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Julian Lam

It seems this happens occasionally on #fedi where malicious users decide to take advantage of instances with poor moderation to spam widely.

There are many solutions, but let me offer a simple change that stops spam dead in its tracks:

#nodebb has a post queue built in. If you have 0 reputation, you need your post to be manually approved. You can adjust this as needed, but even the default (allow regular posting after 1 upvote) is sufficient. Stops 👏spam 👏 cold 👏.

#fediblockmeta #mastoadmin

16 February at 14:52 | Open on crag.social
Julian Lam

We also have integrated project honeypot, akismet, and captcha, but those are passive technologies that can be worked around given time.

But simple is best — raise the bar of contribution just a tiny bit, and the effect on spam is huge. To get around a post queue, spammers have to make a quality contribution, and that's hard when spam accounts are automated by script.

Does #mastodon support any of this?

16 February at 14:56 | Open on crag.social
Julian Lam

Finally figured out why #nodebb posts weren't queryable via Mastodon, turns out it does Content-Type checking, and I was inadvertently breaking #ActivityPub spec by sending in application/json when I should've been sending in "application/activity+json" or 'application/ld+json; profile="w3.org/ns/activitystreams"'

Latter doesn't play nicely with express, so using the former and all's well!

Full credit to @bouncepaw who gave me key to figuring it out! 🏅

Re: crag.social/@devnull/111858296

#fedidev

Finally figured out why #nodebb posts weren't queryable via Mastodon, turns out it does Content-Type checking, and I was inadvertently breaking #ActivityPub spec by sending in application/json when I should've been sending in "application/activity+json" or 'application/ld+json; profile="w3.org/ns/activitystreams"'

5 February at 19:18 | Open on crag.social
Julian Lam

Does there exist a brief write-up of how content is federated out? Do different #ActivityPub implementors federate content differently? (@stesnac suggests so!)

Here's my head-canon at present... when a note is created, the note is sent to all followers. If users are mentioned, the note is also sent to those users' inboxes.

If a note is addressed to the public collection, do it just get blasted to all known instances' inboxes?

snac.bsd.cafe/stesnac/p/170472

#fedidev

8 January at 15:53 | Open on crag.social
Julian Lam

Yesterday: "#threads will be an unmitigated disaster for the #fediverse, defederation is paramount"

Today: "hi guys please like and subscribe to my threads account here 👉 .."

6 Jul 2023 at 0:25 | Open on crag.social
Julian Lam

@protecttruth the sad truth is the other auto manufacturers pursuing FSD are honest (at least when it comes to human life). #Tesla and #Elon aren't.

These checks and balances are being tested probably for the first time in a long while.

16 Jun 2023 at 5:15 | Open on crag.social
Julian Lam

@c_9 wonderful idea, better than my brainwave today of replacing stop signs with speed bumps that scrape the bottom of your car if you go faster than 5 km/h

8 May 2023 at 22:58 | Open on crag.social
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