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

  • Want to keep track of this thread?
    Accounts can bookmark posts, watch threads for updates, and jump back to where you stopped reading.
    Create account
skunt said:
man if i knew 3k requests over a month would piss off half the fediverse i'd have done it months ago (in minecraft)
Click to expand...
Follow a big relay and you'll have tonnes of traffic going in and out even on a dead single user instance. These people are fucking insane. One of them complains about bandwidth overages, like how the fuck did you get an overage? Are you running this shit on a cellular connection?

My mind is boggled.
 
This is like when the University of Minnesota deliberately wrote bad code to Linux to test for vulnerabilities without telling anyone.
Weird how this is the second time a University funded and approved a diet black hat approach specifically to alt-tech.
 
skunt said:
are these people really this neurotic or are they running their shit on raspberry pi's?
Click to expand...
Yes to both.
Apparently a requirement for running a mastodon/pleroma instance is being a paranoid schizophrenic and utterly losing your mind when someone does something you didn't expressly consider and consent to with your server that you set up for people to use. Before Mastodon the software started leaning into full text search support (it did not exist before that, you could only search hashtags (yes, seriously)) people were defederating instances for implementing broken, half-baked full text search solutions on their own.
Google is literally Hitler, you know.
As to resource usage, Mastodon in particular is a braphog (lol rails), but pleroma is actually so lightweight it could be run totally fine on a raspberry pi, or on a $2 shithost somewhere (database notwithstanding). So in either of those cases if your traffic doubles or triples then you're going to feel it.
Anyway these people are insane, paranoid, or (usually) both.
 
It’s funny that David wants a discussion, but is on a troon instance that has most instances blocked.
 
tiefling said:
The person responsible claims it was in order to screen to see what kind of news is shared and what kind of “toxic language” is being used across these instances.
Click to expand...
Remember when MIT did actually useful stuff instead of retarded bullshit like this?
 
skunt said:
i enjoy how they complain about "user privacy" too, while another openly displays how they keep access logs for over a month and don't anonymize IP addresses. privacy indeed.
Click to expand...
I’m not a web man, a master of webs, a dominator of the masses if you will, but I assume they keep the information to track engagement rates by country or to hand over to the feds if some anonymous guy is openly talking about shooting up a school and they need to catch ‘em real quick. That’s probably a standard practice. I think even Null hands over that info if the feds ask for it.

If not, just lemme know. I like learning about this stuff and this is just a guess.
 
Al Dente Alighieri said:
I’m not a web man, a master of webs, a dominator of the masses if you will, but I assume they keep the information to track engagement rates by country or to hand over to the feds if some anonymous guy is openly talking about shooting up a school and they need to catch ‘em real quick. That’s probably a standard practice. I think even Null hands over that info if the feds ask for it.

If not, just lemme know. I like learning about this stuff and this is just a guess.
Click to expand...
I'll explain quickly:

Every web request you make will go through a webserver at one point, and access-logging will be enabled by default. This collects things like the IP address of the request, the URL of the request, the user agent, time - small stuff like that.
There's nothing forcing the owner to keep access logging enabled*. There are times and places where it can be advantageous though. For example, if some retard is constantly signing up new accounts and posting illegal stuff. Or maybe you're getting blasted with insane amounts of traffic and need more info on what's going on.
Most of the time you don't need to disable access logging. There are tools you can run to anonymize the IP address (IE replacing the last octet of the IP address). If you do need to enable it, you probably don't need to keep logs for more than a day or a week at most.

* A court order would change your mind sharpish. To be fair, if someone is posting turbo-illegal shit on your tiny mastodon instance then you won't find many objections if you proactively reach out to authorities.

track engagement rates by country
Click to expand...
This would be handled by analytic tools like google analytics. There are far better FOSS tools like plausible/umami too.

I think even Null hands over that info if the feds ask for it.
Click to expand...
He'd be a moron not to but kiwifarms isn't really that comparable to a hobby mastodon instance. He probably gets more abuse reports in a week than most people will see in a lifetime.

This got a bit more into-the-weeds than it should be because... it's silly - it's expected for sites to log requests. I'm just being a nitpicking autist about it.
 
Maybe this MIT Soros funded skiddie should focus on more mainstream platforms ran by his globohomo goon friends, like the one owned by a guy that recently voiced approval of some idiot Jew ramblings.

It's actually quite funny to see this weirdo getting dunked on by trannies. To do these stats stuff of any kind, there's an ethics committee where the process must be evaluated. I guess MIT doesn't have one because to put it simply, they don't see users of sites that aren't controlled by big companies as human. Did this guy just lift a bunch of shit from stackexchange? :story:, I hope he cites it properly too.
 
@Sprate Header , I made some more archives of MIT Glownigger Rand's Google doc due to the Wayback Machine's tendency to capitulate to removal requests.

Archive Today
Ghost Archive

To think that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which was once a respected university, has degenerated to trying to be the internet police. A depressing story.
 
Cyberpunk Panatela said:
To think that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which was once a respected university, has degenerated to trying to be the internet police. A depressing story.
Click to expand...
I think they should probably concentrate on the huge suicide and sex assault rate of their own students and fuck the hell off with Internet censorship.
 
Cyberpunk Panatela said:
@Sprate Header , I made some more archives of MIT Glownigger Rand's Google doc due to the Wayback Machine's tendency to capitulate to removal requests.

Archive Today
Ghost Archive

To think that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which was once a respected university, has degenerated to trying to be the internet police. A depressing story.
Click to expand...
these are the people who got aaron swartz arrested for downloading PDFs they can go to hell
 
Saddam Hussain Obama said:
these are the people who got aaron swartz arrested for downloading PDFs they can go to hell
Click to expand...
If you want to blame someone for Schwartz getting nicked, it should be these fuckers - they are the owners of JSTOR, and if you think they'll sit back and do nothing if someone even looks like he's "infringing" their contemptible "copyright", you are sadly mistaken. (Yes, the bastards use the universities as their attack dogs - they are that damned lazy.)

Mr. Schwartz should also have known that if you're going to break the law, you never do it using your own name.
 
It seems like there’s an effort to try to turn every tech platform into some kind of regulated place where you can’t say the wrong thing or else you’d face arbitrary repercussions. These people saw the influx of users branching out to other platforms from twitter and decided they need to follow up in order to try to control them like they do twitter. Faggy bluesky is a good example of this. Not only do you need a code to access it, but even liking a post there that violates the rules is grounds for account termination. The moderation there is just like twitter before musk where you have people happy to report you for anything they can if you don’t go along with what they believe in. This, of course, isn’t a surprise because these people only left twitter because they felt they wouldn’t be in control anymore, just like with twitter.

ロボ﹏§¤r﹏h¶rœ said:

Threads is blocking servers on the Fediverse. Here's how we unblocked ourselves.​

Click to expand...
Why would you bother? Zuckerberg platforms deserve to rot and keep the midwits and boomers contained.
 
tiefling said:
Why would you bother? Zuckerberg platforms deserve to rot and keep the midwits and boomers contained.
Click to expand...
It's nothing more than means of protest of sorts. The technique used only lets the instance fetch posts from Threads and make it viewable from its side, the block on Threads side remains and they won't see your posts. Ironically, the same feature is used and abused by thousands of Mastodon/Akkoma troons, so the workaround applies to them as well. Hilarity ensues.
 
queer.af, a Mastodon instance, has been killed by the Taliban:
queer1.jpg queer2.jpg
(https://archive.fo/EaSjE)

lol
queer3.jpg
(https://archive.fo/y7OwU)
 
Last edited:
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom