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   ocdtrekkie (ocdtrekkie@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Sep-2023 04:04:21 JST ocdtrekkie

   • Rusty Corgi

   @Rusty My understanding is that it's a work in progress. (A lot of things are example content, the same for every server, or aren't present, like the "receipts".)

   But it's also logically inconsistent: mastodon.social is listed as a suspend for federating with mstdn.io, but mstdn.io is on probation and only a silence.

   It'd definitely be nice if it had a methodology posted, but I don't think defederating the domain would do anything, it's just a website.

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     novatorine 🏴🏳️‍⚧️ (anarchopunk_girl@kolektiva.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Sep-2023 04:04:17 JST novatorine 🏴🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Rusty Corgi

     @ocdtrekkie @Rusty according to Ro himself, the list is automatically generated. From what I've got there elsewhere what he does is just pull the block lists of eight trusted Authority instances and if three or more of those trusted authorities block any one instance that instance gets put on the list to be blocked.

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     ocdtrekkie (ocdtrekkie@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Sep-2023 04:04:18 JST ocdtrekkie

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     • Rusty Corgi

     @Rusty I have never heard the claim that it's AI-based before. Why do you suspect that's the case?

     (Also, I don't think I've ever heard of someone importing The Bad Space's list, so I imagine the impact is fairly low.)

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     Rusty Corgi (rusty@cubhub.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Sep-2023 04:04:21 JST Rusty Corgi

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     @ocdtrekkie Websites can implement API calls to Mastodon instances without being Mastodon themselves. Adding them to the domain blocks ensures they can't use the API endpoints to scrape data.

     I understand being a work in progress, but making a domain block list with zero checks in place is wholly irresponsible. Whatever underlying AI/logical infrastructure they have in place here is clearly contradicting itself and hurting a lot of smaller instances. The behavior of this blocklist really could make or break hundreds, if not thousands of users trying to be a part of the Fediverse. It's a flat-out irresponsible behavior.

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     novatorine 🏴🏳️‍⚧️ (anarchopunk_girl@kolektiva.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Sep-2023 05:21:58 JST novatorine 🏴🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Rusty Corgi

     @ocdtrekkie @Rusty it's explained much better, but I don't think that makes everything that happened better 😩

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     ocdtrekkie (ocdtrekkie@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Sep-2023 05:21:59 JST ocdtrekkie

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     • Rusty Corgi

     @anarchopunk_girl @Rusty Yeah I've learned a fair bit more in the past few days. It's explained *much* better in the tweaking.thebad.space version of the site.

     Also Ro appears to currently suspend .social, so I'm not sure how piecemeal the information I've tended to get is.