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@evan<\/a> OK, so the people who were surprised to see their posts being boosted \u2014 that likely happened because their instance was subscribed to one of these public relays?<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-09-05:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/social.coop\/users\/jsit\/statuses\/116828663923935315","object":{"id":"https:\/\/social.coop\/users\/jsit\/statuses\/116828663923935315","objectType":"note","content":"

@evan<\/a> OK, so the people who were surprised to see their posts being boosted \u2014 that likely happened because their instance was subscribed to one of these public relays?<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/notice\/12812338","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116828651751255701","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116828651751255701"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-06-28:objectType=thread:nonce=8ee5f9a150ee1987","notice_info":{"local_id":"12812338","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-06-28T16:34:07+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/notice\/12812338"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan","displayName":"Evan Prodromou \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\uddf7\ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf8","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-original-tmp20260823235153.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-96-20260823235238.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-48-20260823235234.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-24-20260823235238.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"77066"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-96-20260823235238.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"He\/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca.Research Director, Social Web Foundation.Author of "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web" from O'Reilly Media.Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai.Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social.Former co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of Activity Streams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus.Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech.Greek, Arab, Palestinian, American, Canadian, Montr\u00e9alais.","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"evan","displayName":"Evan Prodromou \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\uddf7\ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf8","note":"He\/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca.Research Director, Social Web Foundation.Author of "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web" from O'Reilly Media.Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai.Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social.Former co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of Activity Streams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus.Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech.Greek, Arab, Palestinian, American, Canadian, Montr\u00e9alais."}},"content":"

@jsit<\/a> yes<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-09-05:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116828693396273624","object":{"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116828693396273624","objectType":"note","content":"

@jsit<\/a> yes<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116828693396273624","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/social.coop\/users\/jsit\/statuses\/116828663923935315","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/notice\/12812338"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/social.coop\/users\/jsit"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-06-28:objectType=thread:nonce=8ee5f9a150ee1987","notice_info":{"local_id":"12812339","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-06-28T16:34:06+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116828693396273624"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/social.coop\/users\/jsit","displayName":"Jay \ud83c\udd98","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/27290-original-tmp20230114052834.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/27290-96-20230309183235.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/27290-48-20230309183235.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/27290-24-20230309183235.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"27290"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/27290-96-20230309183235.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"Art-house goonDeveloper, designer, writer, and @wmbr DJ living in Cambridge, Massachusetts.Ex-@tinymixtapes\u00b7 webdev \u00b7 vim \u00b7 movies \u00b7 music \u00b7 uspol \u00b7 design \u00b7 typography \u00b7 wordpress \u00b7","url":"https:\/\/social.coop\/@jsit","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"jsit","displayName":"Jay \ud83c\udd98","note":"Art-house goonDeveloper, designer, writer, and @wmbr DJ living in Cambridge, Massachusetts.Ex-@tinymixtapes\u00b7 webdev \u00b7 vim \u00b7 movies \u00b7 music \u00b7 uspol \u00b7 design \u00b7 typography \u00b7 wordpress \u00b7"}},"content":"

@evan<\/a> Thanks. I think this is all important nuance that\u2019s being lost. It seems like most people think this was a blind scraper.<\/p>

At worst, the tags.pub documentation did not make clear enough that posts it saw \u2014 posts it was *specifically given permission to use* by instance admins or users \u2014 would be sent to relays, or which relays those were.<\/p>

(That is, if I\u2019m still understanding all this correctly, which I may not be.)<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-09-05:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/social.coop\/users\/jsit\/statuses\/116828354145074622","object":{"id":"https:\/\/social.coop\/users\/jsit\/statuses\/116828354145074622","objectType":"note","content":"

@evan<\/a> Thanks. I think this is all important nuance that\u2019s being lost. It seems like most people think this was a blind scraper.<\/p>

At worst, the tags.pub documentation did not make clear enough that posts it saw \u2014 posts it was *specifically given permission to use* by instance admins or users \u2014 would be sent to relays, or which relays those were.<\/p>

(That is, if I\u2019m still understanding all this correctly, which I may not be.)<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/notice\/12812316","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116828328633097716","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116828328633097716"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-06-28:objectType=thread:nonce=8ee5f9a150ee1987","notice_info":{"local_id":"12812316","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-06-28T16:22:51+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/notice\/12812316"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan","displayName":"Evan Prodromou \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\uddf7\ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf8","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-original-tmp20260823235153.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-96-20260823235238.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-48-20260823235234.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-24-20260823235238.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"77066"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-96-20260823235238.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"He\/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca.Research Director, Social Web Foundation.Author of "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web" from O'Reilly Media.Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai.Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social.Former co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of Activity Streams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus.Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech.Greek, Arab, Palestinian, American, Canadian, Montr\u00e9alais.","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"evan","displayName":"Evan Prodromou \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\uddf7\ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf8","note":"He\/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca.Research Director, Social Web Foundation.Author of "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web" from O'Reilly Media.Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai.Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social.Former co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of Activity Streams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus.Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech.Greek, Arab, Palestinian, American, Canadian, Montr\u00e9alais."}},"content":"

@jsit<\/a> thanks. I think you have it upside-down: we were receiving content from open registration relays, and boosting it. People didn't like that, so we stopped.<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-09-05:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116828651751255701","object":{"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116828651751255701","objectType":"note","content":"

@jsit<\/a> thanks. I think you have it upside-down: we were receiving content from open registration relays, and boosting it. People didn't like that, so we stopped.<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116828651751255701","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/social.coop\/users\/jsit\/statuses\/116828354145074622","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/notice\/12812316"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/social.coop\/users\/jsit"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-06-28:objectType=thread:nonce=8ee5f9a150ee1987","notice_info":{"local_id":"12812317","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-06-28T16:22:50+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116828651751255701"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/social.coop\/users\/jsit","displayName":"Jay \ud83c\udd98","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/27290-original-tmp20230114052834.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/27290-96-20230309183235.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/27290-48-20230309183235.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/27290-24-20230309183235.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"27290"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/27290-96-20230309183235.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"Art-house goonDeveloper, designer, writer, and @wmbr DJ living in Cambridge, Massachusetts.Ex-@tinymixtapes\u00b7 webdev \u00b7 vim \u00b7 movies \u00b7 music \u00b7 uspol \u00b7 design \u00b7 typography \u00b7 wordpress \u00b7","url":"https:\/\/social.coop\/@jsit","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"jsit","displayName":"Jay \ud83c\udd98","note":"Art-house goonDeveloper, designer, writer, and @wmbr DJ living in Cambridge, Massachusetts.Ex-@tinymixtapes\u00b7 webdev \u00b7 vim \u00b7 movies \u00b7 music \u00b7 uspol \u00b7 design \u00b7 typography \u00b7 wordpress \u00b7"}},"content":"

@evan<\/a> OK so:<\/p>

1. Instance admin connects to tags.pub relay
2. Instance user posts a hashtag
3. tags.pub sees the post and boosts it
4. The boost is sent to other, potentially objectionable instances through the public relays<\/p>

Is that right?<\/p>

That still seems \u201copt-in,\u201d but through the actions of the instance admin rather than the user. *Somebody* related to the user\/instance did take *some action* that resulted in these posts being sent to the relays.<\/p>

tags.pub didn\u2019t proactively go out and start scraping these posts without having been told about them.<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-09-05:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/social.coop\/users\/jsit\/statuses\/116828315744781346","object":{"id":"https:\/\/social.coop\/users\/jsit\/statuses\/116828315744781346","objectType":"note","content":"

@evan<\/a> OK so:<\/p>

1. Instance admin connects to tags.pub relay
2. Instance user posts a hashtag
3. tags.pub sees the post and boosts it
4. The boost is sent to other, potentially objectionable instances through the public relays<\/p>

Is that right?<\/p>

That still seems \u201copt-in,\u201d but through the actions of the instance admin rather than the user. *Somebody* related to the user\/instance did take *some action* that resulted in these posts being sent to the relays.<\/p>

tags.pub didn\u2019t proactively go out and start scraping these posts without having been told about them.<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/notice\/12812127","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116828284765181014","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116828284765181014"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-06-28:objectType=thread:nonce=8ee5f9a150ee1987","notice_info":{"local_id":"12812127","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-06-28T15:01:03+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/notice\/12812127"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan","displayName":"Evan Prodromou \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\uddf7\ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf8","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-original-tmp20260823235153.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-96-20260823235238.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-48-20260823235234.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-24-20260823235238.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"77066"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-96-20260823235238.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"He\/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca.Research Director, Social Web Foundation.Author of "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web" from O'Reilly Media.Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai.Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social.Former co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of Activity Streams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus.Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech.Greek, Arab, Palestinian, American, Canadian, Montr\u00e9alais.","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"evan","displayName":"Evan Prodromou \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\uddf7\ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf8","note":"He\/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca.Research Director, Social Web Foundation.Author of "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web" from O'Reilly Media.Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai.Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social.Former co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of Activity Streams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus.Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech.Greek, Arab, Palestinian, American, Canadian, Montr\u00e9alais."}},"content":"

@jsit<\/a> that's correct. <\/p>

One important point: we use block-respecting boosts, so if someone on a server you blocked follows a tag that you posted with, your post won't be shared with them.<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-09-05:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116828328633097716","object":{"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116828328633097716","objectType":"note","content":"

@jsit<\/a> that's correct. <\/p>

One important point: we use block-respecting boosts, so if someone on a server you blocked follows a tag that you posted with, your post won't be shared with them.<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116828328633097716","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/social.coop\/users\/jsit\/statuses\/116828315744781346","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/notice\/12812127"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/social.coop\/users\/jsit"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-06-28:objectType=thread:nonce=8ee5f9a150ee1987","notice_info":{"local_id":"12812128","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-06-28T15:01:02+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116828328633097716"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/social.coop\/users\/jsit","displayName":"Jay \ud83c\udd98","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/27290-original-tmp20230114052834.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/27290-96-20230309183235.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/27290-48-20230309183235.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/27290-24-20230309183235.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"27290"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/27290-96-20230309183235.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"Art-house goonDeveloper, designer, writer, and @wmbr DJ living in Cambridge, Massachusetts.Ex-@tinymixtapes\u00b7 webdev \u00b7 vim \u00b7 movies \u00b7 music \u00b7 uspol \u00b7 design \u00b7 typography \u00b7 wordpress \u00b7","url":"https:\/\/social.coop\/@jsit","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"jsit","displayName":"Jay \ud83c\udd98","note":"Art-house goonDeveloper, designer, writer, and @wmbr DJ living in Cambridge, Massachusetts.Ex-@tinymixtapes\u00b7 webdev \u00b7 vim \u00b7 movies \u00b7 music \u00b7 uspol \u00b7 design \u00b7 typography \u00b7 wordpress \u00b7"}},"content":"

@evan<\/a> So the people who were surprised to see this \u2014 was their instance relaying with tags.pub? Or was their instance relaying with another relay that connected to tags.pub?<\/p>

How were their posts being boosted?<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-09-05:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/social.coop\/users\/jsit\/statuses\/116828276168675129","object":{"id":"https:\/\/social.coop\/users\/jsit\/statuses\/116828276168675129","objectType":"note","content":"

@evan<\/a> So the people who were surprised to see this \u2014 was their instance relaying with tags.pub? Or was their instance relaying with another relay that connected to tags.pub?<\/p>

How were their posts being boosted?<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/notice\/12812099","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116828250195493494","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116828250195493494"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-06-28:objectType=thread:nonce=8ee5f9a150ee1987","notice_info":{"local_id":"12812099","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-06-28T14:50:00+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/notice\/12812099"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan","displayName":"Evan Prodromou \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\uddf7\ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf8","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-original-tmp20260823235153.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-96-20260823235238.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-48-20260823235234.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-24-20260823235238.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"77066"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-96-20260823235238.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"He\/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca.Research Director, Social Web Foundation.Author of "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web" from O'Reilly Media.Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai.Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social.Former co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of Activity Streams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus.Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech.Greek, Arab, Palestinian, American, Canadian, Montr\u00e9alais.","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"evan","displayName":"Evan Prodromou \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\uddf7\ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf8","note":"He\/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca.Research Director, Social Web Foundation.Author of "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web" from O'Reilly Media.Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai.Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social.Former co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of Activity Streams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus.Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech.Greek, Arab, Palestinian, American, Canadian, Montr\u00e9alais."}},"content":"

@jsit<\/a> the open registration relays.<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-09-05:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116828284765181014","object":{"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116828284765181014","objectType":"note","content":"

@jsit<\/a> the open registration relays.<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116828284765181014","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/social.coop\/users\/jsit\/statuses\/116828276168675129","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/notice\/12812099"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/social.coop\/users\/jsit"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-06-28:objectType=thread:nonce=8ee5f9a150ee1987","notice_info":{"local_id":"12812100","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-06-28T14:49:58+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116828284765181014"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/social.coop\/users\/jsit","displayName":"Jay \ud83c\udd98","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/27290-original-tmp20230114052834.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/27290-96-20230309183235.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/27290-48-20230309183235.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/27290-24-20230309183235.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"27290"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/27290-96-20230309183235.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"Art-house goonDeveloper, designer, writer, and @wmbr DJ living in Cambridge, Massachusetts.Ex-@tinymixtapes\u00b7 webdev \u00b7 vim \u00b7 movies \u00b7 music \u00b7 uspol \u00b7 design \u00b7 typography \u00b7 wordpress \u00b7","url":"https:\/\/social.coop\/@jsit","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"jsit","displayName":"Jay \ud83c\udd98","note":"Art-house goonDeveloper, designer, writer, and @wmbr DJ living in Cambridge, Massachusetts.Ex-@tinymixtapes\u00b7 webdev \u00b7 vim \u00b7 movies \u00b7 music \u00b7 uspol \u00b7 design \u00b7 typography \u00b7 wordpress \u00b7"}},"content":"

@evan<\/a> How was tags.pub boosting posts from people who hadn\u2019t followed its follow back bot? Is relaying your instance with tags.pub equivalent to having all your users follow the follow back bot?<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-09-05:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/social.coop\/users\/jsit\/statuses\/116828214234614407","object":{"id":"https:\/\/social.coop\/users\/jsit\/statuses\/116828214234614407","objectType":"note","content":"

@evan<\/a> How was tags.pub boosting posts from people who hadn\u2019t followed its follow back bot? Is relaying your instance with tags.pub equivalent to having all your users follow the follow back bot?<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/notice\/12812085","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116828197717577810","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116828197717577810"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-06-28:objectType=thread:nonce=8ee5f9a150ee1987","notice_info":{"local_id":"12812085","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-06-28T14:41:28+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/notice\/12812085"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan","displayName":"Evan Prodromou \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\uddf7\ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf8","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-original-tmp20260823235153.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-96-20260823235238.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-48-20260823235234.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-24-20260823235238.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"77066"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-96-20260823235238.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"He\/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca.Research Director, Social Web Foundation.Author of "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web" from O'Reilly Media.Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai.Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social.Former co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of Activity Streams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus.Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech.Greek, Arab, Palestinian, American, Canadian, Montr\u00e9alais.","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"evan","displayName":"Evan Prodromou \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\uddf7\ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf8","note":"He\/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca.Research Director, Social Web Foundation.Author of "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web" from O'Reilly Media.Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai.Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social.Former co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of Activity Streams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus.Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech.Greek, Arab, Palestinian, American, Canadian, Montr\u00e9alais."}},"content":"

@jsit<\/a> yes.<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-09-05:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116828250195493494","object":{"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116828250195493494","objectType":"note","content":"

@jsit<\/a> yes.<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116828250195493494","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/social.coop\/users\/jsit\/statuses\/116828214234614407","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/notice\/12812085"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/social.coop\/users\/jsit"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-06-28:objectType=thread:nonce=8ee5f9a150ee1987","notice_info":{"local_id":"12812086","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-06-28T14:41:26+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116828250195493494"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan","displayName":"Evan Prodromou \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\uddf7\ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf8","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-original-tmp20260823235153.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-96-20260823235238.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-48-20260823235234.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-24-20260823235238.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"77066"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-96-20260823235238.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"He\/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca.Research Director, Social Web Foundation.Author of "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web" from O'Reilly Media.Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai.Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social.Former co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of Activity Streams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus.Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech.Greek, Arab, Palestinian, American, Canadian, Montr\u00e9alais.","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"evan","displayName":"Evan Prodromou \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\uddf7\ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf8","note":"He\/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca.Research Director, Social Web Foundation.Author of "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web" from O'Reilly Media.Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai.Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social.Former co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of Activity Streams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus.Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech.Greek, Arab, Palestinian, American, Canadian, Montr\u00e9alais."}},"content":"

@jsit<\/a> I don't want to surprise people and I don't want to distribute content outside of people's comfort zone. tags.pub still has the ability to subscribe to another relay, but I probably won't use it unless I talk it through with the relay operator first.<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-09-05:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116828248701595429","object":{"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116828248701595429","objectType":"note","content":"

@jsit<\/a> I don't want to surprise people and I don't want to distribute content outside of people's comfort zone. tags.pub still has the ability to subscribe to another relay, but I probably won't use it unless I talk it through with the relay operator first.<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/notice\/12812083","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116828197717577810","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116828197717577810"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/social.coop\/users\/jsit"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-06-28:objectType=thread:nonce=8ee5f9a150ee1987","notice_info":{"local_id":"12812083","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-06-28T14:40:24+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/notice\/12812083"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/social.coop\/users\/jsit","displayName":"Jay \ud83c\udd98","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/27290-original-tmp20230114052834.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/27290-96-20230309183235.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/27290-48-20230309183235.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/27290-24-20230309183235.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"27290"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/27290-96-20230309183235.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"Art-house goonDeveloper, designer, writer, and @wmbr DJ living in Cambridge, Massachusetts.Ex-@tinymixtapes\u00b7 webdev \u00b7 vim \u00b7 movies \u00b7 music \u00b7 uspol \u00b7 design \u00b7 typography \u00b7 wordpress \u00b7","url":"https:\/\/social.coop\/@jsit","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"jsit","displayName":"Jay \ud83c\udd98","note":"Art-house goonDeveloper, designer, writer, and @wmbr DJ living in Cambridge, Massachusetts.Ex-@tinymixtapes\u00b7 webdev \u00b7 vim \u00b7 movies \u00b7 music \u00b7 uspol \u00b7 design \u00b7 typography \u00b7 wordpress \u00b7"}},"content":"

@evan<\/a><\/p>

> tags.pub is now unsubscribed from the open registration relay servers it was previously using.<\/p>

Hm I\u2019m confused about this. What were these relay servers specifically and why was tags.pub using them? And how did this result in posts being visible in ways that surprised users?<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-09-05:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/social.coop\/users\/jsit\/statuses\/116827864411386695","object":{"id":"https:\/\/social.coop\/users\/jsit\/statuses\/116827864411386695","objectType":"note","content":"

@evan<\/a><\/p>

> tags.pub is now unsubscribed from the open registration relay servers it was previously using.<\/p>

Hm I\u2019m confused about this. What were these relay servers specifically and why was tags.pub using them? And how did this result in posts being visible in ways that surprised users?<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/notice\/12812043","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116827085516749030","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116827085516749030"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-06-28:objectType=thread:nonce=8ee5f9a150ee1987","notice_info":{"local_id":"12812043","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-06-28T14:27:51+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/notice\/12812043"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan","displayName":"Evan Prodromou \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\uddf7\ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf8","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-original-tmp20260823235153.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-96-20260823235238.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-48-20260823235234.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-24-20260823235238.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"77066"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-96-20260823235238.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"He\/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca.Research Director, Social Web Foundation.Author of "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web" from O'Reilly Media.Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai.Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social.Former co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of Activity Streams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus.Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech.Greek, Arab, Palestinian, American, Canadian, Montr\u00e9alais.","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"evan","displayName":"Evan Prodromou \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\uddf7\ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf8","note":"He\/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca.Research Director, Social Web Foundation.Author of "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web" from O'Reilly Media.Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai.Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social.Former co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of Activity Streams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus.Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech.Greek, Arab, Palestinian, American, Canadian, Montr\u00e9alais."}},"content":"

@jsit<\/a> relay.an.exchange and relay.uggs.io<\/p>

The premise was that people who used open-registration relay servers wanted their content distributed widely (the relay part) and did not control which servers it went to (the open registration part).<\/p>

That didn't match with people's expectations. In particular, unlike other relays, tags.pub gives notifications and lets people opt out. So, people who didn't even know their content was being shared to a relay suddenly did.<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-09-05:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116828197717577810","object":{"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116828197717577810","objectType":"note","content":"

@jsit<\/a> relay.an.exchange and relay.uggs.io<\/p>

The premise was that people who used open-registration relay servers wanted their content distributed widely (the relay part) and did not control which servers it went to (the open registration part).<\/p>

That didn't match with people's expectations. In particular, unlike other relays, tags.pub gives notifications and lets people opt out. So, people who didn't even know their content was being shared to a relay suddenly did.<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116828197717577810","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/social.coop\/users\/jsit\/statuses\/116827864411386695","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/notice\/12812043"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/social.coop\/users\/jsit"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-06-28:objectType=thread:nonce=8ee5f9a150ee1987","notice_info":{"local_id":"12812044","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-06-28T14:27:50+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116828197717577810"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan","displayName":"Evan Prodromou \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\uddf7\ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf8","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-original-tmp20260823235153.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-96-20260823235238.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-48-20260823235234.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-24-20260823235238.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"77066"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/77066-96-20260823235238.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"He\/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca.Research Director, Social Web Foundation.Author of "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web" from O'Reilly Media.Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai.Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social.Former co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of Activity Streams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus.Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech.Greek, Arab, Palestinian, American, Canadian, Montr\u00e9alais.","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"evan","displayName":"Evan Prodromou \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\uddf7\ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf8","note":"He\/him. Board member at CoSocial.ca.Research Director, Social Web Foundation.Author of "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web" from O'Reilly Media.Founder of Wikitravel, StatusNet, identi.ca, Fuzzy.ai.Creator of pump.io. Co-creator of GNU social.Former co-chair of the Social Web Working Group at W3C. Co-author of Activity Streams 2.0. Co-author of ActivityPub. Co-author of OStatus.Grad student in CS at Georgia Tech.Greek, Arab, Palestinian, American, Canadian, Montr\u00e9alais."}},"content":"

@clayote<\/a> @jsit<\/a> Yeah, enough people are concerned about this that I unsubscribed tags.pub from the open registration relays it used:<\/p>

https:\/\/socialwebfoundation.org\/2026\/06\/28\/unsubscribing-tags-pub-from-open-registration-relays\/<\/a><\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-09-05:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116827085516749030","object":{"id":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/users\/evan\/statuses\/116827085516749030","objectType":"note","content":"

@clayote<\/a> @jsit<\/a> Yeah, enough people are concerned about this that I unsubscribed tags.pub from the open registration relays it used:<\/p>

https:\/\/socialwebfoundation.org\/2026\/06\/28\/unsubscribing-tags-pub-from-open-registration-relays\/<\/a><\/p>","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116827085516749030","status_net":{"notice_id":null}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/social.coop\/users\/jsit"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/peoplemaking.games\/users\/clayote"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-06-28:objectType=thread:nonce=8ee5f9a150ee1987","notice_info":{"local_id":"12811263","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2026-06-28T09:44:31+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/cosocial.ca\/@evan\/116827085516749030"}],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/conversation\/6510187","rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html"}]}