@Damaged
I’m sorry I might have miscommunicated, and might have misunderstood what you were referring to in your first post. After looking through your reports some of those don’t point to hijacked sites or malware.
If you find a source url that points to a hijack or malware site, please do report those. But if the source is just dead, then adding “Dead Source” as a tag is fine.
We have been seeing hijacked Tumblr URLs, but really not that many. And the hijacks that I’ve worked on don’t seem to have anything to do with whether the URL is dead or an active ongoing blog.
So, I agree these dead links are a concern, but I don’t think every dead source is a potential hijack, any more than any of the “live sources” are.
And, it would be good to not delete all those old URLs without having a valid new source, because they’re handing as a part of our internal processes, even if they’re dead. For example, I have used them to sort out disputes about who the original artist was, or if something goes wrong with aliasing and I need to sort out one artist tag into two tags.
So, for myself, I think it’s better to just report the source URLs that point to hijacks or malware, and I’ll keep make updating all the verified links from the diaspora a front-burner project, instead of a back-burner.
I’ll take care of those reports so that you aren’t jammed up against the max report thing, and thank you for letting us know about the mess with the MagaLuna URLs. I’ll start zapping those.