Fediverse administrators and moderators have a few tools available that help them manage their servers’ domain blocks:
- publicly shared domain block lists, including Oliphant.Social Shared Blocklist Files, lists created by fediverse admin Seirdy, or the Bad Space project
- tools such as Fediseer and FediBlockHole that help keep them in sync
- the #FediBlock hashtag people use to share objectionable domains
And as of today, the Blocklist subscription is being considered for addition to Mastodon as per the official roadmap.
Here’s my own addition for folks who might prefer something a bit more simple and straightforward: a Python script that lets you export a trusted instance’s public domain block list and convert it to a CSV file that can be imported from your /admin/export_domain_blocks/new page.
I wrote a little Python script that downloads domain blocks from a specified Mastodon server and saves them as a CSV file that can be imported to your own server. In case this is something you need.
https://github.com/stefanbohacek/mastodon-domain-block-exporter-script
Question for #FediAdmins/#MastoAdmins, how do you go about managing your domain block lists?
Do you use any tools or shared domain block lists? Do you just follow the FediBlock hashtag and manage them manually?
Hope you’ll find this useful! And for those interested in this topic, here’s a few more links to explore:
- FediMod: moderation tools for the fediverse
- MastoAnswers: questions and answers for Mastodon admins
- IFTAS: Nonprofit trust and safety support for volunteer social web content moderators, community managers, administrators and more