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@darius is there a way to know who federates, or doesn't, with whom? I haven't found it I think.

30 Jan 2021 at 20:43 | Open on social.coop
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Darius Kazemi

@flancian no you pretty much have to rely on people self-reporting this information

30 Jan 2021 at 20:45 | Open on friend.camp
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@darius is it only me or that sucks? It seems instances should at least have a mechanism to report this openly; [[open]] seems like a good default for the [[fediverse]] to me?

30 Jan 2021 at 20:46 | Open on social.coop
Timo Tijhof

@flancian @darius

For Mastodon in particular, the about page has an autogenerated table showing which instances they mute or block. However, this is optional. When creating a block or mute, one can choose whether to make it public.

30 Jan 2021 at 20:47 | Open on mastodon.technology
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@krinkle @darius oh, very nice! thanks a lot for the information.

It seems it should be relatively straightforward to scrape this information and assemble it into an optional [[graph]] of the [[fediverse]]? Do you know of such a thing being available somewhere?

I know about gitlab.com/tao_oat/fediverse.s but I haven't tried it yet. Was thinking of setting it up.

30 Jan 2021 at 20:50 | Open on social.coop
Darius Kazemi

@flancian @krinkle Very few instances I know of actually choose to expose their block lists though. Exposing who you block is a known attack surface, basically a provocation to say "here is who I don't like, come and get me if you don't like it"

30 Jan 2021 at 20:51 | Open on friend.camp
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@darius @krinkle right, that makes sense.

But I don't get it, couldn't we go in a more "positive" direction and show which instances have high affinity by measuring e.g. number of mutual follows?

30 Jan 2021 at 20:53 | Open on social.coop
Darius Kazemi

@flancian @krinkle that seems like a good idea to me!

30 Jan 2021 at 20:54 | Open on friend.camp
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@darius @krinkle I will try to find tools/services/settings that allow us to do this, or develop them if needed.

anagora.org/node/2021-01-30
- [[feature request]]

30 Jan 2021 at 20:57 | Open on social.coop
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