ShittyKopper [they/them]

I’m boring and I shitpost and tech-post all over the place. Big fan of Ea-nāṣir.

Microblogs: @shittykopper@toots.w.on-t.work

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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

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  • Most of Beehaw’s blocks are “generic ActivityPub assholes”, which, before the Reddit migration, was really just the worst of the worst of Mastodon, Pleroma, Soapbox, and Miss/Calc/???Key instances, with the occasional PeerTube thrown in.

    They likely just imported one of the common blocklists and moved on with their lives, which really should be “how to secure your community 101” but most Lemmy admins haven’t seem to have gotten the memo yet.

    I’m patiently waiting for the day those assholes realize most of Lemmy is open ground for them to shit in, boy that’s gonna be a fun few days.









  • Please make sure that you’re only indexing Lemmy communities and Kbin magazines (i.e. not microblogs)

    In the wider fediverse, there is an actual expectation of privacy beyond “well it’s technically possible to scrape everything so we may as well give up”. Several people (with reasons of innocent naivete & explicit and blatant malice alike) have tried making fediverse search engines, but all of them are either dead or blocked.

    Lemmy/Kbin is in a unique position where global search does make some sense to have, due to it being a public forum focused on topics (and not people), but there is a very real chance that assholes could use an “unbounded” fediverse search engine to find vulnerable people (quite a few of them specifically fleeing to the fediverse to avoid that kind of problem) and harass them.