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Gnarley Boot (gnarley_boot@norwoodzero.net)'s status on Saturday, 02-Mar-2024 18:35:25 JST Gnarley Boot

Wait a second, I remember when someone made a really convincing case to me that Gab is essentially a honeypot. So with an influx of it's userbase here now I wonder if the glowboys are going to be more active (if they already weren't).

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  Gnarley Boot (gnarley_boot@norwoodzero.net)'s status on Saturday, 02-Mar-2024 19:02:08 JST Gnarley Boot
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  MAGA bros acting like they can't just steal the election again smdh...
  
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  Gnarley Boot (gnarley_boot@norwoodzero.net)'s status on Saturday, 02-Mar-2024 19:02:11 JST Gnarley Boot
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  Hey, if revolver never goes anywhere, my hats off to him for trying. But I think eventually it's going to be a thing, eventually. Gosh, I sound like a trust the plan Qanon tard...
  
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  Zergling_man (zergling_man@sacred.harpy.faith)'s status on Saturday, 02-Mar-2024 19:02:11 JST Zergling_man
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  @gnarley_boot @Herman_Hetherington 300 MORE DAYS UNTIL TRUMP WINS AGAIN
  Actually it should be less than 300 now I think?
  I dunno, don't really care.
  
  I still believe in Chronicles of Elyria.
  
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  Gnarley Boot (gnarley_boot@norwoodzero.net)'s status on Saturday, 02-Mar-2024 19:02:12 JST Gnarley Boot
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  Look, Pete is a character, but I think it's just the result of him having a full time dev job IRL, so I could only imagine something as serious as revolver is going to take a lot of fucking time for just one man to cook up. He needs to open source it and get a team going contributing to it, in my personal humble opinion (I repect the guy immensely and hes way fucking smarter than me by miles).
  
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  Zergling_man (zergling_man@sacred.harpy.faith)'s status on Saturday, 02-Mar-2024 19:02:12 JST Zergling_man
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  @gnarley_boot @Herman_Hetherington Allowing other people to contribute stuff is generally more effort than just doing it yourself, becasue you have to understand their code. You can't just accept this black box whatever and hope it works like it's described.
  At some scale you just have to let that happen, I do not think revolver is going to hit that scale.
  
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  Herman_Hetherington (herman_hetherington@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 02-Mar-2024 19:02:13 JST Herman_Hetherington
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  @gnarley_boot Yeah but The Whole Known Network isn't just FSE posts, he blocks very little outside of literal CSAM.
  
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  Gnarley Boot (gnarley_boot@norwoodzero.net)'s status on Saturday, 02-Mar-2024 19:02:13 JST Gnarley Boot
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  Ah, I see, that makes sense now. His server is down, because the box died and he's building revolver (a new fedi gadget thing that might be revolutionary, we don't know yet). Kind of a coincidence this is happening now, tin foil hat time bois!
  
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  Herman_Hetherington (herman_hetherington@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 02-Mar-2024 19:02:13 JST Herman_Hetherington
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  @gnarley_boot Revolver is coming in 2022...
  
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  Herman_Hetherington (herman_hetherington@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 02-Mar-2024 19:02:14 JST Herman_Hetherington
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  @gnarley_boot There was a company pulling every post off TWKN feed of FSE for quite a while specifically for the feds. They stopped doing that but are almost certainly doing something else.
  
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  Gnarley Boot (gnarley_boot@norwoodzero.net)'s status on Saturday, 02-Mar-2024 19:02:14 JST Gnarley Boot
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  FSE is mostly nerds and a few IRL racists, stupid ass feds...
  
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  p (p@shitposter.club)'s status on Monday, 04-Mar-2024 13:09:33 JST p
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  :kissingercalling: For political reasons, we can't be caught running their software.
  :grantcalling: It's okay, we have our best guys on it. The scrapers are incredibly stealthy, created by the finest minds at MIT.
  :kissingercalling: I thought Sloane is all psychopaths that are good at statistics, not engineers.
  :grantkms: ...
  
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  p (p@shitposter.club)'s status on Monday, 04-Mar-2024 13:09:34 JST p
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  > There was a company pulling every post off TWKN feed of FSE for quite a while specifically for the feds.
  
  That was Boardreader.com, which is owned by SocialGist. They were monitoring for threats against "Blackrock Executives".
  
  Very recently some dickhead professor from the Sloane Business School at MIT was scraping a large number of fedi instances. He turns out to have been on fedi ( @Drand ) and he says he's really sorry and swears that it was an accident that he deliberately changed his scraper's user-agent to pretend to be a browser and then hammered the shit out of fedi. Some time later, he turns out to have shown up in the pitch deck for a grant from the NSF, he's on a team that wanted to help social media companies avoid the PR blowback when they get caught censoring "misinformation". ( https://screamshitter.club/rvl/full/835374c1bfa10895663d4d1c94500049823ea928fb7e9c47b01a6b7f8f07c091 ). There's a thread about it: https://nya.social/notes/818c3d1bdb3e20788eb08e25
  
  Tangentially related, NATO SC was scraping nitter.poast.org, but they were only scraping their own account UA belonged to an electronic sign or something, probably they were just trying to get their Twitter posts onto a sign in the lobby without having to go through the Twitter API.
  
  There have been other IP addresses that belong to government buildings sniffing around, a lot of them are just browsing. There are a handful of scrapers that remain mysterious. Probably more are coming, which is retarded because you don't even need to scrape fedi to get all of the posts.
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    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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  0 (https://gh0st.live/users/0)'s status on Monday, 04-Mar-2024 13:09:34 JST 0
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  > you don't even need to scrape fedi to get all of the posts.
  
  "You mean they already made software specifically for collecting posts from this network?"
  
  Yes, they're calling it an "Eenstance" sir. Still no luck deciphering their cryptic language though.
  
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