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   Vincent Cloutier (vincent@r.town)'s status on Saturday, 28-Oct-2023 04:34:57 JST Vincent Cloutier

   I’m getting a few reports that some bird.makeup accounts have forwarded messages that don’t appear anymore on their Twitter page in the last day or so. I don’t have much to go on right now to investigate this, but have anyone seen suspicious posts?

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     Salastil (salastil@pleroma.salastil.com)'s status on Saturday, 28-Oct-2023 04:34:47 JST Salastil

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     You were offered guest_accounts to handle the scraping internally by Zedeus, what you’re doing is a dick move scraping public instances for the data. Furthermore you apparently prevent access to people from poa.st but feel its ok to scrape their Nitter instance for data.

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     Vincent Cloutier (vincent@r.town)'s status on Saturday, 28-Oct-2023 04:34:54 JST Vincent Cloutier

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     Multiple persons have confirmed this is happening to me. I have turned off all boosts from bird.makeup to mitigate this vulnerability.

     One of the upstream Nitter instance is injecting in profiles false boosts regarding the Palestine/Israel conflict.

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     Vincent Cloutier (vincent@r.town)'s status on Saturday, 28-Oct-2023 04:34:55 JST Vincent Cloutier

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     I haven’t seen anything personally on the hundreds of bird.makeup accounts that I follow, but keeping it accurate is very high on the priorities of this project. If it’s a vulnerability or a bug I want to fix it

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      (mint@ryona.agency)'s status on Saturday, 28-Oct-2023 07:06:50 JST 

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     • anime graf mays ?️?
     @graf @vincent Don't cry because of my oembed card shenanigans then.
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     Vincent Cloutier (vincent@r.town)'s status on Saturday, 28-Oct-2023 07:06:51 JST Vincent Cloutier

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     @graf I mean that’s a lot of work to ask me to unban poa.st from bird.makeup

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     anime graf mays ?️? (graf@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 28-Oct-2023 07:06:51 JST anime graf mays ?️?

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     @vincent you use a service hosted by us after blocking us from using your service. in every sense of the word you are a nigger
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     anime graf mays ?️? (graf@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 28-Oct-2023 07:06:52 JST anime graf mays ?️?

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     @vincent yeah, im doing it because you're a fucking kike
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     Cool_Zone :njp: (tarnishedyarmulke@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 28-Oct-2023 09:07:06 JST Cool_Zone :njp:

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     Lmao.
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     Vincent Cloutier (vincent@r.town)'s status on Saturday, 28-Oct-2023 09:07:07 JST Vincent Cloutier

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     Found out which one it is

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     DrRyanSkelton (drryanskelton@mugicha.club)'s status on Saturday, 28-Oct-2023 09:08:17 JST DrRyanSkelton

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     Should program your bot better and you wouldn't have these problems. Total retard mistake.
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     pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist: (p@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 28-Oct-2023 12:45:48 JST pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist:

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     • Salastil
     @Salastil @vincent Yeah, especially given how easy it is to run your own Nitter instance instead of chewing up capacity on public ones hosted by other people.
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     Salastil (salastil@pleroma.salastil.com)'s status on Saturday, 28-Oct-2023 12:47:18 JST Salastil

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     In the Matrix channel when you talked to him, but its irrelevant now since there is automated services to do this now https://twitterminator.x86-64-unknown-linux-gnu.zip/

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     Vincent Cloutier (vincent@r.town)'s status on Saturday, 28-Oct-2023 12:47:19 JST Vincent Cloutier

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     @Salastil where did Zadeus offer me that? I think I missed it

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     PonyPanda (ponypanda@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 28-Oct-2023 13:07:19 JST PonyPanda

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     Salastil (salastil@pleroma.salastil.com)'s status on Saturday, 28-Oct-2023 18:02:24 JST Salastil

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     Sourcing the guest accounts is only easy if you have access to ipv6, Otherwise you’re somewhat screwed.

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     pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist: (p@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 28-Oct-2023 22:00:57 JST pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist:

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     @Salastil @vincent Yeah, but apparently Zedeus has automated handing those out.
     
     (Also I am using https://github.com/iv-org/smart-ipv6-rotator being able to get around Google and Twitter as an example next time someone tells me that we're actually ready for IPv6 and it will be fine.)
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     Salastil (salastil@pleroma.salastil.com)'s status on Sunday, 29-Oct-2023 17:23:20 JST Salastil

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     Zedeus doesn’t run the Twitterterminator service – Unittaker does. Zedeus has been largely absent for the past few weeks

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     pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist: (p@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 29-Oct-2023 17:23:43 JST pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist:

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     @Salastil @vincent Ah. Regardless, they are handed out, presumably free of charge.
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     anime graf mays ?️? (graf@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 29-Oct-2023 17:44:21 JST anime graf mays ?️?

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     • Salastil
     @p @Salastil @vincent this burden is heavy but we alone shall bare it pete. no sweat, your twitter linx r safe (I don't even think you use our nitter)
     
     the whole point of all of this was to nudge him into doing the right thing and implementing API like nitter or at be consistent and not scrape our service when he blocks us. instead, he took the hard coded values and moved it to his in-database config adding an additional "lowtrust" boolean. not implementing checks that the posts are even from the right account, not using the Twitter API like we are. still scraping nitter instances. just now he's instead hiding it.
     
     I learned a lot from this experiment tho
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     pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist: (p@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 29-Oct-2023 17:46:45 JST pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist:

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     • Salastil
     @graf @Salastil @vincent
     
     > your twitter linx r safe
     
     :bigbosssalute:
     
     > (I don't even think you use our nitter)
     
     I don't even use my own Nitter instance any more, I tossed it away.
     
     > the whole point of all of this was to nudge him into doing the right thing and implementing API like nitter or at be consistent and not scrape our service when he blocks us. instead, he took the hard coded values and moved it to his in-database config adding an additional "lowtrust" boolean.
     
     What a fucking dickhead.
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     Heil_Honkler (heil_honkler@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 30-Oct-2023 03:48:46 JST Heil_Honkler

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     @vincent >nigger faggot leeches then whines when it gets redirected to israel
     lol lmao, what a kike.
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     :spinnenrad: Eiregoat :spinnenrad: (eiregoat@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 30-Oct-2023 03:48:46 JST :spinnenrad: Eiregoat :spinnenrad:

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     • Heil_Honkler
     Apparently memes reproduce by fucking my eyes 😵💫
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     The MILF Messiah (lunarised@whinge.town)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Nov-2023 02:04:09 JST The MILF Messiah

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     @vincent
     
     May i suggest in the future being kind to the people who provide you with services rather than mass blocking them on sight?
     
     If you find poa.st unsavory, thats fine, but it seems a bit "poor me" to not expect this to happen. Personally i try not to use other peoples services before asking them whether i can or not.
     
     I don't approve of the massive amount of abuse you're getting however, but i think this is a good opportunity for everyone to re-evaluate what tech they use, whether they trust it, and whether they are giving something back to the people who actually host the tech
     
     
     Just my 5 cents
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