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   jae (jae@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Sunday, 30-Mar-2025 20:17:45 JST jae

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   @mint @p @dcc @sun @nyanide @pwm
   
   not sure if it's just bot for curation or potential public timeline booster and collector. it's from the uk and i don't trust people with bad teeth.
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Monday, 31-Mar-2025 08:14:29 JST pistolero

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     @jae @dcc @mint @nyanide @pwm @sun
     
     Nah, it's a bot: https://newsmast.social/@newsmast/111963831495789541 or picrel. They have some people review once in a while, but they have the bot repost based on hashtags.
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 11:25:45 JST pistolero

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     @jae @dcc @mint @nyanide @pwm @sun @newsmast Incidentally, brief update on this while I'm thinking about it. A couple of days ago, I tried to figure out how they are getting posts from FSE, since no one on newsmast.social is following anyone on FSE.
     
     Despite having an entire instance to federate with, they actually use a scraper that fetches not just posts but also tries to get followers/following lists (which they might just do for user discovery, but see the attached PDF; incidentally, they insist in that PDF and elsewhere on their blog that they're not scraping, but my log files say otherwise: they get posts by sending requests to the outbox endpoint, and then when they've gotten those, they look at the following/followers endpoints). Probably scraped a decent chunk of fedi: people put newsmast.community onto their blocklists, but this doesn't stop backend.newsmast.org from scraping them.
     
     The codebase is actually a pile of code fragments demonstrating their API endpoints; it's just an incomplete Rails application, basically useless on its own and produced by some offshore guys (Myanmar, according to https://www.newsmastfoundation.org/about-us/our-team/ ): https://github.com/newsmast22/mammoth . They claim to use the "Oliphant" blocklist at https://www.newsmastfoundation.org/our-blog/reimagining-the-fediverse/ . They were apparently founded in response to the war in Ukraine and Elon buying Twitter, or at least that's what they claim: https://www.newsmastfoundation.org/about-us/our-story/ .
     
     If you want a conspiracy theory, speaking of Ukraine, the updates to their codebase slowed to a trickle in October (only one commit after 2024-10-10), same time nafo.uk stopped responding ( https://fedilist.com/instance/nafo.uk "Last successful contact: 2024-10-20"). Looks like they bought indieweb.social also: https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/03/27/the-next-stage-for-indiewebsocial.html .
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      (mint@ryona.agency)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 16:42:00 JST 

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     @p @dcc @pwm @jae @nyanide @newsmast @sun >We filter out NSFW, crypto and hate speech, so that content is all excluded.
     Boring. I want to see a pdf that cites cum.salon.
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     @mint @pwm @jae @p @nyanide @newsmast @sun Thats what i thought, whats funny is though this proves that no stir has 50% less user than the entirely of fedi.
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 16:58:21 JST pistolero

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     @mint @dcc @jae @newsmast @nyanide @pwm @sun Become the ruling party.
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 16:59:15 JST pistolero

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     @dcc @mint @jae @newsmast @nyanide @pwm @sun Well, entirety of fedi that *isn't* on Oliphant's blocklist.
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      (mint@ryona.agency)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 17:10:19 JST 

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     @p @dcc @pwm @jae @nyanide @newsmast @sun Surk already did a coup yesterday, I'm not sure if pernis is posting from his account himself right now (not like someone else's posts weren't a thing before, but the ratio felt lower).
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     ✙ dcc :pedomustdie: :phear_slackware: (dcc@annihilation.social)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 17:19:50 JST ✙ dcc :pedomustdie: :phear_slackware:

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     @p @pwm @jae @nyanide @newsmast @mint @sun Yep
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     tsoifan1997 (sysrq@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 17:20:35 JST tsoifan1997

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     He's fine so long as he doesn't start voidposting.
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     þernia (pernia@cum.salon)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 18:01:37 JST þernia

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     @sysrq @dcc @pwm @jae @p @nyanide @newsmast @mint @sun thats not a bad idea....
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      (mint@ryona.agency)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 19:26:29 JST 

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     @jae @dcc @pwm @p @nyanide @newsmast @sun :manhattan3::da_nose:
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     jae (jae@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 19:26:30 JST jae

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     @p @dcc @mint @newsmast @nyanide @pwm @sun lovely. more cocknose people.
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     jae (jae@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 19:39:07 JST jae

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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Friday, 04-Apr-2025 07:30:48 JST pistolero

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     @jae @dcc @mint @newsmast @nyanide @pwm @sun Fun mysteries; at least they properly identify themselves in the UA.
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     jae (jae@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Friday, 04-Apr-2025 08:35:45 JST jae

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     @p @dcc @mint @newsmast @nyanide @pwm @sun but are they in the ua? only the cocknose can answer it
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Friday, 04-Apr-2025 08:37:23 JST pistolero

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     @jae @dcc @mint @newsmast @nyanide @pwm @sun UA versus .ua: I get jokes. Sometimes I get jokes.
     
     I think they've got healthy funding and came out of nowhere with a scraper to eat fedi. They claim to be from the .uk and this strikes me as plausible.
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Friday, 04-Apr-2025 15:17:24 JST pistolero

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     @dcc @jae @mint @newsmast @nyanide @pwm @sun lol
     
     lmao
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Friday, 04-Apr-2025 15:19:22 JST pistolero

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     @dcc @jae @mint @newsmast @nyanide @pwm @sun Anyone can get an instance to block them by spamming gamer words. Not everyone can get blocked for connecting the dots.
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     @p @pwm @jae @nyanide @newsmast @mint @sun Lol
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     jae (jae@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Friday, 04-Apr-2025 19:14:09 JST jae

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     @p @dcc @mint @newsmast @nyanide @pwm @sun p-shirt
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     jae (jae@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 08:02:08 JST jae

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     @p @dcc @mint @newsmast @nyanide @pwm @sun
     
     > gamer words
     
     what does this mean. there's reports that fse posts inject news and urkaine tags for other instances, but i'm not sure.
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 08:05:37 JST pistolero

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     @jae @dcc @mint @newsmast @nyanide @pwm @sun
     
     > what does this mean.
     
     Gamer words? Pic related.
     
     > news and urkaine tags
     
     Didn't bother them for a week. It is how I found out about them, though.
     
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     jae (jae@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 08:40:18 JST jae

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     @p @dcc @mint @newsmast @nyanide @pwm @sun mystery solved. no longer have to say its their instance.
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     @jae @dcc @mint @newsmast @nyanide @pwm @sun Yeah; I didn't realize there was an instance full of bots that repost specific tags. These guys, the scraping is relatively unobtrusive or I probably would have noticed it sooner, and if it wasn't also trying to scrape follower/following lists, it wouldn't have bothered me.
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     jae (jae@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 09:03:21 JST jae

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     @p @dcc @mint @newsmast @nyanide @pwm @sun what should bother you is the bbq is still here. and you are not. its 2600 day. move ye arse
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     @jae @dcc @mint @newsmast @nyanide @pwm @sun Can't get down there today, unfortunately. (Say hey to the dude for me if you attend.)
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