Post ATJFhcnufsInjrICtU by eric@federation.krowverse.services
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(DIR) Post #ATJFhcnufsInjrICtU by eric@federation.krowverse.services
2023-03-05T15:27:46.846667Z
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So now that #NoFediMetaFebruary is over, here are some developments that I was keeping track of that I refained from commenting on at length:* On Scraping and Authorized Fetch *Authorized Fetch on Mastodon is a discoverability nightmare. Many APIs are locked down, impacting my ability to run custom frontends. The framework of Authorized Fetch also prevents decisive actions against scrapers, who can now access REST APIs unauthenticated, which @phessler believes takes power away from Masto Admins who don't want to be scraped. The Krowverse agrees, and currently forces the flagship instance to make manual connections on Nineties Mysteries. Mastodon users do not seem to have the option to turn their AP relays off. This would improve moderation and server performance.* Misskey's Flagship instance bans GNU Social Japan ** Some companies are heeding the call to make their own nodes. Good for them! ** @silverpill works on a FEP that will decouple user identity from server identity ** Instances begin to host Nostr relays alongside the Fediverse *Nostr is a competing protocol that is serverless and relies on public relays and privately held keys to assert user identity. Users who lament the moment they'd have to choose a server to join the Fediverse now don't have to. However, some instances are hosting their own Nostr nodes and have raised concerns about private key leaks should a relay get compromised.* Search crawl gone wrong - an apology *I launched a Yacy instance that indexes my own posts on the Fediverse and have adjusted my robots.txt to explicitly allow it to crawl. I didn't refine the depth and on my first crawl, and I unintentionally scraped thousands of Fediverse posts. I destroyed the entire index and started fresh. At this time, it scrapes blogs that interact with my instances and some RSS feeds that were suggested to me back in 2019. I am profoundly sorry and if you see a post that I did NOT delete, notify me IMMEDIATELY and DO NOT USE a Google relay to do it and I'll Thanos snap it out of existence.*GoToSocial Excludes The Help it needs*GoToSocial refuses help on ideological grounds even though it could harm its ability to federate and meet the goals stated in its request for funding by NLNet, and it boots SPC's @Moon from contributing.* Wildebeest leaks private messages deliberately *Wildebeest, a Fediverse client created by Cloudflare, stirs controversy by leaking private messages and insists it is by design, causing some outrage and driving some to block the Wildebeest user agent. While a fix was made, the damage has been done, and for some who have consistently bashed Cloudflare, namely @verita84 and @dsfgs, they likely feel vindicated by this latest development. I generally do not share sensitive content in private messages and opt for chat, since it forces one on one conversations and implemented differently.* Ilja Space finally has a custom Favicon! Now we wait for @lanodan to follow suit. As well as some 3,000 other Mastodon instances. ** Reminder - Mastodon Green has the same problems as Wildebeest *Consider your options and avoid federating with instances that incur technical debt and disrespect your privacy.* GO language considers adding telemetry to toolchain *I mentioned this because BloatFE relies on this toolchain, and I might consider JS-free frontends that do not use GO. Suggestions welcome.* Misskey drops chat features *Akkoma had previously dropped the features because they claim it was poorly implemented. I have yet to see someone elaborate on what was poorly implemented. I'm suggestible. This means that only Pleroma and Soapbox users have access to the feature, as well as instances that re-enabled it with a patch. I do not think this feature should be dropped as it's the closest implementation to a proper direct message. Direct messages should be named "mentioned messages" to more accurately reflect its scope.* The Krowverse Social Network is Expanding! *I am getting ready to launch Inside Your Computers Tech Federation, a Limited Federation instance like KSF, but just for tech discussions. You might have already seen the preview.
(DIR) Post #ATJFt7egJLZObhSOzg by APPTeOORuzvlGOetVY.verita84@poster.place
2023-03-05T15:31:15.434519Z
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@eric @dsfgs @phessler @silverpill @lanodan @Moon I never heard of Wildbeat and never commented on it before
(DIR) Post #ATJG6AubVu04TM82d6 by eric@federation.krowverse.services
2023-03-05T15:32:15.120772Z
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@verita84 I'm surprised. I figured you'd follow most CF announcements.
(DIR) Post #ATJG6q3uWCo265nYKO by APPTeOORuzvlGOetVY.verita84@poster.place
2023-03-05T15:33:44.246969Z
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@eric nope, I just use them
(DIR) Post #ATJGAj2UZTrxTTzK4m by 1iceloops123@shitposter.club
2023-03-05T15:34:25.686752Z
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@eric @dsfgs @phessler @silverpill @verita84 @lanodan @Moon breaking news Bitcoin social media project noster has a fediverse bridge. So they can brag how much Bitcoin they have,smoke weed and how much child porn they bought on tor.
(DIR) Post #ATLIq7G2BTf7oWJ3hY by dsfgs@activism.openworlds.info
2023-03-06T15:07:18Z
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Thanks for the wrap, Eric. Toolchain telemetry in #Golang, dear god. We never recommend it anyway. Honest q, Oracle don't do that with Java do they?What are peoples' experience, if any, with LightningNetwork based messaging, eg, #Sphinx or #Juggernaut.We are pleased to inform that we are giving fedizens access to the SVG files of our two-years-in-the-making #fediverseIcon set. MM us (see what we did there ;) for pre-publish access/critque.@phessler @eric @silverpill @lanodan @Moon
(DIR) Post #ATLIq7vVhGq5t9iBLk by dsfgs@activism.openworlds.info
2023-03-06T15:11:33Z
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@phessler @eric @silverpill @lanodan @Moon2/2Be careful with #NoFediMetaFeb, it may be seen as a sign of privilege.Hi @verita84, Wilderbeest is CloudFlare's fork of M'don, trying inject themselves further into fedi infrastructure.BTW fosstodon have jumped ship to Cf during a DDoS. We need to show resolve and not cave to extortion. Feel free to personally (ie. maybe not instance-wide) block a CloudFlare'd server.If CF persists we'll block Fos'don/ drop followers with little warning.
(DIR) Post #ATLIq8aHFhRtvamjtQ by APPTeOORuzvlGOetVY.verita84@poster.place
2023-03-06T15:13:43.571906Z
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@dsfgs @phessler @eric @silverpill @lanodan @Moon I self-host and will not stop using Cloudflare.
(DIR) Post #ATLJRsiggSYzjIiUsK by dsfgs@activism.openworlds.info
2023-03-06T15:19:23Z
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@verita84Do you self host over a decentralised internet like I2P also or just legacy net?@phessler @eric @silverpill @lanodan @Moon
(DIR) Post #ATLJRtFIjCeRMRyXi4 by APPTeOORuzvlGOetVY.verita84@poster.place
2023-03-06T15:20:33.751602Z
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@dsfgs @phessler @eric @silverpill @lanodan @Moon The clear net. I would not cal it the legacy net because you can't live without it. Tor/ ipfs, etc are all terrible
(DIR) Post #ATLK9Fif31IbVuNwf2 by dsfgs@activism.openworlds.info
2023-03-06T15:26:07Z
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@verita84Why might Eric have tagged you as being against cf? Wrong veritas84 perhaps?BTW I2P =/= IPFS but not disparaging IPFS when we say that.@phessler @eric @silverpill @lanodan @Moon
(DIR) Post #ATLK9GXM0Xqg386Qfw by APPTeOORuzvlGOetVY.verita84@poster.place
2023-03-06T15:28:24.164069Z
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@dsfgs @phessler @eric @silverpill @lanodan @Moon I am the only verita84 , I told him I had no idea about Wildebest and he implied that I did in the post
(DIR) Post #ATLKLsmHegRS7t6OW0 by dsfgs@activism.openworlds.info
2023-03-06T15:30:30Z
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@verita84He implied that you were are CloudFlare dissident, but he must have had you confused with someone else.Stay well.@eric @silverpill @lanodan @Moon
(DIR) Post #ATLaOmkI8aOxYMZnIO by lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
2023-03-06T18:29:59.491998Z
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@dsfgs @phessler @eric @silverpill @Moon @verita84 Don't call Wildebeest a fork, it is not, it's a clone.Cloudflare probably wouldn't touch anything AGPL and even less integrate it into their services.And yes that means Cloudflare did the first proprietary shit on the fediverse.
(DIR) Post #ATLaVJLTqSCOOh5CLo by APPTeOORuzvlGOetVY.verita84@poster.place
2023-03-06T18:31:40.883041Z
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@lanodan @dsfgs @phessler @eric @silverpill @Moon oh well. Move to nostr, the future
(DIR) Post #ATLag2PN9pRZ3L1CF6 by lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
2023-03-06T18:33:04.849380Z
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@verita84 @dsfgs @phessler @eric @silverpill @Moon lol, if nostr would have proprietary implementations it would be sitting ducks in terms of mitigating against it.Wildebeest can be blocked in so many ways on ActivityPub side of things.
(DIR) Post #ATLaiLEK9KZe0TwtNI by APPTeOORuzvlGOetVY.verita84@poster.place
2023-03-06T18:34:02.250823Z
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@lanodan @dsfgs @phessler @eric @silverpill @Moon Know anyone that is actually using Wildebeast?
(DIR) Post #ATLarg1wBThJ7jbfxA by lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
2023-03-06T18:34:53.095704Z
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@verita84 @dsfgs @phessler @eric @silverpill @Moon I don't think anyone important is.http://demo.fedilist.com/instance?q=&ip=&software=wildebeest®istrations=&onion=
(DIR) Post #ATLc1sjHvJw1MMJUwq by APPTeOORuzvlGOetVY.verita84@poster.place
2023-03-06T18:48:44.601431Z
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@phessler @lanodan @dsfgs @silverpill click mute then