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Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Dec-2023 20:11:45 JST Sexy Moon

thanks guys, you pestered me to unblock unauthenticated access, and immediately this dickhead scraped as many timelines as he could, my logs are filled with his requests.

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  Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Dec-2023 20:13:29 JST Sexy Moon
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  @Zerglingman read the quoted post
  
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  Machismo (zerglingman@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Dec-2023 20:13:30 JST Machismo
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  @Moon Do you know who it is?
  
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  Machismo (zerglingman@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Dec-2023 20:17:15 JST Machismo
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  @Moon I cannot see a quoted post. FSE strips them from contents (presumably p's still mad at Gleasonator), but I can't see it from other instances either.
  
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  teknomunk (teknomunk@apogee.polaris-1.work)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Dec-2023 20:17:15 JST teknomunk
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  See https://nya.social/notes/818c3d1bdb3e20788eb08e25
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  1. Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: nya.social
    
    anatil e\x9f\xf0\xbc\xa5n lu\x00l (@natalie)
    
    there is currently a bot inside MIT IP space, address `18[.]4[.]38[.]176`, scanning fedi at large. i have confirmed this with 5+ unrelated instance admins, large and small instances, across mastodon/misskey/pleroma/akkoma. the bot is poorly behaved. i have observed it making repeated requests, multiple times per second, for the exact same paths (the paths being, generally: user profiles, specific posts, and sometimes following links in posts). returning 403s does not stop this activity. one of my domains received hundreds of additional requests despite replying with 403 to all of them. i have also seen it make requests for paths containing html tags - seems like a badly written parser. the purpose of these requests and what data is being gathered is unclear. PTR on the ip returns `sts-drand03.mit.edu`. a quick web search for "mit drand" brings back https://mitsloan.mit.edu/faculty/directory/david-g-rand and his personal website: https://davidrand-cooperation.com/ (note: other IPs in the /24 also have names in the PTR which match up with names of MIT faculty, but only the .176 IP appears to be involved in this activity). seems he's doing research into "misinformation" and "fake news" on social media. he also appears to be on fedi! so @Drand@techhub.social, given this activity is sourced from an IP with your name on it, could you share the purpose of this traffic? what data is being collected and how is it being used? do you plan to respect robots.txt or identify yourself in your useragent? is there a process for instance admins to opt out of this activity other than blocking the source IP?
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  Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Dec-2023 20:24:52 JST Sexy Moon
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  @Zerglingman @teknomunk l thats gitlab, I don't think gitea is doing it yet
  
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  Machismo (zerglingman@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Dec-2023 20:24:53 JST Machismo
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  @natalie @Moon @Drand @teknomunk Oh yeah he's found my instance. Nowhere near as rapidly though (about 6/s currently), and the only time he used that UA was on my gitea (I think?):
  /var/log/nginx/access.log:18.4.38.176 - - [05/Dec/2023:18:36:31 +1100] "GET /Zergling_man/clemmy/ HTTP/1.1" 200 47853 "-" "Python-urllib/3.9"
  /var/log/nginx/access.log:18.4.38.176 - - [05/Dec/2023:18:36:32 +1100] "GET /Zergling_man/clemmy/</a> HTTP/1.1" 404 11 "-" "Python-urllib/3.9"
  /var/log/nginx/access.log:18.4.38.176 - - [05/Dec/2023:18:36:32 +1100] "GET /Zergling_man/clemmy/%3C/a%3E HTTP/1.1" 404 9520 "-" "unshortenit 0.4.0"
  
  Has gitea released its AP stuff yet?
  
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  Machismo (zerglingman@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Dec-2023 20:24:54 JST Machismo
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  @teknomunk @Drand @natalie @Moon I see.
  
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  (mint@ryona.agency)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Dec-2023 21:02:13 JST
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  @Zerglingman @Moon Pleroma simply discards AP object fields unknown to it, and 2.2 FSE is running on long predates quoteposts being merged in upstream. Nothing to do with p's changes, and there's no fallback link since SPC doesn't have InlineQuotePolicy enabled.
  
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  (mint@ryona.agency)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Dec-2023 21:03:47 JST
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  @Zerglingman @Moon Ironically, both the OP and quoted post failed to fetch here since nya.social either has misconfigured ipv6 or nullroutes me (which is strange to do while completely ignoring ipv4).
  
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  Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Dec-2023 21:03:59 JST Sexy Moon
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  @mint @Zerglingman p could add an mrf I guess to extract the url or something
  
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  (mint@ryona.agency)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Dec-2023 21:06:26 JST
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  @Moon @Zerglingman Add it on your own side, you can't convince thousands of other instances to do so.
  
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  Machismo (zerglingman@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Dec-2023 21:07:39 JST Machismo
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  @mint @Moon Quote posts are fake and gay anyway.
  
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  (mint@ryona.agency)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Dec-2023 21:47:22 JST
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  @jeff @Moon 18.0.0.0/11 then, since everything after that is AWS.
  
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  autism :verified: (jeff@misinformation.wikileaks2.org)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Dec-2023 21:47:23 JST autism :verified:
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  @Moon deny 18.0.0.0/8;
  
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  autism :verified: (jeff@misinformation.wikileaks2.org)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Dec-2023 21:51:36 JST autism :verified:
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  @mint @Moon aws gets the bullet too
  
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  feld (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Dec-2023 23:47:26 JST feld
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  @Moon just needs some rate limiting IMO. Let them have it but make it take forever
  
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