What if I set up a Mastodon server and followed absolutely everyone on the Fediverse? Is that illegal? Would instances percieve that as abuse and block me?
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🍄🌈🎮💻🚲🥓🎃💀🏴🛻🇺🇸 (schizanon@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 21-Apr-2024 01:20:32 JST 🍄🌈🎮💻🚲🥓🎃💀🏴🛻🇺🇸
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BeAware :veriweed: (beaware@social.beaware.live)'s status on Sunday, 21-Apr-2024 01:20:31 JST BeAware :veriweed:
@schizanon not sure about this alternate strategy but I have had a few instances of this and every single time other admins considered it abuse. Also, I think unmodified mastodon can only handle 7500 following, but im unsure on this, I just seen it said somewhere.
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🍄🌈🎮💻🚲🥓🎃💀🏴🛻🇺🇸 (schizanon@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 21-Apr-2024 01:20:32 JST 🍄🌈🎮💻🚲🥓🎃💀🏴🛻🇺🇸
If so, how might I conceal what I was doing? What if I used separate accounts, following different sets of users, and built them up over time, and with a little overlap to make them seem reallstic, maybe even multiple domains, and then merged all the posts together to create a single firehose? Is that abuse too?
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BeAware :veriweed: (beaware@social.beaware.live)'s status on Sunday, 21-Apr-2024 06:13:47 JST BeAware :veriweed:
@schizanon nope.🤷♂️there's MANY users who have more than 7500 followers but I have only seen a few that follow more than 7500. There have been a few, but I didn't bother to check which software they were running😬Im sure the limit is a mastodon thing and configurable somehow by editing the source code.
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🍄🌈🎮💻🚲🥓🎃💀🏴🛻🇺🇸 (schizanon@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 21-Apr-2024 06:13:48 JST 🍄🌈🎮💻🚲🥓🎃💀🏴🛻🇺🇸
@BeAware I wonder if that 7500 limit is also enforced on the outgoing.
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