footprints_of_a_mastodon--how_decentralized_architecture_influences_online_social_relationships--zignani2019.pdf

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   pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 15:29:38 JST pistolero

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   @judgedread
   
   > The shocking revelation is that they really were astroturfing on our tiny backwaters.
   
   That wasn't a shocking revelation; I have been posting about this for years. For my part, I didn't need proof for what I could see with my own eyes on my own machine.
   
   Stand up an instance, open registrations, and then when weird shit happens in your logs, try to fix the problems. To fix the problems you've got to diagnose them, and when you do, you will find IP addresses out of government buildings, you will find pedophiles living in Ft. Meade, you will find massive scraping operations run by academic institutions.
   
   > There was so much funding to staff the project that they left no stone unturned.
   
   I keep posting these things and no one listens. It's not just the US, Germany also.
   
   Here are some relevant PDFs. There's a very thorough dissection of the Boardreader thing as well as other scrapers at https://blog.freespeechextremist.com/blog/fse-vs-fbi.html and several more dots to connect under the "Fedi Eats Itself" heading on the entry about Fedilist at https://blog.freespeechextremist.com/blog/about-fedilist.html#Fedi_Eats_Itself . I did that stupid stunt with cramming invisible political hashtags into FSE and a well-funded NGO (channel.org, which runs newsmast.social and was formed because of all that gosh-darned Evil Disinformation that Trump invented) suddenly started scraping followers/following lists on FSE.
   the_hydra_on_the_web--challenges_associated_with_extremist_use_of_the_fediverse.pdf
   sigmetrics22.pdf
   rethinking_the_social_in_social_media--zulli_et_al--2020.pdf
   footprints_of_a_mastodon--how_decentralized_architecture_influences_online_social_relationships--zignani2019.pdf
   20230724-fediverse-csam-report.pdf
   19391_network_analysis_of_information_consumption_in_masto.pdf
   decentralized_web_moderation.pdf
   3614419.3644013--polarization_in_dosn.pdf
   3584931.3606970--characterizing_formal_rules_on_popular_mastodon_instances.pdf
   SSRN-id4213674.pdf
   3614419.3644016_an_exploration_of_decentralized_moderation_on_mastodon.pdf
   10.1145@3292522.3326034--spread_of_hate_speech_on_gab.pdf
   NSF-Staff-Report-rtn--featuring_david_rand.pdf