@splitshockvirus Just, as a reminder, the FBI has outright told me they're already monitoring the fediverse with their own tooling.
People over here breaking connectivity and making the network impossible for normal end-users to navigate, for the illusion of hiding public posts from the FBI, is just as frustrating as the piltiverse doing it
> the FBI has outright told me they're already monitoring the fediverse with their own tooling.
I'm not sure that's the case, given the boardreader stuff, and given that they should have knocked over some of the CP-friendly instances by now. It should be assumed that they are, but as far as guessing which is most likely, I don't know.
It's a bad idea because it's a big fuck you to basically anyone new who wants to host on competatively priced hardware and not have to beg for donos to do so. And then you get to tell them "Sorry your instance is working fine you are just on an ip blocklist. Maybe redeploy your instance frantech next time kid."
This mentality should not exist and is unmaintable if you actually think it's going to prevent feds from scraping your shit.
There are people in this thread that do this. I don't think it's a good idea, but people do it. I think attempting to block Hetzner is going to be more trouble than it's worth.
One fed instance shows up and now you start implementing whitelisting at a firewall level. That's really funny because if you implement that you would be one uping mastodon fediblocking. What's next blocking ToR IP, GeoIP block?
Never thought I'd see the day the Pleroma Shitnexus would lose their testicals over some dumb shit like this.
@p@Moon@admin@cereal@graf@istvan@john_rando@not_br549@parker@phnt@r000t@sjw@splitshockvirus@verita84 you aren't special you have no actually distinguishing characteristics or I'd have heard of or seen you organically you're just doing it to seem unique go be uninteresting somewhere else, get off the internet or hell, go die somewhere I don't like what little evidence of your existence I have to see on a day to day basis
Pleroma federates Like activities. This is clever: if you are following someone, and they like something, then it federates to your instance. This means that, if you stay off relays, the timeline will be full of posts by people that you follow, and posts that they like or that they reply to or repost. That's cool. Then EmojiReact comes by and people scrawl red X's and those threads federate. That is, the pattern is that someone sees a thing they don't like, they click and then that thread federates. The timeline starts getting posts because they were disliked by people you are following, and not just posts that they dislike, but posts that they didn't even dislike to the extent that they'd reply. So, it's posts that people mildly dislike but not enough to actually type a reply. If anyone on your instance follows someone that habitually does this, then TWKN starts to suck.
Anyway, the volume of text makes it seem like a bigger deal than it is. I don't like them, I don't think they're well thought-out and their effect on the network is negative, but the end result is I just shiptoast about them on occasion. pleromatan01f389.jpe
> Literally not an issue unless you're trying to build an echo chamber.
Ridiculous overreaction. "It's bad to fill an instance's TWKN to fill up with bullshit that nobody on that server actually wants to see" is several miles from "Only approved messages on TWKN, comrade."
> Wouldn't that matter only for smaller instances or instances with specific topics though?
Not really. There are allegedly 1,107,765,841 posts on fedi right now. Nobody's database has all of those posts. Fedi has about 13m people, FSE has heard of about 4% of them. FSE's got 2,153 accounts, and even if you tried to get the broadest possible sample of any 2,153 people you could find, you'd find some subset of those 1.1b posts that nobody in that sample cared about. But you take 2,153 people, they'll be following some other number of people, they people they are following will be following more people, and one of those people likes something, it has a good chance of being relevant to at least one of the people here even if there is no overlap in interests. Because there tends to be an overlap in interests, though, even if a server is general, maybe some group of about 20 people have some overlap in this specific interest, so a post liked by someone that one of those people follows becomes relevant to 1% of the people here.
This is one of the problems with relays: it pushes a lot of shit that nobody on your server cares about, which is then buried under the infinite scrollbar never to be seen again, but with its effects felt in the bloated indexes.
> I don't know what TWKN looks like on FSE, but from my time on kiwifarms.cc 2 years ago I cannot imagine it being much useful.
That's because kf.cc had a large number of people that compulsively followed accounts in order to stalk or antagonize the people running those accounts. (I don't know what proportion; I have friends that were on that instance, but anyone can acknowledge were plenty of fuckers that were creepy, bellicose, or both.) The current flood of minds.com bullshit aside, FSE's TWKN tends to be more relevant.
Wouldn't that matter only for smaller instances or instances with specific topics though? I don't know what TWKN looks like on FSE, but from my time on kiwifarms.cc 2 years ago I cannot imagine it being much useful. The sheer amount of posts followers liked/reacted made it an absolute shitshow.