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mittorn

@michael how abandoned server supposed to update?

22 February at 0:53 | Wall-to-wall | Open on masturbated.one
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Pieselpriemel

@mittorn
This only solves problems with abandoned servers that have to be set up. The currently spam affected can only be defederated.

@michael

22 February at 3:44 | Open on mastodon.de
Michael

@pieselpriemel lots of abandoned servers are hosted on managed providers and are being auto updated by those providers @mittorn

22 February at 6:06 | Open on mstdn.thms.uk
Pieselpriemel

@michael
And lots are running on a Raspberry Pi in someones basement.
@mittorn

22 February at 11:13 | Open on mastodon.de
Michael

@pieselpriemel Yes. But there is a finite number of these. Eventually they'll all either be defederated/limited, or just get lucky and not be used for spam.

The importance is not to add a (potentially ever-increasing) number of problematic servers to the network, so that this will eventually stop.

(also: one step at a time: given the calls for it and the current focus of the mastodon devs, it wouldn't surprise me if we'd see the option to only accept federation from servers that are reasonably up to date implemented in Mastodon sooner rather than later)

@mittorn

@pieselpriemel Yes. But there is a finite number of these. Eventually they'll all either be defederated/limited, or just get lucky and not be used for spam.

The importance is not to add a (potentially ever-increasing) number of problematic servers to the network, so that this will eventually stop.

(also: one step at a time: given the calls for it and the current focus of the mastodon devs, it wouldn't surprise me if we'd see the option to only accept federation from servers that are reasonably up...

22 February at 11:25 | Open on mstdn.thms.uk
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