🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

Seems someone is attacking mastodon.social with spam bots that are effecting users across the fediverse with spammy messages.

Users may wish to temporarily mute the mastodon.social server. If the problem persists much longer I may temporarily silence the server until it comes under control.

@deesapoetra

Anytime.

@gideon

@deesapoetra

Well I guess its a matter of interpritation, the old bug vs feature argument.

If you federate with the whole universe then the load on every single server would be tremendous, even just in terms of storage space let alone bandwidth. So for some only federating with a subset of the universe makes sense, and activity pub as-is provides that.

On the other hand for servers that do wish to "see the whole world" there are no real good automatic mechnisms for that. We have relays which is close and activitypub allows for that. But the issue with relays is they arent automatically discovered and they only give you access to servers that participate in it. So it still keeps us cutoff from satellite instances that have a smaller federation footprint.

I'm not sure there really is a perfect solution in a decentralized world. Its less the fault of activitypub and more the fault of just the dynamics of decentralization.

@gideon

@louiscouture

::bedum tiss::

@deesapoetra

When you say issue do you mean the lack of privacy and ability to be tracked, or do you mean the need for follow bots to increase federation?

@gideon

@bonifartius Its a shame the only good option right now for mobile is google android.. iOS is of course even worse than google. I long for the day linux on the phone becomes a viable option where it actually is supported enough by app developers that its useful, and supported on enough phones you can actually buy a decent phone and install it. Right now it seems your only choice is to buy one of a very small number of models from small vendors who put linux on the phone. But even then the app universe is severely lacking

@Kovaelin just gotta hover your finger over the button :)

@deesapoetra

Ahh yea.. sadly as long as you post publicly there isnt much you can do about tracking. Well mannered bots and crawlers will of course obey your no tracking flags but those that wont, well, not much you can do about them short of making your posts private.

@gideon

@realcaseyrollins

I doubt thats it as there isnt anything of value in those feeds. Its mostly what you see on TV and boring stuff like telemetry and video feeds.

More likely they made it private because if something goes wrong they might not want to show it to the general public and want a chance to decide what they show and when. If their tank, for example, blew a hole that didnt detroy the whole ship it might still lower their stock price or reduce public confidence.

@icedquinn

@deesapoetra

We call those follow bots, their purpose is generally to increase federation.

Is it bothering you in some way?

@gideon

@Atlas_Khan

Oh no, you were mistaken.. I am done **with you**. As I said once you had you rlittle temper tantrum and resorted to personal insults I was done with you. More than happy to talk to adults though.

@melovida @clacke

@deesapoetra You couldnt before?

Game developers boss: "Have you improved the game play? The Game mechanics? The physics engine? The Graphics? What about all those crashes and other bugs?

Developer: "Ummm, no but we managed to make all the breasts of female characters twice their size with four times the jiggle"

Boss: "Its ready to ship!"

@anon00110

Dude you are just so far off base and ignoring fundementals.. the whole point of the gold standard is there is no such thing as "cheap money", money's value is fixed by gold. What you are really doing is trying to twist the fact that the gold standard was crippling into something that ignores the gold standard.

What you mean to say is that bank loans were cheaper (lower interest rate) which was done because the banks were struggling to stay in business so slashed prices in a desperate attempt to try to sell more loans, stimulate economy, and get out of debt caused by a deleted gold reserve that directly effected monetary supply.

@melovida

@anon00110

LOL

you: "in the early 1020s the fed expanded the money supply"

me: "You mean the money supply plummeted and they tried to restore it and couldnt"

you: "your trying so hard to be right, you are twisting the fact"

It literally went down by 1.3 bil in the early 1920s then back up by 0.8 bil.. I am not twisting the facts by pointing out the money supply went down, not up... what your doing is called projection, you are literally twisting the facts.

@melovida