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wait a minute, are a bunch of instances now using a tool to find out who has them suspended?
I've had multiple requests in the last few days asking why social.pixie.town, a tiny instance, has their specific instance suspended, what the fuck
kiwifarms, suspend list scraping
It's important context that this tool was made by kiwifarms, and expliclity links to their git in the footer.
All of these requests have been along the lines of "look we have a perfect set of rules there's no possibility at all you blocked us for good reason".
1. we can block for whatever reason we want, it's a discussion to have within our own community, not with you.
2. you're using a kiwifarms tool to get this info. fuck off
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
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%
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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 when reading that thread i considered screenshotting it, but realised you’d probably already done so. i was right! :p