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   Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jul-2026 06:56:39 JST Evan Prodromou

   I made some changes to #tagspub over the last couple of days. It's now using the #IFTAS DNI and AUD domain blocking lists, both for sending and receiving data. It will not let actors on those domains subscribe to tags, send activities, or read any data from the site. I've tried to harden the service to blocked domains as best as I could, which might have been too tight -- let me know if you have problems receiving data from the service.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jul-2026 06:57:03 JST Evan Prodromou

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     This is defence in depth -- we still use block-respecting boosts, so if your blocklist goes beyond what's in the IFTAS lists, users on those domains still won't be able to read your content. But it doesn't work the other way; #tagspub will always block those domains, even if your server is more lenient.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jul-2026 07:06:53 JST Evan Prodromou

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     This also applies to the other #SWF servers that use the #activitypubbot framework -- https://activitypub.bot/ and https://groups.pub/ .

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jul-2026 05:04:20 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @iftas Awesome! They're currently manual, but I've got a ticket open to auto-update. Probably in the next week or so. #IFTAS #tagspub

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     IFTAS (iftas@mastodon.iftas.org)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jul-2026 05:04:21 JST IFTAS

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     @evan Evan, this is great news, glad the lists are of help. Are you OK with me listing them as used by tags.pub on their home pages?

     https://about.iftas.org/library/iftas-abandoned-and-unmanaged-domain-list/

     https://about.iftas.org/library/iftas-dni-list/

     And if you're not auto-updating from source, the #SW_ISAC_ADVISORY tag will let you know when the lists are updated

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     Rob Ricci (ricci@discuss.systems)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jul-2026 07:21:58 JST Rob Ricci

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     @evan

     Inspired by your recommendations to folks to look at the public tag feeds on different servers to understand how much tags do, or don't federate, I've been building a little site to help do just that.

     Here's a screenshot of the current state, still needs a lot of work (esp. visually), but I'd welcome feedback.

     (I was going to try to get it more polished before requesting feedback, but it seems like I might as well do so now.)

     @iftas

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jul-2026 07:26:26 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @ricci @iftas the feedback is, that is WONDERFUL. I cannot wait to share it.