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A so-called "AI-powered social network start-up" has started cloning posts from across the Fediverse without asking permission. You can find out more in this discussion thread:

social.wake.st/@liaizon/112603

You might want to defederate from Maven, the domains to suspend are:

maven.ly
heymaven.com

This defederation will be much more effective if you have "authorized fetch" switched on, more info about it at fedi.tips/authorized-fetch

(via @liaizon)

#FediAdmin #MastoAdmin #Fediverse

24 comments
Flash Mob Of One

@homegrown @liaizon@wake.st What a bunch of a-holes.

Chris Carlier

@homegrown @liaizon Ew.

But also, who is asking for this to exist? Like who tf is out there thinking, 'Gee. I wish social media were more superficial.'?

python3 merp.py

@homegrown It might also be fetching posts from a public api endpoint. It would be a good idea for masto admins to disable "Allow unauthenticated access to public timelines" in "/admin/settings/discovery"

Itchi5 illustrations

@homegrown

@hireillo They have an acount with your name and posts too app.heymaven.com/profile/66713

You can search profiles here in the search-field: app.heymaven.com/discover

Not sure what exactly is going on, but reading the comments in this thread is explaining something
social.wake.st/@liaizon/112603

Might want to check it out how to block them and have them take down your profile.

Hireillo

@itchi5 @homegrown thanks! Actually blocked them about 30 minutes ago. Didn't know about the profile though. I'll look into it.

Alien_Sunset

@sage
Are you aware of this?

I know a lot of game creators will post discussions and snippets of their work on here and may not appreciate it being used in this way

wakest ⁂

@KevinGimbel @homegrown @kev that doesn't work in this case as they "ingested" the posts in a weird non standard way...

kevin ✨ (he/him)

@liaizon @homegrown @kev then block the servers? I was under the impression that something could be done πŸ₯²

Hugo Gameiro

@kev @KevinGimbel @liaizon @homegrown Does blocking the domains/IPs from the Mastodon admin interface not work?

Kev Quirk

@hugo apparently not because they’re not using federation

@KevinGimbel @liaizon @homegrown

Ursalzona :ursa: :Ryyca:

@homegrown @liaizon and we have another scrapper who openly admits that will sell the data (first 10 days for free lol)

ursal.zone/deck/@Ursalzona/112

They are on Mastodon Social too. Andrei is the mastermind. I blocked them all.

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