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pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 13:31:02 JST

pistolero

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@WhiskeyBent @Doll @pwm @ins0mniak @ApocalyptoLatte1488 @WeissenSocken88 That's two nice crew diddlers.
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WhiskeyBent 🇸🇪 (whiskeybent@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 13:31:03 JST

WhiskeyBent 🇸🇪

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He was here last week innit

koropokkur :verified: :amigacheck: (koropokkur@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 13:31:29 JST

koropokkur :verified: :amigacheck:

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@p @Doll @pwm @ins0mniak @ApocalyptoLatte1488 @WhiskeyBent @WeissenSocken88 wtf is wrong with you?
ncd has no pedos

pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 13:34:15 JST

pistolero

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@Doll @WhiskeyBent @pwm @ins0mniak @ApocalyptoLatte1488 @WeissenSocken88 I keep hoping that if I antagonize them enough, they will go away.

† top dog :pedomustdie: likes this.

ĐØⱠⱠ (doll@decayable.ink)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 13:34:16 JST

ĐØⱠⱠ

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Although both were replying to me specifically, I would like to remain blameless regarding this circumstance. I'm just so fucking likeable. I hope they find a cure someday.

:letter_g:oalkeeper :yotsuba_happy: (goalkeeper@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 13:48:28 JST

:letter_g:oalkeeper :yotsuba_happy:

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Must be defederated because I don't see him either

:Christmas_kitty_bell: LovecraftEnthusiast :shyduck: (lovecraftenthusiast@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 13:48:28 JST

:Christmas_kitty_bell: LovecraftEnthusiast :shyduck:

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Its P, Hes long defederated, which is unfortunate because hes interesting

CrustyB (crustyburgerhead@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 13:48:28 JST

CrustyB

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Just with NCD or did he defederate from the Fediverse?

WhiskeyBent 🇸🇪 (whiskeybent@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 13:48:29 JST

WhiskeyBent 🇸🇪

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Who’s this fag?

:Christmas_kitty_bell: LovecraftEnthusiast :shyduck: (lovecraftenthusiast@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 13:49:19 JST

:Christmas_kitty_bell: LovecraftEnthusiast :shyduck:

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Hes defeded here, its a long story and its about a dumb block bot. He runs whatever version of fse is still going and works on his own platform he plans on rolling out at some point

:suihead: (sui@decayable.ink)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 14:03:09 JST

:suihead:

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Don't loads of other instances have the same block/spam bot though, like Poast's & Anni's etc? Was it coded differently or something?

Frondeur (frondeur@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 14:03:10 JST

Frondeur

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@CrustyBurgerhead @LovecraftEnthusiast @Doll @p @pwm @ins0mniak @ApocalyptoLatte1488 @Goalkeeper @WhiskeyBent @WeissenSocken88 ncd...he attacked y'all's blockbot by having everyone blocked and unblocked...over and over again...

pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 14:03:10 JST

pistolero

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@Frondeur @CrustyBurgerhead @LovecraftEnthusiast @Doll @pwm @ins0mniak @ApocalyptoLatte1488 @Goalkeeper @WhiskeyBent @WeissenSocken88 I didn't unblock anyone, you can just keep blocking repeatedly. All I did was upload a CSV.

And it wasn't an attack, it was a demonstration. They insisted it wasn't a spambot.

pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 14:04:00 JST

pistolero

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@Sui @Frondeur @Doll @pwm @ins0mniak @ApocalyptoLatte1488 @CrustyBurgerhead @Goalkeeper @LovecraftEnthusiast @WhiskeyBent @WeissenSocken88 This one is different, yes.

The big difference with the one they were using was that it posted public scope and tagged both the blocker and blocked account. This meant that the followers of the bot, participants in overlapping relays, the public timeline, etc., got outbound requests. That is, if you blocked one of them, there were a large number of entries added to the oban job queue, as well as incoming requests from the Announce activities from the relays. So I took a list of their users, uploaded it in the block importer. Since this version of the frontend doesn't clear it, I didn't even have to select the file again: I could just click "upload" again. So, one click from me resulted in a few hundred requests from this server and each of those resulted in a few hundred requests going out from their server to the rest of fedi. I didn't need to be an admin, I just needed to be a dick, which I am. Then of course instead of fixing their bot, they just deactivated my account. I could have just made another account on literally any server, but instead I posted the file along with instructions for how to use it.

ins0mniak (ins0mniak@majestic12.airforce)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 14:11:45 JST

ins0mniak

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@Sui @Doll @p @pwm @ApocalyptoLatte1488 @CrustyBurgerhead @Goalkeeper @LovecraftEnthusiast @WhiskeyBent I rarely know what's going on with these things.

I run a single user instance tho so I just sort of do my thing.

:suihead: (sui@decayable.ink)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 14:11:46 JST

:suihead:

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> I just needed to be a dick, which I am.

Cheers for dumbing it down, I wasn't very social with either FSE or NCD back then so I didn't really see much except the fallout.

pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 14:12:05 JST

pistolero

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@Sui @Doll @pwm @ins0mniak @ApocalyptoLatte1488 @CrustyBurgerhead @Goalkeeper @LovecraftEnthusiast @WhiskeyBent @Frondeur @WeissenSocken88 It was basically an amplification attack and I tried to explain this to the authors of the bot and they ignored it so I started just doing the guerilla thing with the people that deployed the bot. Every time I tried to explain it to the admin, every time the admin brushed it off. DRC listened, but because DRC did theirs by periodically scanning recent activities, it wouldn't work, so there wasn't any need.