@silverpill I am still getting recent requests from...

@silverpill I am still getting recent requests from Threads, every time I fetch. This proves they didn't turn the service off. They're choosing to deny some requests, possibly by actor origin.

108.162.237.23 - - [14/Dec/2023:20:04:42 +0000] "GET /internal/fetch HTTP/2.0" 200 823 "-" "facebookexternalua"
172.69.71.14 - - [14/Dec/2023:20:04:57 +0000] "GET /internal/fetch HTTP/2.0" 200 823 "-" "facebookexternalua"
172.69.71.147 - - [14/Dec/2023:20:04:59 +0000] "GET /internal/fetch HTTP/2.0" 200 823 "-" "facebookexternalua"

Like 14 Dec 2023 at 20:06 | Open on gleasonator.com

7 comments

silverpill

@alex I tried to fetch https://www.threads.net/ap/users/mosseri from my other instance public.mitra.social and received a pingback from facebookexternalua. Is it possible that they block mitra.social but not public.mitra.social? Seems unlikely. I think their federation client may simply give up after several unsuccessful federation attempts.

14 Dec 2023 at 20:47 | Open on mitra.social

Alex Gleason

@silverpill I don't know why they would target mitra.social. Does mitra.social have any requests from their user-agent historically? I have 0 from servers that don't work, which means no attempts were ever made.

14 Dec 2023 at 20:56 | Open on gleasonator.com

silverpill

@alex Yes, mitra.social had incoming requests from facebookexternalua, but at some point they stopped and I can't trigger them anymore

14 Dec 2023 at 21:08 | Open on mitra.social

Alex Gleason

@silverpill That's weird. That's different from my problem. That means you got blocked after they saw your traffic. Versus blocked up-front.

14 Dec 2023 at 21:25 | Open on gleasonator.com

silverpill

@alex Yeah, and now I'm getting 429's from their server. The other instance (public.mitra.social) federates normally.

22 Dec 2023 at 19:32 | Open on mitra.social

Alex Gleason

@silverpill Use ngrok to host it on a different domain temporarily, and I bet you it will work.

22 Dec 2023 at 19:35 | Open on gleasonator.com

silverpill

@alex Sure. If they won't unblock me that is what I'm going to do

1 22 Dec 2023 at 19:41 | Open on mitra.social