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   Elena Rossini 🌈 (_elena@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Jul-2025 21:12:59 JST Elena Rossini 🌈

   • Matthias Pfefferle
   • Konstantin Obenland

   @pfefferle @obenland I have a question about uploading blocklists to a federated Wordpress site.

   I noticed this in Settings > Discussion

   "When a comment contains any of these words in its content, author name, URL, email, IP address, or browser’s user agent string, it will be put in the Trash. One word or IP address per line. It will match inside words, so “press” will match 'WordPress'."

   I was trying to upload Seirdy's blocklist but several extensions contain .social or .org so I held off

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     Elena Rossini 🌈 (_elena@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Jul-2025 21:12:58 JST Elena Rossini 🌈

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     • Matthias Pfefferle
     • Konstantin Obenland

     @obenland thank you Konstantin!

     I wouldn't just put .social there but:

     actualknowntoxicinstance.social

     If I do that, other instances that have .social aren't blocked then? I thought that one word would suffice.

     Thanks again!

     @pfefferle

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     Matthias Pfefferle (pfefferle@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Jul-2025 21:12:58 JST Matthias Pfefferle

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     • Konstantin Obenland

     @_elena @obenland it is the whole word, domain, email address, … so if you add a specific .social domain, WordPress will not block all .social TLDs!

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     Konstantin Obenland (obenland@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Jul-2025 21:12:59 JST Konstantin Obenland

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     • Matthias Pfefferle

     @_elena @pfefferle Yeah, I’d probably start a bit more conservatively, meaning specific, in the terms you want to block. `.social` is indeed quite broad. The mechanism is pretty crude, it has no concept of users or instances—it just matches the terms in the block list with any incoming activity.

     I wrote about it on ActivityPub.blog, although reading it back just now, I realized it doesn’t go terribly deep into how it works under the hood.

     https://activitypub.blog/2025/05/12/your-site-your-rules-filtering-fediverse-activity/