#PSA: Y'all might want to block or defed tags.pub and tagpush.app domain, because they're bot-boosting anything with hashtags.
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@alice Especially when fedi.buzz exists and actually does things in a non-stupid, opt-in way...
@BalooUriza uh fedibuzz isn’t great either. They use the streaming endpoint in a way that it wasn’t designed for, without the consent of the server admins, federating posts to servers that the origin doesn’t know about (often from other servers), and thus things like edits and deletes don’t know to be sent to those servers that got posts from fedibuzz relays. And when the unauthenticated streaming access was closed in mastodon, they asked regular users to “donate” api keys for their servers to continue doing this. I’d argue that fedi buzz is worse than a boost bot because the users dont even know their posts are being rebroadcast in this way
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@alice How to (as a user, not a host)
That’s my biggest hurdle
@MarkBrigham @alice #NoBot in your profile is supposed to work. Super dickwad move on their part, though. We shouldn’t have to opt-out of their unasked-for “service."
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@alice How to (as a user, not a host)
That’s my biggest hurdle
@MarkBrigham search up a user from their domain, open the dot menu, select block server, confirm.
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#PSA: Y'all might want to block or defed tags.pub and tagpush.app domain, because they're bot-boosting anything with hashtags.
My recent underwear post has a boost for each hashtag on it, and fuck this bot using my AlicePics tag as a username to boost all my nudes.
People can already follow hashtags, we don't need an *opt-out* bot-swarm to make things more "discoverable".
I don't need *every* server to see my nudes. Just the ones who have my actual, human¹ followers on them.
Edit: the owner of tags.pub suggested we also block the rest of his domains: groups.pub, activitypub.bot, and onepage.pub
️¹ and furry
@alice FINALLY an explanation of what those annoying things are. Thank you. The tags started appearing on some posts a few days ago and I guessed it was some kind of fuckery.
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@Unixbigot @alice @kirtai But also FFS he's part of the SWICG. He can solve it at a standards level (it'll take time, sure), instead of doing weird hacks like this that don't solve anything at all.
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@alice FINALLY an explanation of what those annoying things are. Thank you. The tags started appearing on some posts a few days ago and I guessed it was some kind of fuckery.
@Chloeg glad I could help
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@alice I should re-enable boost notifications again. I would have caught it earlier today
️I don't understand what problem this is trying to solve exactly, since we have hashtags and they can be followed by people that are interested in them
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#PSA: Y'all might want to block or defed tags.pub and tagpush.app domain, because they're bot-boosting anything with hashtags.
My recent underwear post has a boost for each hashtag on it, and fuck this bot using my AlicePics tag as a username to boost all my nudes.
People can already follow hashtags, we don't need an *opt-out* bot-swarm to make things more "discoverable".
I don't need *every* server to see my nudes. Just the ones who have my actual, human¹ followers on them.
Edit: the owner of tags.pub suggested we also block the rest of his domains: groups.pub, activitypub.bot, and onepage.pub
️¹ and furry
@alice what an asshole ... Is blocking those domains something only admins can do?
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#PSA: Y'all might want to block or defed tags.pub and tagpush.app domain, because they're bot-boosting anything with hashtags.
My recent underwear post has a boost for each hashtag on it, and fuck this bot using my AlicePics tag as a username to boost all my nudes.
People can already follow hashtags, we don't need an *opt-out* bot-swarm to make things more "discoverable".
I don't need *every* server to see my nudes. Just the ones who have my actual, human¹ followers on them.
Edit: the owner of tags.pub suggested we also block the rest of his domains: groups.pub, activitypub.bot, and onepage.pub
️¹ and furry
@alice lmao at him proactively tell u what else u should block
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@alice what an asshole ... Is blocking those domains something only admins can do?
@fullywoolly nope, you can search up any account on those domains, then click the menu and instead of "block account@domain" choose "block domain", then confirm.
Just be careful, as it will sever any connections like follows/followers on that domain (which I don't think is a problem here
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@Unixbigot an issue to be sure, but I don't think opt-out bot swarms are the answer.
@alice can't you use like remote instances as relays? or is that only with some software? if any?
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@alice lmao at him proactively tell u what else u should block
@xyhhx gotta give him that one.
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@fullywoolly nope, you can search up any account on those domains, then click the menu and instead of "block account@domain" choose "block domain", then confirm.
Just be careful, as it will sever any connections like follows/followers on that domain (which I don't think is a problem here
).@alice cool thanks. Didn't realize I could block a whole domain. Super helpful!
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@alice can't you use like remote instances as relays? or is that only with some software? if any?
@xyhhx dunno, but apparently relays can use other relays. I'm just a pretty (obscured) face here; I leave the tech stuff to the other admins.
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@alice cool thanks. Didn't realize I could block a whole domain. Super helpful!
@fullywoolly sure thing
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@xyhhx dunno, but apparently relays can use other relays. I'm just a pretty (obscured) face here; I leave the tech stuff to the other admins.
@alice @Unixbigot @kirtai oki it will forever remain a mystery
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@alice @Unixbigot @kirtai oki it will forever remain a mystery
@alice i should've just logged into my treehouse alt....
https://social.treehouse.systems/@ariadne/116825829795599516
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#PSA: Y'all might want to block or defed tags.pub and tagpush.app domain, because they're bot-boosting anything with hashtags.
My recent underwear post has a boost for each hashtag on it, and fuck this bot using my AlicePics tag as a username to boost all my nudes.
People can already follow hashtags, we don't need an *opt-out* bot-swarm to make things more "discoverable".
I don't need *every* server to see my nudes. Just the ones who have my actual, human¹ followers on them.
Edit: the owner of tags.pub suggested we also block the rest of his domains: groups.pub, activitypub.bot, and onepage.pub
️¹ and furry
@alice The whack-a-mole begins. Off to the block list
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#PSA: Y'all might want to block or defed tags.pub and tagpush.app domain, because they're bot-boosting anything with hashtags.
My recent underwear post has a boost for each hashtag on it, and fuck this bot using my AlicePics tag as a username to boost all my nudes.
People can already follow hashtags, we don't need an *opt-out* bot-swarm to make things more "discoverable".
I don't need *every* server to see my nudes. Just the ones who have my actual, human¹ followers on them.
Edit: the owner of tags.pub suggested we also block the rest of his domains: groups.pub, activitypub.bot, and onepage.pub
️¹ and furry
@alice following hashtags only works if your instance already knows this toot by other means. There is no hashtag based push.
This works good enough on big insurances, but following hashtags is near useless on single user instances.
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