The Fediverse - Thousands of diverse feds sniping at each other for clout on the dollar tree version of twitter

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乙乙乙 said:
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a fedi ratio :)
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There's a bigger one.
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Does anyone remember FediASINT (A)? It was a tool to see the users you were interacting with the most frequently. There was a bit of speculation about what the purpose of it was and whether it was trying to track "bad actors". It was up for about a week or so before the author took it down and replaced with a smug ramble about triggering muh alt rights and Gargron.
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Good bye, FediASINT!

This was fun, but FediASINT has achieved its goals and so was shut down. Thanks for everything, Fediverse!

We planned on running this tool for a few days until it made its way into Fedi meta. But y'all's reaction was far quicker and more intense than we could have ever imagined! Shoutout to those who realized that authorized fetch stops the crawler from fetching their posts. Technically speaking, we could have kept the party going, but it would require significantly more resources, and none of us consider it a worthwhile investment.

The funniest part was the right wing getting triggered by the word "problematic". It was our fear they would use our tool for malicious purposes. However, a single word in the announcement post helped us avoid that! Roughly 90% of the requests we received were for alt-right Pleroma instances.

The Gibson hinting at us being related to an intelligence agency is worth a separate mention as well.

The GDPR requests made very little sense to us, though were amusing to see.

The saddest part was Eugene Rochko blocking us for "doxxing", which we most certainly didn't engage in. We think that he considered us a PR risk, even if a minor one. That reaction was disappointing. But it is probably the fastest moderation action Mastodon.social has taken in years.

We expected at least someone to get upset by us using FingerprintJS, though it seems nobody noticed.

Otherwise, the reception was pretty much exactly as we expected. We wish we could participate in the conversation, instead of being an external observer. But we did achieve our goals: 1) successfully force a Fedi meta; 2) test our software architecture for resilience; 3) upset all the privacy fanatics; and 4) get more instances to enable authorized fetch.

We have one question left: why do all Fediverse software packages leave C2S API endpoints for favorites, reposts and reactions open? It is absolutely unnecessary. They are not used for federation; in Mastodon, they aren't used in the web app either (although it seems like that might change in the nearest future?). While Pleroma does use them, we do not consider their use-case worthwhile.

We encourage you to mail your software package maintainers to get that problem solved, so that we are the first (?) and last who could build a publicly accessible tool like FediASINT.

If anyone wants to chat, our email is still the same: undefined@aaathats3as.com. Later!

I don't remember perfectly but I believe the tool was up during February, also known as No Meta February on the Fediverse. I guess that's why they state one of their goals being to "force a Fedi meta", pulling the classic "I trolld u".
 
乙乙乙 said:
I don't remember perfectly but I believe the tool was up during February, also known as No Meta February on the Fediverse. I guess that's why they state one of their goals being to "force a Fedi meta", pulling the classic "I trolld u".
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I haven't seen the cretinous "muh social experiment" cope in years. Even most retards know enough not to pull that one these days.
 
Apparently there was some meeting between big shots on the Fediverse and Meta that was under a NDA. Fediverse trannies are freaking out about it and are fediblocking threads.net, which seems to be an instagram error page (archive). It seems like this is Meta's Fediverse project but I have no idea why or how people know this.

They put up a page at fedipact.online (archive) with a list of all the trannies signing the anti-Meta Fedi pact.
 
Fëanor Curufinwë said:
Apparently there was some meeting between big shots on the Fediverse and Meta that was under a NDA. Fediverse trannies are freaking out about it and are fediblocking threads.net, which seems to be an instagram error page (archive). It seems like this is Meta's Fediverse project but I have no idea why or how people know this.

They put up a page at fedipact.online (archive) with a list of all the trannies signing the anti-Meta Fedi pact.
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Mfw my meddling with the free internet reaches it's natural conclusion.
 
autosarcophagy said:
now peertube has been gone after by journalists peertube statment

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Framasoft deserved this. They pushed the Contrapoints peertube instance on their landing page, tried to hand wave it away as a volunteer controlling the instance promotion list, and used the same leftist tactic of telling the people to join the volunteer group if they wanted to influence the list(which always goes nowhere).


Meta is just trying to pick up the witch, "femcel", and malingerer demographic that Tumblr lost. :smug:
 
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Kendall Motor Oil said:
Framasoft deserved this. They pushed the Contrapoints peertube instance on their landing page, tried to hand wave it away as a volunteer controlling the instance promotion list, and used the same leftist tactic of telling the people to join the volunteer group if they wanted to influence the list(which always goes nowhere).


Meta is just trying to pick up the witch, "femcel", and malingerer demographic that Tumblr lost. :smug:
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it seems they all have that they all seem to be made by leftist or communists . like lemmy had slur filter build in. but going after the the software seems stupid i don't really care who makes it if its open source.
 
autosarcophagy said:
it seems they all have that they all seem to be made by leftist or communists . like lemmy had slur filter build in. but going after the the software seems stupid i don't really care who makes it if its open source.
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People start taking issue when the creator also tries to control the federations like Gargon tries to. The "official" instance and the "official" site with a totally-not-approved instance list to funnel people into their federation and try to starve out other federations/servers.
 
Kendall Motor Oil said:
People start taking issue when the creator also tries to control the federations like Gargon tries to. The "official" instance and the "official" site with a totally-not-approved instance list to funnel people into their federation and try to starve out other federations/servers.
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yes i think so to its like the search engine for peertube videos after that ISD article they controld that more with a block list. but its open source so someone could make a better one with no bullshit.
 
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