I am also ‘Andrew’, the admin of this server. I’ll try to remember to only use this account for posting stuff.

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  • I’d be wary of getting a conversation node from anybody other than the original author (as described in the second approach).

    There’s a reason why, if you want to resolve a missing post in Lemmy, etc, you have to use the fedi-link to retrieve it from its source, not just from any other instance that has a copy (because, like the “context owner”, they could be lying).

    For Group-based apps, conversation backfill is mostly an issue for new instances, who might have a community’s posts (from its outbox), but will be missing old comments. Comments can be automatically and recursively retrieved when they are replied to or upvoted by a remote actor, but fetching from the source (as you arguably should do) is complicated by instances closing (there’s still loads of comments from feddit.de and kbin.social out there - it will be much worse when lemm.ee disappears). So perhaps Lemmy could also benefit from post authors being considered the trusted owner of any comments they receive.




  • Temporary for you … permanent for the rest of the fediverse, lol.

    There’s some ‘ngrok-free.app’ URLs knocking about from my experiments too. What’s fun is that I can leave them down for months, and then as soon as I start them again, Mastodon is straight there with “HELLO EVERYONE EVER - I’VE DELETED A USER! … I’VE DELETED ANOTHER USER …”




  • PieFed isn’t hiding mods - when Lemmy fails to get them, it’s for its own mysterious reasons.

    In ActivityPub, to get the moderators of this community you can do this from the command-line:
    curl --header 'accept: application/activity+json' --location https://feddit.uk/c/fedimemes/moderators | jq .orderedItems

    To get the moderators of a PieFed community, it’s exactly the same:
    curl --header 'accept: application/activity+json' --location https://piefed.social/c/50501/moderators | jq .orderedItems

    In both cases, the mods URL comes from the attributedTo field for the community.


  • What is the update delay for Fediseer?

    I don’t know. It’s not something I’m familiar with - it might just default to saying ‘closed’ if it doesn’t have the data.

    It’s interesting that the obvious bot accounts on those instances were set up in mid-March last year, so I’m guessing that these are somebody’s army that they’ve used before, but overplayed their hand when they turned it on the DonaldJMusk person. The admins can reasonably be blamed for setting up instances with open registrations and no protections and then forgetting about them, but I’d be wary of blaming them for being behind the attack directly. The ‘nicole’ person is unlikely to have used their own instance - it’s probably just someone with the same MO as whoever owns the bots, finding and exploiting vulnerable instances.