@pernia@briankrebs@cvnt It already works with Tor. It can work with i2p fine, I talked to Jeff about the mechanics of it. (Toss in a selective proxy like Privoxy and it already does work with those.)
> they have me instance blocked so there is no reason for this
Actually, that would be the reason. Pleroma sees a reference to your account, fetches it, MRF drops it, no trace of your account has been added to the database and there's no centralized web caching system in Pleroma, so it sees another reference to your account, etc. It could actually be the same handful of posts, because if it sees a reference to a post and that post gets MRF'd away, then it might repeatedly refetch the post.
> What is the point to any of this. To keep in tabs with shitposters on fedi?
Several attempts so far to scrape FSE for academia, we have had a lot of DDoS attempts (but it has been a long time, they're pretty rare nowadays). There's some guy that has been shoving the same set of keywords at us for years, despite them having returned zero results most of the time and returning 4xx responses for at least a year.
> Like if they really wanted someone they can (and already have) talk to the isp, the server provider, and get the owner's information and assests.
Depends on who "they" is: shitposting aside, maybe "they" isn't a government.
If we're talking, say, someone that wants to write some crazy shit in the newspaper about online extremism, this is exactly what they might do. If they're some company contracted to find some people that have posted (lemme check https://freespeechextremist.com/media/7f232f3e-00c0-4e07-8ed1-52c518906b07/keywords.tsv?name=keywords.tsv again...) "This [airport] is [awful]. I [can't stand] how [bad] it is. It may be [crappy] and but least it was [cheap]." so they can do hard-hitting journalism about the dangerous rise of internet extremists, then this is exactly what they might do. Maybe "they" is a government and they have hammered a large portion of fedi through various proxies looking for whose stuff to seize. Or it's supposed to look like it's coming from Israel.
@moesha@Maholmire@dcc@pwm Major organizations use COBOL, major organizations use Windows. I know some major organizations that put Ubuntu on a server on purpose.
Anyway, the reason I have nothing to say about NixOS is that if I try to say a word about it, it will come out "neurotic fetishists" and "don't know how the computer works" and "they put a box in a box because once they opened the box, they felt dirty being able to see the contents" and I don't wanna argue with people about Nix being the Haskell of Linux distros and then argue more when people don't think that's an insult.
It's too weird that this happens right as something similar is happening on Poast https://poa.st/notice/AcXMZtG3lT0VG4YngW , two of the instances that @Drand was scraping to find "misinformation". Anyone else getting hammered with these queries? @sjw , @Moon?
Currently getting flooded by three Israeli IPs that don't realize that they are only getting 402s in response. If anyone wants a list of keywords that the .il feds are interested in, give me a minute; I'm going to just let them keep going for a while.
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