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@admin @schratze okay, as i said, make your own decisions... you can check out the comments for the various projects and evaluate how invasive they are

@admin @schratze some are limited in what they scrape, sure, but they're still automated requests for various info on your instance. make your own decision tho

are they...you know
[mimes mainstreaming far right talking points]
a journalist

wow, attending #cvqcon2023 and the hotel is so incompetent. first they announce that everyone has to move to the room whose number is one higher than our current room number, the next day they tell us to move to the room whose number is twice our current room number. what's next, moving us from room n to the n-th triangular number?

im going to do kitchen nightmares but i visit instance servers and i rag about them having poor moderation and no backups

@researchfairy i had it yesterday, with a slice of lemon too. not right before bed though

the three-body problem 

“I would never have thought that actual fucking aliens would be involved!”

I CANN buy yet another domain i don't need, right?

Fediblock, meta 

If you can't do the simple basics of crediting @CaribenxMarciaX n @gingerrroot for fediblock you truly are part of the problem

updated list, as a few switched from ipv4 to v6 and vice-versa :")

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right, of course PIA just doesn't give a fuck about abuse through their vpn's

@angilly i appreciate you taking these concerns in stride. In the future though, I'd recommend having the public discussion *before* starting to collect any data

I have a separate instance that doesn't really federate, and it's been quite 'interesting' to monitor the logs for all these scrapers.

Also Friendica is very noisy for some reason? requesting a bunch of endpoints on discovery even tho you don't really federate with them

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@angilly @f0x text search that bypasses blocks (i.e. literally anything that scrapes fedi into a centralized data store) is an enabler for harassment and is therefore a massive red flag

just because the data is there and the use is permissible doesn't mean it's ethical

@angilly on my instances these requests get denied, yes. but just because data is public does not mean people consent to it being scraped, processed, and published elsewhere. If arbitrary full-text search was desireable on the fediverse, it would've been there.

It's not a technical challenge that needs solving, it's a social decision to do without it.

docs.joinmastodon.org/user/net
> It deliberately does not allow searching for arbitrary strings in the entire database, in order to reduce the risk of abuse by people searching for controversial terms to find people to dogpile.

blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/07/
> Mastodon deliberately does not support arbitrary search

Assorted list of Fediverse scrapers you might want to block on the network level (some more malicious than others)

git.pixie.town/f0x/nixos/src/b

another scraper by an (ex-?)twitter employee, running without recognizable user-agent (uses the typhoeus library with defaults)

creating some full-text search federation wide search... macaw.social/@angilly/10959740

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fediverse.network scrapes a whole range of endpoints, but the site it refers to is just a parked domain

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