CTA ATTENTION ALL FEDIVERSE ADMINS:
On July 4th Gab is coming on to the Fediverse by switching over to Mastodon on their servers.
This means that you can shut the door on them today by preemptively have them fully suspended from your instances. So your users do not have risk getting harassed by any of their users, and they from the start be blocked off from major portions of the Fediverse.
Thank you for your consideration and
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@FASA_Andrew_1879 I believe it's 2 servers. Gab.com is the main one, and it's possibly another one which I can't remember right now :D
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@maloki @FASA_Andrew_1879 Gab.ai, I hear
@ashfurrow Heads up!
@cj on it β we'll be adding anti-fascist language to our CoC this weekend.
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@maloki whatβs the instance url to block? .com and .ai ? or is there a different one
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@gingerrroot Those two are the ones we know of right now
CTA ATTENTION ALL FEDIVERSE ADMINS: another one
@maloki and update: i also saw someone saying they have an .io but i havenβt checked that yet
CTA ATTENTION ALL FEDIVERSE ADMINS: another one
@gingerrroot .io doesn't resolve for me, I think maybe they said it because I said ai or io
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@maloki Is there a list of instances?
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@sara It's atleast gab.com and then maybe another gab.ai or io? something like that. I don't remember.
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@maloki @sara Deleted my earlier message to say I just came across this list: https://efdn.club/@norikawa/102300879956456736
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@SelfsameSynonym Well, it's a step one. And Florence does have a chance to add features on here. If people submit the PRs we'll accept them especially in regards to this.
Privacy
@SelfsameSynonym I'm not sure what you mean.
You can read the issues in the repo of you want more details right this moment.
I'm in bed, and about to fall asleep, because medicine.
I'll get back to you tomorrow.
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@SelfsameSynonym @maloki oh. That explains the behaviour we've seen.
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@SelfsameSynonym @maloki and it would work the same in any other federated system without authentication basically
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@SelfsameSynonym @maloki it's not an excuse. It's just what is public is public for everyone. Another possibility is share with specific groups. Tell me how I'm wrong please.
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@charlag You're not wrong, and I don't think we should engage with infighting, we are on the same side here.
Let's focus on what we can do, and see where that'll lead us
@SelfsameSynonym
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@SelfsameSynonym you're not wrong about this, and I'm trying to start some constructive conversations about this over with Florence.
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@SelfsameSynonym @maloki well, I understand how it works, thanks. Would it be better if Nazi instance saw that they're blocked and fetched statuses some other way?
Maybe it could be harder for, I can't tell for sure but it complicates a lot of things, kills relaying of statuses and you can still open that instance and read everything?
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@charlag From all anti-abuse reports and stuff I've read, making it harder for them is actually _beneficial_ to countering a lot of the shit they do.
Out of sight out of mind kinda deal.
@SelfsameSynonym
instance suspensions
@charlag From all anti-abuse reports and stuff I've read, making it harder for them is actually _beneficial_ to countering a lot of the shit they do.
Out of sight out of mind kinda deal.
@SelfsameSynonym
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@bclindner @maloki thanks for the notice. I've already blocked the gab.com and gab.ai domains but if there are others, let me know so I can block them too π I'll be working on adding explicit anti-fascist language to our Code of Conduct this weekend.
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@ashfurrow @maloki I think we've also identified gab.io. It would be ideal to somehow block *.gab.* but I don't know if that's possible on your end.
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@bclindner @maloki Sadly, the domain blocks aren't compatible with wildcards.
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@ashfurrow @maloki Figures. If any other problematic instances show up I'm sure we'll know shortly.
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@gudenau I know it's ruby at least.
I think rails are involved, but right now my mind is totally spacing on if it's actually true.
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@maloki @gudenau @bclindner Yeah it is RoR but the structure of the code might make domain blocks with wildcards difficult. If the check is running often, turning a string comparison into a Regex check might have performance implications, for example.
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@gudenau @maloki @bclindner I mentioned performance as one possible consideration. As usual with Matodon (and indeed, all OSS projects), the real impediment to implementing this change is getting it merged by maintainers. The best start would be opening a new issue with a proposed solution β let me know if I can help.
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@ashfurrow @gudenau @bclindner I think we started discussing it in an issue on Florence. Care to contribute to the conversation there?
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@maloki @gudenau @bclindner Do you have a link? I searched the GitHub issues but it looks like discussion of Mastodon development is now split between different places.
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@gudenau @ashfurrow @bclindner
Repo: https://github.com/florence-social/mastodon-fork
Let's see if I can find the actual issue I'm thinking about too.
Mainluy the discussions here:
https://github.com/florence-social/mastodon-fork/issues/108
but also this issue that doesn't have a lot of discussion yet.
https://github.com/florence-social/mastodon-fork/issues/110
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@maloki @gudenau @bclindner Ah gotcha. I'm not even up to date with the various forks of Mastodon anymore, huh.
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@ashfurrow @gudenau @bclindner
#Florence is #ForkTogether :) We evolved, changed names, and had our first Pre-release this week.
https://write.as/florence-development/this-florence-pre-release-0-1-the-fork-is-alive-flomodev
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@rick_777 preemptively blocked
@chr
Thanks!
Blocking gab
@nipos they are switching the platform on gab.com to Mastodon, they made a public announcement to this affect.
.ai should also be preemptively blocked
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@maloki Is there a specific instance or server I can block? I'm running Friendica, not Mastodon.