re: kiwifarms, suspend list scraping
it's confirmed that qoto.org used a fascist's tool to mass send emails to instances who suspend them for good reason. https://qoto.org/@freemo/109360881187600726
#FediBlock qoto.org if you haven't already
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re: kiwifarms, suspend list scraping
@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
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@f0x when reading that thread i considered screenshotting it, but realised you’d probably already done so. i was right! :p
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@kim well i almost didn't! once again reminded I should throw shit through an archiver before tooting an expose :")
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@f0x you could set up a bot that follows your RSS feed an archives them 🤔
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@kim actually i keep forgetting to bring back the thing that blocks user rss feeds :") way too easy to scrape
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@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)
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@host once again confirming the danger such journalists pose, repeating shit without knowing or caring about context
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@f0x the "context" part hurts the most, as I would understand this to be the basis of what journalism entails.
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@f0x
Of course they're using a domain with "ryona" in the name
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@f0x I've received that email from qoto.org. I've also received quite a bit of abuse from various instances because they discovered I'm blocking them. This dynamic is troubling.
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@f0x hmm this is bad i see many instances i know in the screenshots including mine
everyone if you get one of these emails please share it so everyone can block them
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@f0x good thing I never filled in the contact email in my instance .-.
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@f0x That place has always been pretty sus tbh
@f0x i tried to see what's under this link and it triggered my antivirus, lmao
That site is definitely not safe.
re: kiwifarms, suspend list scraping
post has since been deleted, so here are some screenshots. this is in context of https://archive.ph/rxwDp#80%