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   BeAware :fediverse: (beaware@social.beaware.live)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jun-2024 09:05:30 JST BeAware :fediverse:

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   • Leah (Cloudstylistin)
   • Tealk

   @leah @Tealk Normal federation would require a single user instance to follow every single account on the Fediverse.

   Fediverse works strictly by follow relationships. If it's not posted by someone I follow, I won't see replies. I don't think it's possible to follow every account, unfortunately. This is the only solution.

   If you have another solution, it'd be GREATLY appreciated as it's a widely known issue that people are constantly trying to find solutions for.

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     Leah (Cloudstylistin) (leah@chaos.social)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jun-2024 09:05:32 JST Leah (Cloudstylistin)

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     • Tealk

     @Tealk most probably than you are blocked by now. Why do you really need it? Why not rely on normal federation? To pin a number to it, for a random day we've seen over 300k requests from FediFetchers in the past.

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     Tealk (tealk@rollenspiel.social)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jun-2024 09:05:33 JST Tealk

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     • Leah (Cloudstylistin)

     @leah But blocking that doesn't make much sense, does it? It is a function that is urgently needed and whether it is controlled via an external tool or built into Mastodon, the load will be the same.

     I myself use an instance of FediFetcher on my infrastructure and would find it extremely bad if the tool stopped working.

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     Leah (Cloudstylistin) (leah@chaos.social)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jun-2024 09:05:35 JST Leah (Cloudstylistin)

     The amount of FediFetcher instances scraping chaos.social is alarming. They all come from different Azure IPs because it's the recommended way to run it. Github reports: 1.361 deployments. We also see massive scraping from the TOR Network and scraping of RSS Feeds from SerendeputyBot. That sucks! #mastoadmin