists Newsmast as his employer. They are creating a fake problem to force their solution. This is part of the (also attached) broader strategy from the .us/.de/.uk/.ca governments to stamp out “misinformation” on fedi: the .de government refers to fedi as “The Hydra on the Web” and expresses frustration that they can’t use NetzDG as a pretext to take down random Peertube instances. (They did indeed say the quiet part out loud and it’s in the PDF.)

IFTAS’s “CSAM detector” (attachment scanner) “ran out of funding” right when the USAID faucet ran dry. ( https://wedistribute.org/2025/02/iftas-funding-crisis/ ) Before they did, they grabbed about 1.86M files from fedi: https://about.iftas.org/2025/03/27/content-classification-system-post-mortem/ . (In addition to things like requiring access to a server admin account for “CARIAD”, https://cariad.fedicheck.iftas.org/ , a closed-source tool to show you something that fba.ryona.agency / fed.dembased.xyz will already show you, for free, with source, and without requiring you to give them access to read an admin account. Anyone wanna spend a minute spinning up a new instance and checking to see what requests they make exactly?) It’s one thing for them to say “Oh, you’re unsafe, you said a hate speech” but it’s another entirely for them to say “You don’t use the CSAM protection!” (I don’t know about other admins, but speaking of USAID, very few pedos have been visible from here since that dried up. Either they finally, with extremely coincidental timing, realized that I put heads on pikes, or maybe there was not a coincidence.) This is gonna be the wedge. It’s easy to say “I don’t stop people from discussing their opinions, even if you don’t like their opinions”, but nobody on the network actually wants to host anyone’s CP bin.

Oliphant’s blocklist is dead now. “Note: As of April 15, 2026, the Oliphant Unified Tier 0 Blocklist has been retired. There are numerous instructions on this page to create your own, but we’re moving to a more FIRES-centric model, and I want to support that going forward. Rather than combining various blocklists here, I’d prefer to forward FIRES datasets as a better alternative to sharing moderation advisories, as it is a living protocol.” https://writer.oliphant.social/oliphant/the-oliphant-social-blocklist . FIRES is a spinoff of the new Fedimod shit out of Germany because YSHL. It is done by IFTAS member Emilia Smith ( @thisismissem@hachyderm.io , https://github.com/thisismissem ), or at least she’s running the Github org. It is worth noting who was on the Oliphant blocklist at “tier 0” from the beginning. (Say what you want about Seirdy but he’s at least transparent about his notes.) FSE is always top of all of these goddamn lists, before they got arround to adding Pieville or Gab or whatever explicitly angry racist instances: why is that? (Well, why the fuck do you think?)

So IFTAS builds these things, then conducts these polls: “Which do you want, this, this, or this?” All of the options are, of course, things they want to push; for example, “What if you had automated threat-sharing? What if you had an automated blocklist?” They give you four choices and all of the options are things they want to push, in some cases things they have already developed. When their 2026 needs assessment survey comes around, I suggest you take it. (There’s probably some funding requirement that demands that they do a survey, so they do one to show that it’s super important that they get funding; in either case, it’s also a classic “manufacturing consent” maneuver, it is old as shit.)

You may be familiar with Newsmast ( https://newsmastfoundation.org/about/ ). I had never heard of them until I wrote an MRF that automatically added #ukraine #russia #elonmusk #trump #uspol #putin #economy #antifa to every post on FSE; IDIFTL. ( https://git.freespeechextremist.com/gitweb/?p=fse;a=blob;f=lib/site/mrf/shut_yr_mouth_about_them_politics.ex;h=2d861996b79deb2a1df69f59fa2d18a0472ff966;hb=HEAD ) To my surprise, a series of bots started reposting everything on FSE. Even shit like @whereverbot@fsebugoutzone.org and @lainbot@fsebugoutzone.org. I also started getting scraped by backend.newsmast.org, which is looking for not just posts but tracking follower/following relationships. (Larger write-up https://fsebugoutzone.org/objects/377a61ff-78e8-47e8-a2b0-0ed60ac406da , https://media.freespeechextremist.com/rvl/full/88476363018fe449b766bf0979d40fe470c965459c631a1c4540561560d5b6a4?name=newsmast-glowies.png ). I wouldn’t be surprised if the fedi “OSINT” scraper tool (remember the one that was like, “IT EXPOSES WHO TALKS TO WHO” and people just used it for fun instead of being terrified?) from a couple of years back was a prototype for this.

There are a lot of instances that are socks used by the IFTAS crowd. For example, the eleven instances¹ that were part of the Fediverse Governance paper ( https://github.com/fediverse-governance/fediverse-governance.github.io ) or instances where they don’t even bother to change the links so their “About” page just links to Newsmast’s “About” page: https://fsebugoutzone.org/objects/e67f127d-f38a-4ef2-ac14-68eb8f8060e2 .

So I mention, like, “They aren’t really against centralization. I took the survey they gave last year and the questions ranged from ‘completely irrelevant’ to ‘insulting’; the main problem was that they were looking for a conclusion and the survey assumed the conclusion. That is, the survey existed to validate the thing they wanted to push. It was stuff like ‘Do you suffer mental health problems because of unmoderated content?’ and ‘Would an automated blocking system help you block better?’” https://fsebugoutzone.org/notice/B33GlKrNA7pYVrEnse .

Dots connected this week: the 2023 “Fediverse Governance” paper, IFTAS (Independent Federated Trust and Safety), Newsmast (the organization that is responsible for scraping fedi and also people’s following/follower lists to build a social map of fedi), . I can’t be the only one to have noticed these people are all the same group, but I have never heard anyone mention it: https://fsebugoutzone.org/notice/B5Ke039Y3bhptYDXpA . Jon Pincus, outspoken IFTAS tendril and member of the “Disinformation Defense League” (which wants a tax on targeted ad revenue to be earmarked for journos, I SHIT YOU NOT), has been bending cwebber’s ear; cwebber’s now on social.coop (which pulled in $20,000 per month last time I checked), one of the original eleven¹ instances that were part of the original fediverse governance paper (coauthored by Kissane ahead of the founding of IFTAS). A lot of these things that came out of nowhere, they were astroturfed by these people.

Here’s an example: why all the press about the “CSAM problem” on fedi, where did that come from? These people built a detector, they want to create demand for the detector, so they reach a few tendrils out.

hachyderm.io is another great example of the astroturfing. They show up out of nowhere, have a bunch of tech celebrities on there, then the admin starts making these impassioned declarations about how fedi “needs to do $x” or “won’t survive without $y”.

:glowingthedark: cosocial.ca was the topic of this thread where phnt (I should tag people that were involved but I also think, like, maybe they will get spammed) posted this:

https://fluffytail.org/objects/caa22ad6-309a-43ad-86b2-1bac2659e6c5

The sleezy kind of freedom haters. They are too afraid of backlash that play these dumb masquerading games to look like “the good guys trying to save this network”. Their goal is to just turn this place into another corporate Twatter place nobody asked for.

This is accurate. If you have noticed that these people get hostile and instance-block you if you ever question their premise (as happened in that thread when phnt asked some pretty obviously good-faith questions), this is because they are pushing an agenda. People interact with them and exclaim, “How annoying! He refused to explain what he meant, he instance-blocked me for asking why or questioning the approach!” They are trying to present “Choose the color of the bikeshed!” as a choice before you’ve agreed to let them build a house. The style of interaction is driven by the motives: you think you’re talking to a person, but you are talking to an agenda.

They are trying to push an agenda. The agenda is to kill fedi by turning it into a centrally controlled system, these are the mechanics.

There, that’s it, that’s my tinfoil screed. No action item. Please see my recent posts/reposts over the last four days for more information.

⁰ FediBBS, you type a comma, like you just do , $url, but very few things are “easy” on FediBBS. I think, like, this should probably be done in a similar way to the thing I suggested to feld where it’s just an object lookup and the frontend. Several of the repos mentioned here are mirrored to https://git.freespeechextremist.com/ now and I think revolver should probably include some kind of “import/mirror git repo” feature in v2, or anyway I have “git support” in there somewhere, so, like, while FediBBS can just do tarball upload, a server that can absorb git repos and let you clone from any node, that’d be cool; I did this with IPFS but IPFS is, as I have mentioned and you may have noticed, slow and terrible and shitty and unreliable and painful.

¹ The Individual Eleven:

https://cosocial.ca/ | https://fedilist.com/instance/cosocial.ca https://hcommons.social/ | https://fedilist.com/instance/hcommons.social https://hachyderm.io/ | https://fedilist.com/instance/hachyderm.io https://masto.donte.com.br/ | https://fedilist.com/instance/masto.donte.com.br https://mspsocial.net/ | https://fedilist.com/instance/mspsocial.net https://piaille.fr/ | https://fedilist.com/instance/piaille.fr https://sfba.social/ | https://fedilist.com/instance/sfba.social https://social.coop/ | https://fedilist.com/instance/social.coop https://tooting.ch/ | https://fedilist.com/instance/tooting.ch https://wandering.shop/ | https://fedilist.com/instance/wandering.shop https://woof.group/ | https://fedilist.com/instance/woof.group the_hydra_on_the_web–challenges_associated_with_extremist_use_of_the_fediverse.pdf Mapping-Fediverse-Communities-1.pdf fedimod.png glowie.png linkitylank.png spread_anarchy.jpg racialslurs.png hellallyourfamily.jpg fuckedupshit.jpg newsmast-glowies.png

Peter Schrank @schrankartoons on the defeat of #Orban #Putin #VictorOrban @thetimes – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com