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I noticed something weird when running FediList : some instances had numbers for users and peers that varied wildly, and it was always GotoSocial instances. I don't use that software because I don't like the approach. (Matter of taste; good luck to them, and if their software gets anywhere, they'll end up having to fix the approach anyway.) So I started looking through the code (annoyingly, at…
I have for you a bizarre tale of scrapers, feds, data poisoning, Torswats, and everyone's favorite fedi instance. It veers technical, because I suspect it will be of interest to other people running servers with UGC (i.e., every fedi instance), and also because the mechanics of how I figured out what I figured out might be useful. It's also got information about how the FBI collects data, which is…
THE APOTHEOSIS HAS BEGUN YOU MAY WITNESS ITS GLORY AT FSE BUGOUT ZONE DOT ORG SLASH APOTHEOSIS YOU MAY ALSO WITNESS SOME OF THE GLORY IN GRAFANA OVER TOR BEHOLD: FSE'S ASCENT INTO GODHOOD Also sometimes you can watch live-debugging. BECAUSE THE DEMO GODS ARE NOT EASILY APPEASED IT CAN NO LONGER BE STOPPED FEDI CAN NO LONGER BE KILLED IT IS TOO LATE TO SEEK FORGIVENESS Do you understand what I am…
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. — falsely attributed to Winston Churchill This was originally just a post on FSE, from April 2022. (If it federated to your instance, you can try putting https://freespeechextremist.com/objects/f688063f-d3f3-448e-b0f3-5b02787c2739 into your search bar; it resulted in a somewhat long thread.) I send people to it often enough…
TL;DR: The server died! The new one is racked up. FSE will be back shortly, but it will be Revolver rather than Pleroma. If you had an FSE account, the same username and password will get you into fsebugoutzone.org , but you may or may not want to use that one, for reasons that will be explained shortly. What happened to FSE? We were struck down by God for our hubris. (The computer blew up. It…