@church ah yikes, should've archived it.. good thing the page was still open on my desktop so will add some screenshots to the thread

@f0x when reading that thread i considered screenshotting it, but realised you’d probably already done so. i was right! :p

@kim well i almost didn't! once again reminded I should throw shit through an archiver before tooting an expose :")

@f0x you could set up a bot that follows your RSS feed an archives them 🤔

@kim actually i keep forgetting to bring back the thing that blocks user rss feeds :") way too easy to scrape

@f0x @kim it's so nice of them to have all these discussions in public 🌍

@f0x here is likely how the knowledge of this tool might have spread https://www.cjr.org/analysis/journalists-want-to-recreate-twitter-on-mastodon-mastodon-is-not-into-it.php

(in the link attached to the 'about forty-five “instances” are blocking' text)

@host once again confirming the danger such journalists pose, repeating shit without knowing or caring about context

@f0x the "context" part hurts the most, as I would understand this to be the basis of what journalism entails.

@host @f0x jesus fucking christ. ty for linking that. socrates was looking out for their instance, idk why mathew couldntve just anonymized their post. fuck.

@f0x Instances should really block ryona.agency while they're at it. Doing that should render the tool useless.

@tonytins while it's absolutely a good instance to block, doing so doesn't remove you from the tool, as it uses the instance web pages. You can disable showing those to unauthenticated local users but that for an instance to decide

@f0x Wow. That's pretty bad.

@f0x @tonytins 🤔 shouldn't this be prevented by CORS restrictions?

@f0x
Of course they're using a domain with "ryona" in the name

@f0x for fucks sake. thanks for informing us about this

@imtheq @f0x @helen
Well that doesn't sound good.

@f0x @TerryHancock @helen keeping my eyes open for any shenanigans.

@wouldinotcallmyselfahumanbeing @XanIndigo @f0x

Qoto has also confirmed to me that they do not ban users of other instances for any reason.

Their rules on things like racism only applies to local Qoto users.

The admin wasn't even confident that he would ban child porn unless his community voted to do so.