Post AcbEQJDphPIJFTSLiq by nicdex@techhub.social
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(DIR) Post #AcWHg4UafMGJffSfjc by natalie@nya.social
2023-12-06T03:11:24.990Z
64 likes, 87 repeats
there is currently a bot inside MIT IP space, address 18[.]4[.]38[.]176, scanning fedi at large. i have confirmed this with 5+ unrelated instance admins, large and small instances, across mastodon/misskey/pleroma/akkoma.the bot is poorly behaved. i have observed it making repeated requests, multiple times per second, for the exact same paths (the paths being, generally: user profiles, specific posts, and sometimes following links in posts). returning 403s does not stop this activity. one of my domains received hundreds of additional requests despite replying with 403 to all of them. i have also seen it make requests for paths containing html tags - seems like a badly written parser. the purpose of these requests and what data is being gathered is unclear.PTR on the ip returns sts-drand03.mit.edu. a quick web search for "mit drand" brings back https://mitsloan.mit.edu/faculty/directory/david-g-rand and his personal website: https://davidrand-cooperation.com/ (note: other IPs in the /24 also have names in the PTR which match up with names of MIT faculty, but only the .176 IP appears to be involved in this activity).seems he's doing research into "misinformation" and "fake news" on social media. he also appears to be on fedi! so @Drand@techhub.social, given this activity is sourced from an IP with your name on it, could you share the purpose of this traffic? what data is being collected and how is it being used? do you plan to respect robots.txt or identify yourself in your useragent? is there a process for instance admins to opt out of this activity other than blocking the source IP?
(DIR) Post #AcWKgGIh3zzM9igAts by meowski@fluf.club
2023-12-06T03:45:06.328667Z
10 likes, 0 repeats
@natalie what a fag
(DIR) Post #AcWSUqIUCbRRxJeEjI by tomo@fedi.azumanga.gay
2023-12-06T05:12:32.153942Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@natalie lol hammered my profile several times a secondeasy block with ufw
(DIR) Post #AcWSw3VbBrJgkVl1sm by tomo@fedi.azumanga.gay
2023-12-06T05:17:28.757305Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@natalie 404s don't stop it eitherused to run an instance on my domain root but i just have a personal site there now but it kept hammering that
(DIR) Post #AcWcib7mPT5gUhq0mG by natalie@nya.social
2023-12-06T07:07:10.965Z
2 likes, 0 repeats
for those who have checked logs on their instances, could you share the dates when the activity started? on this instance, the first record i have is from 2023/11/29, steadily ramping up since then
(DIR) Post #AcWf63FKDh8uHTg7lY by dashie@nya.otter.sh
2023-12-06T07:33:16Z
1 likes, 1 repeats
@natalie first access I have from this IP on my public instance is[24/Nov/2023:19:39:06 +0100] "GET /api/v1/instance HTTP/1.1"at ~4 minutes interval 3 times, then seems to have loaded some js/css/fonts the 25, scrapped the public timeline on the 28 multiple times and started scrapping users the 29more or less the same behavior on this instance
(DIR) Post #AcWiVmEqNPaivLPb04 by me@mastodon.cysioland.pl
2023-12-06T08:11:21Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@natalie @Drand found it in my logs, with UA string "unshortenit 0.4.0", it only asked for my profile and nothing else. I'm running behind Cloudflare so maybe they started dropping him at some point.
(DIR) Post #AcWiVn8r1AOVj3cKIq by natalie@nya.social
2023-12-06T08:12:02.766Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@me@mastodon.cysioland.pl @Drand@techhub.social that is quite possible, i only saw the unshortenit useragent after it had tried and failed on urllib UA
(DIR) Post #AcWj53Gv2RjDt6CdMm by me@mastodon.cysioland.pl
2023-12-06T08:14:12Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@natalie @Drand grepped my older logs and he's been trying with a variety of user agents, including browser-like ones
(DIR) Post #AcWj56wVOHmBGwgO6S by me@mastodon.cysioland.pl
2023-12-06T08:18:13Z
2 likes, 3 repeats
@natalie @Drand FWIW checking my Cloudflare logs, they caught up to him at some point
(DIR) Post #AcWl6pVlN32NhJ7b8a by astenix@blob.cat
2023-12-06T08:26:17.352888Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
cc @Jain you should block this idiot@natalie
(DIR) Post #AcWm5VaS406PZGFSk4 by kittenlikeasmallcat@social.xenofem.me
2023-12-06T08:52:06.602862Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@natalie @Drand @nyx
(DIR) Post #AcWmALBg9kXclIxumO by gaige@neue.city
2023-12-06T08:53:03.447029Z
3 likes, 1 repeats
@natalie started here, according to my logs/var/log/nginx/access.log.1:18.4.38.176 - - [05/Dec/2023:16:09:56 +0100] "GET /users/gaige HTTP/1.1" 200 2573 "-" "Python-urllib/3.9"for some reason only scraped my account, and nothing else :02wut:
(DIR) Post #AcWmcb4Uh1nm8N4uoq by gaige@neue.city
2023-12-06T08:58:10.182215Z
1 likes, 1 repeats
@natalie also, it seems to have completely ignored my peertube and funkwhale instances
(DIR) Post #AcWnBUzLIlUZP3JMEC by alyx@frogs.lgbt
2023-12-06T09:04:12Z
1 likes, 1 repeats
@natalie I see as early as Nov 25th, but it's been mostly quiet other than a sizable burst in requests for the public timeline on that day
(DIR) Post #AcWpVvlTeoJ09GhENk by vaartis@pl.kotobank.ch
2023-12-06T09:32:21.701942Z
3 likes, 1 repeats
@natalie earliest one for me is 02/Dec/2023:18:45:36 and it seemed to have stopped on 3rd after 3344 requests to my profile and the profile of the only other active user on my instance, the user agent was "Python-urllib/3.9". Actually, now it seems like they're trying to connect via IPv6 which I have explicitly disabled so nginx is giving them a connection refused error, clearly that does not stop them because the last request was about 2 hours ago
(DIR) Post #AcWpi3rrMAEgkpSwjY by joshix@fosspri.de
2023-12-06T09:31:20Z
2 likes, 0 repeats
@natalie @Drand I don't log ip addresses but I've got today (~last 10 hours) 684 requests from someone with a "Python-urllib/3.9" User-Agent
(DIR) Post #AcWyGQBzewFZTLmKHY by dushman@den.raccoon.quest
2023-12-06T11:08:35.515Z
3 likes, 1 repeats
@natalie@nya.social @Drand@techhub.social Yeah I'm blocking this IP
(DIR) Post #AcWyQT91XR3BWYBFeC by Hyolobrika@social.fbxl.net
2023-12-06T11:10:27.125840Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
It probably won't help much. He can get your posts etc from other servers you federate to.
(DIR) Post #AcWySAbhQnNSbtP8QC by dushman@den.raccoon.quest
2023-12-06T11:10:45.050Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@natalie@nya.social Earliest one here is from 03/Dec/2023:03:33:07 going up until I blocked it just now. Like 4k requests.
(DIR) Post #AcWyWBlv2gVHNh6JQ8 by getimiskon@fedi.getimiskon.xyz
2023-12-06T11:11:28.892222Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@dushman blocked from my server as well
(DIR) Post #AcWyWNFkM7tmzO8mwK by dushman@den.raccoon.quest
2023-12-06T11:11:30.996Z
5 likes, 1 repeats
@Hyolobrika@social.fbxl.net Oh that is not the point. Bitch is loading the server with thousands of requests. @Drand@techhub.social Choke on a fat cock.
(DIR) Post #AcWyjh7pmYMeO2n8Hg by dushman@den.raccoon.quest
2023-12-06T11:13:54.720Z
3 likes, 0 repeats
@Hyolobrika@social.fbxl.net Everything I post is public information I'm well aware lol
(DIR) Post #AcWzDCGF6EqlLlnAoq by afouxenidis@mastodon.world
2023-12-06T08:42:11Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@natalie thanx for the info, this is quite serious
(DIR) Post #AcWzK8ZFELY3vDzQ8W by Moon@shitposter.club
2023-12-06T11:20:23.060858Z
13 likes, 3 repeats
@natalie @Drand this bot is remarkably poorly-behaved, it has scraped my user @coolboymew over 800 times in a day, among other users.
(DIR) Post #AcWze9eot6O95t8tcW by pomstan@xn--p1abe3d.xn--80asehdb
2023-12-06T11:24:02.815213Z
7 likes, 1 repeats
@Moon @natalie @coolboymew what an absolute NIGGER"federated moderation in mastadon network" for $210k and shithead can't even set a proper user agent
(DIR) Post #AcX02C2lfQsPRdo3oO by ilja@ilja.space
2023-12-06T11:28:24.955546Z
1 likes, 2 repeats
@natalie First request of IP 18.4.38.176 that I find is18.4.38.176 - - [24/Nov/2023:21:08:06 +0100] "GET /api/v1/instance HTTP/1.1" 200 7022 "-" "python-requests/2.31.0"Then a whole bunch nothing, until18.4.38.176 - - [27/Nov/2023:17:07:19 +0100] "GET /about HTTP/2.0" 200 948 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/119.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"I rotate logs, the oldest request I have in my logs, is 22/Nov/2023:23:57:40 +0100, so if they did calls before that, I won’t know.For those interested, this are the main commands I used (zgrep is to grep through zipped files)ls /var/log/nginx/ilja.space-access.log*zgrep '18.4.38.176' /var/log/nginx/ilja.space-access.log* | lessIf interested, I dumped it in a file for future reference. I’m unsure if there’s information in there I don’t want to share, but if you’re interested, I could go through it and share it if nothing is in there that I don’t want to share.
(DIR) Post #AcX1A8OJEOU0O5EUNM by ilja@ilja.space
2023-12-06T11:41:01.478296Z
10 likes, 2 repeats
@natalie btw, for any one interested, I now redirect the requests to an audio stream :heheevil: I hope the bot just keeps downloading it as random data.With nginx, let's say you have an audio stream, or just a big file, on https://example.com/big_thingy, then you can redirect as such if ( $remote_addr ~* '18.4.38.176' ) { return 302 https://example.com/big_thingy; }I tested it with my own IP, it worked \o/
(DIR) Post #AcX1W0bIsOaYb3k0tE by ChristopherBRobin@iddqd.social
2023-12-06T11:45:04.257401Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@NEETzsche you seeing this shit?
(DIR) Post #AcX1jGOdSYsDLo8VGa by lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
2023-12-06T11:46:55.544743Z
6 likes, 2 repeats
@ilja @natalie One that could be interesting as well is a gzip-bomb, for example 10GB of zeroes compresses down to 10MB via gzip-9.More modern algorithms might be even more efficient at compressing zeroes.
(DIR) Post #AcX25Xwkt9jS9XikgC by ilja@ilja.space
2023-12-06T11:51:19.526055Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@lanodan @natalie i don't know enough about these things, but i would definitely like to be able to annoy them as much as possible without being a burden on others (like who hosts the stream/big file I use)
(DIR) Post #AcX32IlixmW0AHZslE by istvan@noagendasocial.com
2023-12-06T12:02:06Z
19 likes, 3 repeats
@Moon @natalie @coolboymew @Drand > it has scraped my user @coolboymew over 800 times in a day,He is DETERMINED not to miss a single waifu.
(DIR) Post #AcX4Qz3FVbfcCr6lAu by iska@catposter.club
2023-12-06T12:17:37.322Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me @ilja@ilja.space @natalie@nya.social that was already done https://gitlab.com/Theemacsshibe/magrathea
(DIR) Post #AcX4tZbDDbjFfKcu80 by lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
2023-12-06T12:22:25.116292Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@iska @natalie @ilja I know, it's an old trick against crawlers and other bad software that pre-dates even gzip (as there were particularly bad implementations of unix compress(1)).
(DIR) Post #AcX5GvjR60gQy9buym by aliss@outerheaven.club
2023-12-06T12:27:08.994513Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@ilja lovely :celredcrystalheart:
(DIR) Post #AcX5Is6zWgpMJxYQM4 by BobRoss@nationalist.social
2023-12-06T12:27:05.649250Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@natalie @Drand fix your bot you nigger faggot
(DIR) Post #AcX6Y06eBXvtPgAfj6 by agora_brewing@thebag.social
2023-12-06T12:41:26.886293Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@natalie @Drand CC: @ademan
(DIR) Post #AcX7VGLZRitertPT4C by lena@social.nihil.gay
2023-12-06T12:51:02.766662Z
2 likes, 0 repeats
@lanodan @ilja @natalie gzip an xml bomb followed by 10GiB of NULs, and then append another 10GiB of NULs and gzip that as well.then set application/xml, with both Content-encoding and Transfer-encoding set to gzip.will try it out later
(DIR) Post #AcX8ft4aPzulpD5zGa by ic3l9@shitposter.club
2023-12-06T12:59:33.897781Z
6 likes, 1 repeats
@Moon @natalie @Drand @coolboymew desperately looking for big tiddy aneemays, purely for research purposes
(DIR) Post #AcXAB172g2glgseTj6 by threat@shitposter.club
2023-12-06T13:22:07.758588Z
3 likes, 2 repeats
@lena @ilja @natalie @lanodan this works but also many fun tricks to do with reverse proxy. redirect based on ip || user agent to:- his own not- mit website - mossad website - fsb website - insert interesting website here
(DIR) Post #AcXABrzm3nMnhgevFw by sjw@bae.st
2023-12-06T13:22:16.393225Z
1 likes, 1 repeats
@natalie @Drand alright I've blocked the IP
(DIR) Post #AcXAMDUmyg2xHV6F5k by Drand@techhub.social
2023-12-06T13:20:23Z
7 likes, 7 repeats
@natalie Hi all, apologies for this, I didn't realize the bot was being poorly behaved - we've now stopped it. In terms of why we were doing the scraping, we are doing research on how content moderation policies vary across servers, and how this can help inform the Fediverse more broadly about effective approaches to content moderation. You can get more of a sense of the kind of research we do here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1k2D4zVqkSHB1M9wpXtAe3UzbeE0RPpD_E2UpaPf6Lds/edit?usp=sharingSorry again about causing problems for folks! (And thanks to a couple of people for emailing me to let me know about this)
(DIR) Post #AcXAfDrXpyCDvCo36m by lena@social.nihil.gay
2023-12-06T13:23:55.707432Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@threat @ilja @natalie @lanodan yeah I’ll try that later, I’m currently in uni trying to implement proper metrics ssh’d from termux…
(DIR) Post #AcXAqXVr7Pxm3E3dlQ by hakui@tuusin.misono-ya.info
2023-12-06T13:29:37.557478Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@ilja @natalie time to serve chen.png at him
(DIR) Post #AcXBLGHBFp8rZMqJs0 by NEETzsche@iddqd.social
2023-12-06T13:35:04.519419Z
2 likes, 0 repeats
Yes, and my solution is to IP ban his bot from my instance at the nginx level lol
(DIR) Post #AcXC7lkDYi4l4CYT6e by teknomunk@apogee.polaris-1.work
2023-12-06T13:43:43Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@NEETzsche @ChristopherBRobin @natalie @Drand I used an iptables rule on my reverse proxy to block.
(DIR) Post #AcXCBsDPRULgIIAMs4 by NEETzsche@iddqd.social
2023-12-06T13:44:38.150351Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
Can you show me how those work? I’m retarded.
(DIR) Post #AcXCpA0tCflKmt2lYe by lena@social.nihil.gay
2023-12-06T13:01:42.123031Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@lanodan @ilja @natalie we could also try to do network resource exhaustion on his end by waiting a long time and sending data very slowly, but you’d have to be careful about not binding up your own serverblackholing connections may work too, hmm
(DIR) Post #AcXDH9xN0YRqigkT5c by p@freespeechextremist.com
2023-12-06T13:56:51.674399Z
39 likes, 12 repeats
@natalie @Drand @graf He's been hammering the shit out of FSE, also.aaronsw killed himself because he bulk-scraped some academic papers from MIT and MIT had him arrested and the federal prosecutor wanted 35 years for exceeding authorized access under the CFAA. So, now, MIT faculty member David Rand is exceeding authorized access in order to produce more academic papers for MIT. I wonder: if he produces a paper by scraping and then someone scrapes that paper, what happens?> seems he's doing research into "misinformation" and "fake news" on social media.He's a Professor of Marketing in the Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department at Sloan. It is safe to reason that (1) he is a psychopath, (2) he has no idea how any of the technical shit works and has a grad student doing it, the grad student in turn having hired an engineer undergrad.> is there a process for instance admins to opt out of this activityI guess, per his faculty page, you could just call him, or perhaps email him. Despite scraping FSE, he has chosen an instance that blocks FSE.
(DIR) Post #AcXFKIgxBeG0aYhAR6 by CumskinFoidPuncher69420@beefyboys.win
2023-12-06T14:19:42.417904Z
7 likes, 3 repeats
Imagine clicking this academic stooge's Google doc link lmao
(DIR) Post #AcXFPWTLNXsymAosCm by boody@techhub.social
2023-12-06T14:16:58Z
4 likes, 1 repeats
@Drand @natalie I can't reply to you because, although you are happy to scrape my instance, you have chosen an instance that blocks me.I am skeptical that "researching content moderation policies" is an accurate way to describe what you are doing: I have not been asked about my content moderation policies. And how are you going to determine whether a given piece of content is in violation of an instance's policy if you don't even know whether the moderators have seen it? If you are interested in misinformation, you may wish to join or operate an instance that ensures that you can interact with the people you are exploiting for your career.Can you explain whether or not you told the IRB that you were going to reimburse me for my bandwidth overages? Also, when I am done going through my logs to finish figuring out whose posts you have scraped and I notify them, where should I send them to request the removal of their posts from your dataset without compromising their anonymity?
(DIR) Post #AcXFzfZX1VOlQJwxTk by p@freespeechextremist.com
2023-12-06T14:27:18.923591Z
6 likes, 0 repeats
@boody @Drand @natalie (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)userwascannedforthisroast.png
(DIR) Post #AcXGHryLerUH5wEhlY by graf@poa.st
2023-12-06T14:30:34.667418Z
13 likes, 6 repeats
@p @natalie @Drand @boody lmfao
(DIR) Post #AcXGOYX4KlFgpVfHMW by vriska@lizards.live
2023-12-06T14:31:43Z
5 likes, 1 repeats
@Drand @natalie welcome to the defed list
(DIR) Post #AcXGeAF8PO4i8Cicng by p@raru.re
2023-12-06T14:34:36Z
4 likes, 0 repeats
what's the bet he's mapping out the "threat landscape" in actuality?@p@freespeechextremist.com
(DIR) Post #AcXGq30l7dULB2f3DM by p@raru.re
2023-12-06T14:36:45Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
> He focuses on illuminating why people believe and share misinformation and “fake newsHis opinion thereof. @natalie @Drand
(DIR) Post #AcXH2hMqu703ob1lUu by p@raru.re
2023-12-06T14:39:01Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
gross@Drand @natalie
(DIR) Post #AcXHDEVcXX0zUt9UK8 by milk@poa.st
2023-12-06T14:40:57.590796Z
5 likes, 1 repeats
@graf @p @natalie @Drand @boody This is the 'misinfo study' he's working on that he linked (degoogled) https://archive.is/7FkVC
(DIR) Post #AcXHDTHdbnk7Jrj26y by iron_bug@friendica.ironbug.org
2023-12-06T14:38:54Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
I сonfirm it. banned. I think it may be connected to this issue I had seen today:https://poa.st/objects/3779a0df-93e1-4ddb-a5b6-213334c8e8c1same UA string.
(DIR) Post #AcXHJ3QSeyO6rQVxtw by Saber@mugicha.club
2023-12-06T14:42:00.645422Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
Cc @nozaki FYI in case you haven't seen this yet
(DIR) Post #AcXHKYmJZs7yO8SENM by p@freespeechextremist.com
2023-12-06T14:42:17.753598Z
2 likes, 2 repeats
@Moon @natalie @Drand @coolboymew Same here. Incidentally, he has apparently screwed up some of his links, so his bot is fetching URLs like "GET /signin%3C/a%3E%3Cbr/%3E%3Cbr/%3EYang HTTP/1.1", "GET /about%3C/a%3E%3Cbr/%3ELooks HTTP/1.1", "/notice/ACV7evq9u0cd7bBo1Y%3C/a%3E".Incidentally, he was scraping some Spinster user's profile from FSE, @Piss_Ant.
(DIR) Post #AcXHMW12oqo2OrHCdM by kf01@breastmilk.club
2023-12-06T14:42:38.138877Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@natalie Cc: @marine
(DIR) Post #AcXHXAIvslH8FSio9A by graf@poa.st
2023-12-06T14:44:32.818250Z
4 likes, 0 repeats
@p @Moon @natalie @coolboymew @Piss_Ant @Drand the only links here was /users/username. no posts or anything
(DIR) Post #AcXHepAsKK4D21ba2C by p@freespeechextremist.com
2023-12-06T14:45:57.490913Z
2 likes, 0 repeats
@graf @natalie @Drand @boody I don't believe I violated any of the rules in that post. :cryingcat:
(DIR) Post #AcXHgGXe3sAACPwWNk by CumskinFoidPuncher69420@beefyboys.win
2023-12-06T14:46:03.266402Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
> I can't reply to you because, although you are happy to scrape my instance, you have chosen an instance that blocks me.As have you
(DIR) Post #AcXHiFAW8ZkOWJ4HuS by p@freespeechextremist.com
2023-12-06T14:46:34.571166Z
3 likes, 1 repeats
@p Oh, you should look at the titles of some of his papers.
(DIR) Post #AcXHlxvGCRncBshrhQ by CassandraZeroCovid@mastodon.social
2023-12-06T14:11:33Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@tomo @natalie What is ufw? Is a regular block sufficient. or do I need to block the entire domain?
(DIR) Post #AcXHlyh7KW52aJ65IG by tomo@fedi.azumanga.gay
2023-12-06T14:47:04.735557Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@CassandraZeroCovid @natalie ufw is a firewalli just made it deny all traffic from that ip
(DIR) Post #AcXHuoHXPfEOtfLOVM by graf@poa.st
2023-12-06T14:48:49.910916Z
5 likes, 1 repeats
@p @natalie @Drand @boody I believe putting people on the spot, singling out or otherwise making somebody have to answer for something is against Mastodon ethos. it's baked in the CoC
(DIR) Post #AcXHvHwf7qMGtbo98C by Suzu@varishangout.net
2023-12-06T14:48:51.474882Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@vriska @Drand @natalie tagging @Halo in this shit, just in case you notice some bot hammering the instance, só you know wtf is happening.
(DIR) Post #AcXIefeto2B9TP8h7o by laurel@freespeechextremist.com
2023-12-06T14:57:08.130396Z
15 likes, 3 repeats
@p @natalie @Drand @graf >MITStill too retarded to setup an instance and just follow people.
(DIR) Post #AcXIgnv63tZFfrjUhM by p@raru.re
2023-12-06T14:57:30Z
3 likes, 0 repeats
gotta look out for those luggen presses@p@freespeechextremist.com
(DIR) Post #AcXJ2ZLev3MoqtXFtA by PurpCat@clubcyberia.co
2023-12-06T15:01:22.155668Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@natalie yo @p @graf looks like we got another "researcher" to add to the IP blackhole
(DIR) Post #AcXJ6QLELg2A4mAmu0 by PurpCat@clubcyberia.co
2023-12-06T15:02:04.461592Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@graf @p @natalie @Drand @boody total researcher blackhole
(DIR) Post #AcXJ8VhhNlejHog3Ki by coolboymew@shitposter.club
2023-12-06T15:02:29.039118Z
10 likes, 0 repeats
@Moon @natalie @Drand bruhThis reminds me I'm not posting enough futas for the nice people at the MIT
(DIR) Post #AcXJEZMQhO3UMjcNNo by PurpCat@clubcyberia.co
2023-12-06T15:03:31.923349Z
3 likes, 0 repeats
@Drand @natalie why not get a real job that contributes to humanity like dropping 10:1s
(DIR) Post #AcXJGGB2zgL7Rq6Gie by atlas@thonkbox.rightmouse.click
2023-12-06T14:12:01.174374Z
4 likes, 2 repeats
@DrandSpeaking for myself, I appreciate the clarification and short explanation, as otherwise this can be perceived quite simply as an attack with no true proper reason.One question, though. Yes, I acknowledge that information on my instance is public and I do not intend to intensely restrict access to it (as there is quite simply no good reason or way to do so without extensive compromises), but this does not explain why the bot needs access to either the public timelines or specific user accounts if it is just searching the vaguely-identified "content moderation policies." For convenience, I'm not going to question the relevance or possibility of moderation in a federated network, as it's quite simply irrelevant right now.There is a lot of ambiguity in that regard so rather than making assumptions, I'd rather ask: what's up with that? How is the information there relevant? (and also, why are single-user instances, like mine, that only have very few users, relevant to this as well, and is there a way to opt out?)
(DIR) Post #AcXJMdITwnzMtHcHeC by p@freespeechextremist.com
2023-12-06T15:05:04.833147Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@graf @natalie @Drand @boody Actually, scratch that, it looks like I wasn't banned, just Cloudflare periodically tossing 403s at me.
(DIR) Post #AcXJQSYznT1Gl8AJn6 by PurpCat@clubcyberia.co
2023-12-06T15:05:40.891050Z
8 likes, 2 repeats
@milk @p @natalie @graf @Drand @boody this is the cancer killing the internet nice
(DIR) Post #AcXJZJWUmIE3KMDZc8 by Silverwolf@nicecrew.digital
2023-12-06T15:07:21.281871Z
3 likes, 0 repeats
I wonder how often it goes after @justnormalkorean
(DIR) Post #AcXJZPROm9iJgHsaVE by Tsuki@amami.paradigm-x.tokyo
2023-12-06T15:07:22.267612Z
2 likes, 0 repeats
clearly he is a love live fan
(DIR) Post #AcXJlxf7MqxhI8HWts by milk@poa.st
2023-12-06T15:09:38.322804Z
10 likes, 2 repeats
@PurpCat @p @natalie @graf @boody I'll post what I said in my mod chatroom. While fedi is comprised of lots of shitposting, i believe studies like these are a way to delegitimize anything posted as misinformation. these types like @Drand see themselves as authority of informationif they are able to convince people that nothing on the fediverse is serious, it bolsters places that are sanctioned by the authorities of informationlike X...and the reason why X is sanctioned and endorsed by them and other kikes is because the ADL control the flow of informationX, the ADL, academia are worried that "freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom of reach" will eventually upset peoplefediverse poses a threat, always has
(DIR) Post #AcXJswhDMGv6K1aome by istvan@noagendasocial.com
2023-12-06T15:10:54Z
2 likes, 0 repeats
@Silverwolf @natalie @justnormalkorean @coolboymew @Moon @Drand I can't imagine what bae.st is spending on bandwidth if he's going after the waifu bots.
(DIR) Post #AcXJxYeGC6UdBgPUsy by internetfreak@poa.st
2023-12-06T15:11:44.970849Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@natalie @Drand It's OK for me to suggest that machine scanning be found and smashed right?
(DIR) Post #AcXK2LEJVlD71DYTB2 by PurpCat@clubcyberia.co
2023-12-06T15:12:27.723877Z
4 likes, 0 repeats
@milk @p @natalie @graf @Drand @boody more importantly the quality users are leaving Twitter either because of musk derangement syndrome (twitter assfucking users now has a name and face), or because of bans/censorship, or fatigue with people of gender.This is definitely scaring many.
(DIR) Post #AcXKOgGJzgl8cW985o by burner@norwoodzero.net
2023-12-06T15:16:38.550939Z
3 likes, 0 repeats
I find it genuinely impossible to converse with normalfags onlineI just have nothing in common with them anymore
(DIR) Post #AcXKa1lqMmgUVrIjKK by PurpCat@clubcyberia.co
2023-12-06T15:18:36.072116Z
3 likes, 0 repeats
@burner @p @natalie @graf @milk @Drand @boody it's so much worse on bsky for example.It's where the catladies who listen to NPR and thom Hartmann and political theater about how trump is Hitler 2 go to bitch about trump and furries think they're being genocided.
(DIR) Post #AcXL1w3jCAvSuIyRO4 by internetfreak@poa.st
2023-12-06T15:23:44.766245Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@milk @PurpCat @p @natalie @graf @Drand @boody His page is just the same two posts repeated over and over again
(DIR) Post #AcXL6T4UOlV4S2UW5Q by amerika@noagendasocial.com
2023-12-06T15:24:33Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@natalie @Drand You can also reach him at:https://noagendasocial.com/@natalie@nya.social/111531280598873048His personal domain name is hilarious:http://davidrand-cooperation.com/Personally, I am glad to see people researching the #Fediverse, having come from the #freespeech wing of the #BBS movement back in the 1980s.Maybe we should reach out to him nicely with some suggestions about how to make a well-behaved bot?
(DIR) Post #AcXL6zUTrfIwzutj2e by vic@seal.cafe
2023-12-06T15:24:38.968120Z
4 likes, 0 repeats
@PurpCat @p @natalie @graf @milk @Drand @boody Twitter is an intel collection and influence platform and nothing more. There is no other logical reason why it is still operational; ad revenue doesn't cut it, and their stock value has always been dismal.Elon was sent in to bring the right, who had been mass-censored and banned by the overzealous previous management, back into the platform so that they can be monitored and influenced more easily.
(DIR) Post #AcXL7BMPjTyxoNDS8O by graf@poa.st
2023-12-06T15:24:40.723593Z
4 likes, 0 repeats
@mischievoustomato @PurpCat @p @natalie @milk @Drand @boody bet 85% of the lemmy people went back to reddit and lemmy is a ghost town now
(DIR) Post #AcXLTIevHGPaonQ5pI by laurel@freespeechextremist.com
2023-12-06T15:28:41.730966Z
7 likes, 1 repeats
@Drand @natalie Carefull with that link.go*gle docs links leak your g*ail account if you logged in (in the case you are naive enough to have one)niggerniggerniggerniggernigger
(DIR) Post #AcXLg08vQn259kVfM0 by burner@norwoodzero.net
2023-12-06T15:30:58.711507Z
6 likes, 0 repeats
fuck off kike, let people run their communities how they want.
(DIR) Post #AcXLrpWKkcIDgc6D6e by NEETzsche@iddqd.social
2023-12-06T15:33:05.016736Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
tfw a nigger has a realer job than you
(DIR) Post #AcXLuY8PqaZsdNCzmy by caekislove@gleasonator.com
2023-12-06T15:33:35.489813Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@Drand @natalie This is what your tuition is paying for, kids.
(DIR) Post #AcXLvu0rzQS8mIK9gm by PurpCat@clubcyberia.co
2023-12-06T15:33:47.866429Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@NEETzsche @natalie @Drand I hope he drinks Panera charged lemonade
(DIR) Post #AcXMIZM2xnDdMq2PGC by berkberkman@bae.st
2023-12-06T15:37:57.324976Z
4 likes, 0 repeats
@caekislove @natalie @Drand Getting rejected to going to MIT after high school was a blessing in disguise.
(DIR) Post #AcXQNE5LrwjWfNhlaK by privateger@plasmatrap.com
2023-12-06T08:55:56.818Z
3 likes, 0 repeats
@natalie@nya.social @Drand@techhub.social sent him to tarpit :ablobfoxbongohyper:
(DIR) Post #AcXSE2BqvRKB4nUSwa by jazzilla@noagendasocial.com
2023-12-06T16:44:21Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@eriner
(DIR) Post #AcXTZ4YtP2bcT1rYZs by kirby@lab.nyanide.com
2023-12-06T16:59:12.051846Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@natalie @Drand was just gonna say "who the fuck cares" but if my man is making me pay like an extra dollar for his spam im gonna have to bother doin somethin about that :happey:
(DIR) Post #AcXTnPPkfcWRC7QJFo by kirby@lab.nyanide.com
2023-12-06T17:01:52.605173Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@Drand @natalie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAA1xgTTw9w
(DIR) Post #AcXVD3YqduaOtvTIrQ by p@freespeechextremist.com
2023-12-06T17:17:48.601711Z
2 likes, 0 repeats
@laurel @Drand @graf @natalie Or even relay endpoints. And if you make your relay endpoint follow people, sometimes the other server doesn't even report the follow.
(DIR) Post #AcXVrpDerzjIIH04o4 by r000t@ligma.pro
2023-12-06T17:25:09Z
3 likes, 2 repeats
@laurel @p @natalie @graf @Drand Honestly, I gotta make a generic library for this so people do it right, and then me doing it looks just like "approved" people doing it
(DIR) Post #AcXWtT2QPTO8285p8i by istvan@noagendasocial.com
2023-12-06T17:36:40Z
2 likes, 0 repeats
@r000t @laurel @p @natalie @graf @Drand Artist interpretation of the social engineer calling to announce he is a social engineer.
(DIR) Post #AcXX62ElMn7qfyrB1U by istvan@noagendasocial.com
2023-12-06T17:38:56Z
2 likes, 0 repeats
@laurel @p @natalie @graf @Drand There is a reason persons call it Morons In Training.
(DIR) Post #AcXXSgjpSuCweuBoMy by pyrate@nicecrew.digital
2023-12-06T17:43:01.685866Z
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This, we will chose how to moderate our own private communities how we see fit. There was never a discussion of conforming to the censorship protocols of large social medial providers. Thank you friend.
(DIR) Post #AcXXVblWPU6o6ZNDdY by lamp@kitty.haus
2023-12-06T17:43:29.776115Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@coolboymew is @Moon?
(DIR) Post #AcXZtcY1Lx7dOCdWBE by thendrix@social.hendrixgames.com
2023-12-06T18:10:18.526238Z
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While here do you care to state your opinion on this topic? Do you support Israeli or Palestinian genocide?https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/12/06/nolte-harvard-penn-mit-presidents-refuse-say-calls-jewish-genocide-violate-school-policy/
(DIR) Post #AcXeIylqGWNnMvRrhA by nick@pech.tech
2023-12-06T18:59:41.984318Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@natalie bit late, but whatever2023/11/28: first contact via mastodonpy and afterwards browsing static content via Chrome 119 on Windows 10 (???)2023/11/29: first traffic from the urllib bot
(DIR) Post #AcXla8vwQsvzUTItvM by Will2Power@poa.st
2023-12-06T20:21:15.509325Z
2 likes, 0 repeats
@Drand @natalie
(DIR) Post #AcXn1Zs6U9beoJ9dHU by screwdriver@suya.place
2023-12-06T11:31:14.672225Z
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cc @a1ba@natalie
(DIR) Post #AcXn1abTlRu152Ns0W by screwdriver@suya.place
2023-12-06T17:09:31.709942Z
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@a1ba кстати, на этом инстансе же необходима авторизация, но интересно сколько раз сюда этот айпишник стучал?
(DIR) Post #AcXn1bbW2nWgBRPPhg by a1ba@suya.place
2023-12-06T20:37:04.777494Z
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@screwdriver нужна.Но я не храню логи доступа, так что
(DIR) Post #AcXxZdwqpmh0qDG1i4 by PamelaDrew@gigaohm.bio
2023-12-06T16:50:06.142266Z
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Fab find!! Matt Taibbi has been reporting on the user facing elements of disinformation machinery maybe reach out to him to look at intersections.. any problem making contact w source material ping me to get it passed along. :~) https://www.racket.news/p/cti-files-4-the-hamilton-68-connection?utm_campaign=email-post&r=b2vhz&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
(DIR) Post #AcXxZepnXUe3acxuM4 by Watcherbee9@gigaohm.bio
2023-12-06T20:58:08.375101Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
I like what Taibbi says here: “…the era of one-stop marketing on Twitter/X is over. The new formula will be Threads on this site [Substack], followed by explanatory livestreams.”Wondering if a similar formula might work for @jjcouey using helper-Ohmies with subject-matter understanding and good writing skills: live stream by JJ followed by explanatory post on Substack.
(DIR) Post #AcY1CjCHYJqwHCnthY by blackfacehitler@poa.st
2023-12-06T23:16:18.298804Z
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@graf @p @natalie @Drand @boody what the hell is this nigger drama, lmao
(DIR) Post #AcY36ctEI25Qsy6tt2 by p@freespeechextremist.com
2023-12-06T23:37:37.124683Z
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@istvan @laurel @natalie @graf @Drand Well, this guy is the Sloan School of Business. Different crowd. (In fact, the rest of the crowd is a different crowd now that Microsoft bought up the CS department.)
(DIR) Post #AcYPIRTkjt4LxhEWQK by Owl@poa.st
2023-12-07T03:46:15.299201Z
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@Drand @natalie Thousands of times, cocksucker. Disproportionately so. We saw the list of keywords too.
(DIR) Post #AcYPPbq6cKla7b6duK by pyrate@nicecrew.digital
2023-12-07T03:47:32.611910Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
Cute he assumes we need their help.
(DIR) Post #AcYQBbLrjYreVbqVwe by Owl@poa.st
2023-12-07T03:56:13.764925Z
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@pyrate @natalie @Drand Well we're but ignorant cavemen to these civilized, proper and "good" people, don't you know.
(DIR) Post #AcYQHuhKiZMUFPtgBs by professionalbigot69@poa.st
2023-12-07T03:57:22.096995Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@Owl kill yoursellf@pyrate @natalie @Drand
(DIR) Post #AcYQgLPf2mPc3KHSTo by pyrate@nicecrew.digital
2023-12-07T04:01:45.869217Z
1 likes, 1 repeats
@Owl @natalieIts the arrogance and condescending behavior that has always unsettled me. Fair is fair though. Perhaps the establishment of our own information repositories, institutions and research efforts should be a response.
(DIR) Post #AcYQj8WjPTrSxLv31E by Owl@poa.st
2023-12-07T04:02:17.404971Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@pyrate @natalie The parallel society is necessary.
(DIR) Post #AcYRD8gzMLFI9n1VEu by pyrate@nicecrew.digital
2023-12-07T04:07:41.978695Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@Owl @natalie yes, and at every position. We should be taking care of our people.
(DIR) Post #AcYSLzqRiu3RHGEaNk by ceo_of_monoeye_dating@bae.st
2023-12-07T04:20:30.396527Z
3 likes, 0 repeats
@Drand @natalie ok coolput these tiddies in your paper1623844581238.png
(DIR) Post #AcYSYLylFrqjOs12gq by ceo_of_monoeye_dating@bae.st
2023-12-07T04:22:44.886254Z
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@Drand @natalie these ones tooe4d4230255c20e414544c859d03f1c2d9744a58864e65d0c7345b189bab4c26a.png
(DIR) Post #AcYSnR3ieMNNV0WhjE by judgedread@freespeechextremist.com
2023-12-07T04:25:28.859087Z
5 likes, 1 repeats
@p This is the level of technical knowhow I expect from Google Scholars and MIT professors.Like seriously, not sarcasm.
(DIR) Post #AcYSz62IddpnlyQHOS by Owl@poa.st
2023-12-07T04:27:35.077333Z
2 likes, 0 repeats
@natalie @Drand @ceo_of_monoeye_dating Check this out, you'll love this.
(DIR) Post #AcYT1qzj1ENdzVX8ca by Owl@poa.st
2023-12-07T04:28:04.973704Z
1 likes, 1 repeats
@ceo_of_monoeye_dating @natalie @Drand Oh wait I'm retarded ._.
(DIR) Post #AcYT9DmOheGEgVoRnM by ceo_of_monoeye_dating@bae.st
2023-12-07T04:29:24.679326Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@Owl @natalie @Drand I do love it, it's why I posted it.
(DIR) Post #AcYTWl1PHABARZ3XFY by anonymous@freespeechextremist.com
2023-12-07T04:33:40.311649Z
4 likes, 1 repeats
@p @p I’d be willing to bet money thatit’s going to be used as an excuse to expand the fediblockit’s going to be used as an excuse for more internet censorship
(DIR) Post #AcZNufD08Q8MnXSID2 by CatLord@poa.st
2023-12-07T15:05:28.124028Z
2 likes, 0 repeats
@istvan @Moon @natalie @coolboymew @Drand which is your favourite anime girl?
(DIR) Post #AcZQuMpikovffb7HSy by istvan@noagendasocial.com
2023-12-07T15:39:01Z
3 likes, 0 repeats
@CatLord @natalie @coolboymew @Moon @Drand
(DIR) Post #AcZYqxk2O4JKc8LUGG by DutchBoomerMan@freespeechextremist.com
2023-12-07T17:08:03.592376Z
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@natalie @Drand My Country still have Freedom of speech in the constitutionMybe if your an Angloid Gemavoid or a Potato Nigger you should be careful what you post for a couple days im guessingprobably some asshat Journo doing a Hit peace on Fedi
(DIR) Post #AcZaYE11r9XNUeUCmW by sarvo@novoa.nagoya
2023-12-07T17:27:03.213Z
2 likes, 1 repeats
@Drand@techhub.social @natalie@nya.social quantitative statistical research is fucking garbage and it will not give you any light at all on how the fediverse works, if you are serious about it go ahead and ask instance admins and users directly. Otherwise keep scrapping data for even more garbage papers that say nothing but shit as your whole career.
(DIR) Post #AcZdMcm0HXPifJcO5A by jeff@misinformation.wikileaks2.org
2023-12-07T17:58:21.621486Z
3 likes, 1 repeats
@sarvo @natalie @Drand misinformation is just people telling lies on the internet for fun. studying random internet user's shitposts for natsec grant money is why MIT is a fucking embarrassment and shell of it's former self. seriously, this guy is just an embarrassment.
(DIR) Post #Aca2ya4i9arGkqnzdY by p@freespeechextremist.com
2023-12-07T22:45:35.214704Z
2 likes, 1 repeats
@judgedread Yeah; bothered an MIT kid about it.:elliot: What do you know about Sloan?:oopsclumsyme: ...School of Business?:elliot: That's the one, yes.:oopsclumsyme: Scary math guys. All the statistics and econ classes are there, even undergrad.
(DIR) Post #Aca8sTQMZGCw7CP6Lw by Drand@techhub.social
2023-12-07T21:52:48Z
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@atlas Thanks for your engagement! To clarify, the data we were collecting was on what news domains people on different servers share, and how toxic the language they use is etc; and then how that relates to the formal rules the server posts. But also we would LOVE to talk admins about how they actual think about / do content moderation etc (We have talked to some already, and are def interested in more!)
(DIR) Post #Aca8sVTcw60UTtwjia by jeff@misinformation.wikileaks2.org
2023-12-07T23:51:27.943212Z
3 likes, 1 repeats
@Drand @atlas your instance blocks everyone, you dont want a discussion you want to collect natsec money for being a script kiddie. fix your fucking shit spider you MIT skidmark fuck and then we'll tell you how moderation works, except you wont because you're a bad faith actor.
(DIR) Post #Aca9YC6zKErMaGEeoq by jeff@misinformation.wikileaks2.org
2023-12-07T23:58:58.953470Z
1 likes, 1 repeats
@Drand @atlas also suh: 72.85.191.163
(DIR) Post #AcaESsAgXFvN3xFLAe by union@mu.zaitcev.nu
2023-12-08T00:54:17.023863Z
1 likes, 4 repeats
I'm extremely impressed how his actions are not at all evil, duplicious, or hypocritical in the mind of @Drand. I'm going to reply in-thread so that everyone can read by scrolling. It's amazing, breathtaking.@atlas
(DIR) Post #AcbEQJDphPIJFTSLiq by nicdex@techhub.social
2023-12-07T20:05:58Z
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@Drand @natalie Hi there, TechHub admin here. I would like to know more about what kind of information you collect, how you make sure to keep it private and if there is a way other than blocking the IP to opt-out. Privacy is an important concept for everyone here. Thanks.cc @Raccoon
(DIR) Post #AcbZcxMwMFCsH4aX44 by moth_ball@shitposter.club
2023-12-08T16:26:04.005743Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@Drand @atlas how about you talk to these nuts