Personally I don’t like the whole crypto coins scene much but if you’re interested in an open social network with ties to crypto, have a look a nostr.
Personally I don’t like the whole crypto coins scene much but if you’re interested in an open social network with ties to crypto, have a look a nostr.
Oof. Just had a quick look at it. It’s like 90% crypto content. And lot of it are obvious scams to steal your coins.
While I agree that it is probably better to not defederate them right from the start, I believe that the Fediverse might not have that much leverage. This recent blog post about the history of XMPP describes it pretty well: https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html
As expected, no Google user bated an eye. In fact, none of them realised. At worst, some of their contacts became offline. That was all. But for the XMPP federation, it was like the majority of users suddenly disappeared. Even XMPP die hard fanatics, like your servitor, had to create Google accounts to keep contact with friends. Remember: for them, we were simply offline. It was our fault.
Of course it’s different because this is social media and not just 1:1 privat messages. But for us to actually have some leverage/impact we have to generate a lot of (good) content so that Threads users will actually notice and complain if that content “vanishes”. And at the same time we must not become too dependent on their content
That’s a cool idea. Thanks for your work!
One question: Let’s say the script defederates an instance and then the admin of that instance cleans up their database and makes sure no new bots can register. Would your script remove them from the blacklist or would I have to manually check if all instances on my blacklist are still “infested” to give them a second chance?
Ich vermute, die sollen wie in anderen sozialen Netzwerken primär für zwei Dinge genutzt werden:
Leider sind ein nicht geringer Teil davon gefälschte Benutzer, die in den letzten Tagen von Robotern angelegt wurden. Schönes Beispiel: https://lemmy.k6qw.com/
42,5K Benutzer, aber nur 15 Kommentare und eine Pfostierung.
I think it’s actually pretty clean. Thanks to the references on the person
table all related entries in the database like posts, comments, etc. also get deleted if there are any. It’s better than banning all those fake users and thereby spamming the modlog of all instances that federate with you 😅
“Poor planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.”