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LB I do not understand at all how people are arguing this is GTS behaving badly and not scrapers like...
FediDB: how many users do you have GTS: I'm not telling you don't crawl my page FediDB: I'm going to do it anyway how many users do you have GTS: Fifty billion FediDB: okay thanks FediDB: hey wait you lied to me!!!
Like idk sounds to me like you should have walked away at "don't crawl my page" and if you get the wrong numbers after that that's on you
Honestly looking at FediDBs GitHub there's a lot of complaints about it's scraping behavior in general. Like it will keep repeatedly hitting domains that don't even have fedi servers anymore
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. It's quite silly that fedidb is slamming my server asking for instance info on instances I shut down years ago. I get requests every h...
Hi! I'm not very techy so this might be a dumb question, but. On your popular fediverse accounts list here: https://fedidb.org/popular-fediverse-accounts Where's George Takei? He's at @georgetakei@...
Ultimately the real problem we aren't discussing though is that Dansup is accusing the GTS devs of doing this "for clout", when they are doing this for "leave me alone", which is the opposite of clout.
It's complete bullshit and he should be embarrassed to say it.
Guy steadily gaining more influence over the fediverse with his software and massively unmanageable instance sizes spends most of his time beefing with other fedi devs...I don't think this is actually GOOD for the fediverse.
"This isn't about my scraper ignoring robots.txt and pounding instances that don't even exist anymore with requests indefinitely, it's about them trying to get clout by randomizing numbers (that I shouldn't have been scraping) so big nobody would even believe them!"
i said this before on a standalone post but if theres one thing he could learn from his idol gargron is to shut the fuck up and actually work on his bullshit software (that doesn't even do its job properly lmao)
seriously say what you want about website boy but at least he was smart enough to back off and do his shit instead of acting like the next jesus christ
@chkdsk it's funny because about a month ago during a meltdown Eugen literally told him DIRECTLY and PRIVATELY "hey man quit posting right now you're not doing yourself any favors" and he proceeded to post that message and keep posting for a bit and making everyone mad before he finally listened
A ton of his recent posts, including this GTS one, are full of nothing but people trying to tell him "hey man please stop posting this it's such a bad idea"
@jeremiah @chkdsk I think the posts he deletes have a bigger effect than the posts he keeps, because if he left half these posts up for people to see he'd get way less attention
personally while an instagram-like service has its use (visual artists would like it a lot) even though just making an alt frontend for mastodon/other existing softwares would do the job as well...
loops was a fucking grave mistake. not only because that form is an evil product of modern internet designed specifically to addict you and worsen your attention span, but also it just Won't fucking Work. tiktok is a cash cow because it has an algorithm designed to keep you sucked in for hours
so its just a dumb fucking thing that makes no sense. and i think posting short vids on existing microblogging side of fedi software is good as is
@chkdsk @jeremiah anyone who cares about fedi would have cloned vine instead
Small file sizes, hard to monetize so no big financial incentives, and in 6 seconds you can tell one tightly thought out joke or show your dog and can't spread weird misinformation
i haven't used the app myself but vines were actually fun. tiktok is just straight up brainrot (and while its sometimes funny it literally fucks up your brain)
@chkdsk @jeremiah out of the tiktoks I've seen the only good and memorable one I can think of that couldn't have fit in a vine is the "it goes in the square hole" one
@chkdsk @jeremiah I have a burner tiktok account that I only made to keep an eye on people buying plots of land in the desert or swamp attempting to build communes with absolutely no skills in anything
@chkdsk @jeremiah in a way, my interest in people building ill advised communes and my interest in people building ill advised online communities are the exact same interest, just one is more likely to end in someone going to the hospital
@gildilinie oh I've been into commune people on and off since well before Cohost the problem is you have to find the ones that spend enough time online that they post enough about it that you get the details
Luckily these days more and more ill advised communes are being started by tiktok people
@gildilinie Cohost should have been a commune tbh they at least had the money for property that isn't ten hours away from a water source and maybe some infrastructure
@chkdsk When you formulate it like that, yeah. You're right about loops.
I care more about Instagram because I've got artist friends who rely on Instagram for studios sales and courting galleries, and I mostly just want institutions and artists to be off big tech.
I've got a Pixelfed account on the flagship instance that I'm migrating now (didn't realize Dan never worked on meaningful export functionality until I went to use it).
I do like having a photo focused account/app separated from the microblogging one.
@jeremiah @chkdsk I keep wondering why we need servers dedicated to image posts instead of like...front ends
Maybe there's something I'm missing but it feels like you could just have Mastodon or GTS or whatever and just have a front end that filters down to just image posts, or a front end that shows your posts in a portfolio view
@jeremiah @chkdsk Most people I know who are trying Pixelfed (and are familiar with fedi meta in general) are trying it *despite* Dansup's posts, not because of them.
Making the pictures actually fit on my screen rather than posting through daily bouts of main character syndrome would be nice I guess, but what do I know 🤷
It makes me think that his goals may be aligned with the "silicon valley exit strategy": - start any project - make drama - pose as a disruptor, opposed by various groups - inflate own audience numbers - sell
I don't run a fedi server, but I do run a regular website and any crawler that disobeys my robots.txt gets severely mistreated by me, without shame. If you break the well-established convention that robots.txt represents -- I don't care why -- then you get what you get.
This feels very firmly like the FO side of FA, FO.
A lot of people's first reaction seems to be "your server should not react to crawling this way" when I feel like the real question should be "why is the crawler not respecting robots.txt?", which just seems wild to me. Literally blaming the victim.
@Lnklnx :sdf: @lori If I'm not mistaken, one of the original purposes of robots.txt was to warn crawlers about things which might cause problems. If they ignore it, that's on them.
It haunts me that he didn't even say that, he said "spread tea," this language is so appropriated he doesn't even know how to work it properly.
Altho, speaking of language, he calls this an "inconvenience" here, when instead it's "lack of interest in shared values including on technical basics so basic even I, who doesn't touch computers, knows is basic."
@tully @bright_helpings and this is exactly why I feel strongly about calling this shit out at this point because he keeps saying shit and deleting it and thinking he won't be held accountable for anything. Unless you pay attention his timeline is basically always just good looking PR speak posts, but we all know that's not the reality
Right? I'm watching this whole thing and don't understand how it's a controversy because GTS is doing all the right things regarding this, but then again, the Fedi is crawling with tech bros. Some hide better than others.
What I don't get is why the same ire isn't being directed at Misskey and its forks? Misskey (and Sharkey) accurately report the total number of registered users, but they do not accurately report the monthly active users. On FediDB, some Misskey instances show 0 MAUs (even big instances with a lot of users), while some report a frozen value based on what their MAUs was before Misskey switched to not reporting it.
@2something if i had to really speculate, it's because the misskey devs didn't call dansup out on appropriating AAVE about a month ago, which he absolutely was doing
Just to provide some perspective here, the endpoint in question exists specifically to be crawled by robots, nodeinfo is not a user-facing page and does not serve a purpose for federation. GTS could remove the endpoint if they’re not interested in it being crawled or serve 0s. The proposed behaviour seems to be more punitive than reasonable.
@Gargron but the real problem isn't what the software is doing, it's the extremely public accusation that another dev was acting maliciously at him personally
@chkdsk @jeremiah @Kiloku I'd say most people trying pixelfed have no idea who dansup is, most people couldn't tell you who runs any website unless they're billionaires. I guarantee most Tumblr users can't name the guy running that because he's not in the news every other day like Elon or Zuck. Dansup is a non entity to them.
TIL that my local library has a recording studio that you can book. I don't really have an immediate personal use for this, but it's pretty cool that it exists.
I know this is very first-world-problem, but now that I have my favourite #FountainPen back in working order, I had to make a tough decision about which pen gets the boot from the limited pen slots in my messenger bag. I imagine it's a bit like choosing favourites amongst one's children.
@R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵 I've actually gone down the rabbit hole of potentially making one. I do have a sewing machine available. I just need to learn how to actually use one.
More dead tree spam from the Conservative party addressed to my father (who has never lived here). This one was labelled "compliance request" with a red military stencil looking font that said "URGENT: CODE RED". This speaks to the way they percieve the intelligence of their supporters. I weep for the state of politics in this country.
Is there a way to tell #Emacs #org-mode to omit yhe TOC and headline numbers when exporting to a text or markdown file? I'm trying to implement a #JohnnyDecimal system, so I'm supplying my own numbers and the 00.00-index.org file essentially is the table of contents.
Edit: Because not all replies federate, here's the solution I ended up with:
Sorry I don't have an answer. Nonetheless as an Emacs user (albeit only rarely in org-mode) I'll be interested in the responses you get. Cheers, -Randy
I got a new phone because my old one was giving out on me. This one is a decided downgrade from the last one, but that's (mostly) fine.
Anyhow, the new phone doesn't support wireless charging. Because of this, I can no longer charge it on the night stand breside my bed. When I wake up in the morning, my impulse in my half-awake state is to just grab my phone and go, forgetting that it's now tethered to the wall. This was not going to end well for anyone, most especially not my charging cable/port.
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I run a pretty tight budget. Twice a year, I get a fun surprise from my domain registrar (because I have two domains with them). They both come with a "free business card generator" that I have never used, but whatever.
Anyhow, every time a domain comes up for renewal, it's expected, budgeted, and paid for. All is good.
Then, about a month later I open my email and see an unexpected additional "receipt" from them. This sends me into a brief panic until I realize it's a $0 receipt for the business card bullshit.
Not my circus, not my monkeys: good luck with all that My circus, my monkeys: I am running a successful monkey circus Not my circus, my monkeys: I am running a successful monkey-rental service My circus, not my monkeys: oh no, oh man
hey everyone, noelle (a friend here in phoenix) needs $400 by sunday to not be homeless for February. it REALLY doesnt leave a lot of time but if youve got anything it would be greatly appreciated
Its been over a month since I was let go and I still haven't found a lot of prospects for a new job. If you know anyone who is looking for an #iOS Developer for remote work I really could use the contact. Please boost.
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Aargh! I thought I'd worked out a system to help with my #ADHD, and it was working for a while. Unfortunately, it involved using the alarm on my watch, which my brain is now just starting to filter out as background noise.
You don't have to post yours openly. I think there are various forums for sharing in a more limited manner, i.e. direct with someone. You can find addresses and mail to them first.
Pretty sure even short hand written notes count, so you could leave some fancy notes for people in your life who you appreciate.
The argument that people are responsible for filtering their own feeds and so Content Warnings are unnecessary doesn't work when many of the ones arguing this also constantly make up new fucking nicknames for the people they're talking about, requiring the constant addition of new filters to block out unfunny snarky bullshit.
I don't (and won't in certain cases) CW everything ever but if there's something I know SOMEONE out there might want to filter I try to get specific keywords in my post they might filter
Like for instance I wasn't gonna CW photos of my gerbils, I'm sure someone out there absolutely doesn't want to see rodents though, so I tried to be sure the word gerbil was in there
To some degree it involves some level of mind reading but it's something
even moreso on a platform where 99% of the platform doesn't have an easy way to search the text of your post intentionally obfuscating words is silly. Like I don't recommend posting the words KiwiFarms on Bluesky but you don't need to find 500 new ways to put an asterisk in homestuck on here
I get both sides of the CW debates and I have my own personal lines on what I find sensible or not, and on this account versus my other one I also accept that I agreed to follow certain CW rules on this instance and that's part of being a community even if I may not feel the same way on my own where I make the rules
But imo the best argument for NOT having to CW certain things is making an attempt to make sure people's word filters will work. You may not always get it right since like I said it takes a certain level of guesswork, and sometimes you just forget in the moment. But if you keep coming up with new nicknames for the worst people on earth it becomes impossible to keep up.
@Demon Queen Lucretia 2025 Edition I end up collapsing (auto-CWing) all of the offending user's posts. I don't know if Mastodon has this functionality though. A block would also be effective.
Though even still, it's sometimes a game of whack-a-mole.
Reminder that intolerance of intolerance is not a paradox. Tolerance is not an absolute ethical stance, it is a social contract. If someone chooses to not participate in the social contract of tolerance, they do not get to benefit from it.
Who was the genius that decided that Cult Pens' search bar should disappear as you're typing in it on mobile? This person belongs in UX jail. #FountainPens
Hooray! I finally got my #BaystateBlue #FountainPen flowing properly again. It only took about a month of finicking with it. Now all I have to do is not leave ink to dry out in it for over a year again...
I’m not surprised that it was a Safari. I’ve had similar issues with ink drying out on my LAMY nibs (not as badly as Parker pens tho).
So that nib doesn’t dry out on me, I’ve started using that pen daily for journaling. Justttt in case, I also have a little water container to dip it in if it gets dry.
lori
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lori
in reply to lori • • •Honestly looking at FediDBs GitHub there's a lot of complaints about it's scraping behavior in general. Like it will keep repeatedly hitting domains that don't even have fedi servers anymore
github.com/fedidb/issues/issue…
Crawler should have exponential backoff on unavailable instances · Issue #47 · fedidb/issues
GitHublori
in reply to lori • • •And with a server as big as Universeodon missing how good are these stats anyway?
github.com/fedidb/issues/issue…
Where's George Takei? · Issue #48 · fedidb/issues
GitHublori
in reply to lori • • •Ultimately the real problem we aren't discussing though is that Dansup is accusing the GTS devs of doing this "for clout", when they are doing this for "leave me alone", which is the opposite of clout.
It's complete bullshit and he should be embarrassed to say it.
lori
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in reply to lori • • •And if his accusation is that this completely optional feature was added with "suspicious timing" to hurt him specifically
Then he's probably being overly optimistic about how quickly people update GTS
lori
in reply to lori • • •I'm definitely many updates behind because I am:
- lazy
I also chose GTS in the first place because I am:
- lazy
And it seemed like an easy install (and largely was)
Nick
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in reply to Nick • • •@linuxfiend the only reason I even feel like I need to update is I want post edits lmao
But god it sure is effort id have to expend
Ellie (migrated for summer)
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in reply to lori • • •i said this before on a standalone post but if theres one thing he could learn from his idol gargron is to shut the fuck up and actually work on his bullshit software (that doesn't even do its job properly lmao)
seriously say what you want about website boy but at least he was smart enough to back off and do his shit instead of acting like the next jesus christ
lori
in reply to chkdsk • • •@chkdsk it's funny because about a month ago during a meltdown Eugen literally told him DIRECTLY and PRIVATELY "hey man quit posting right now you're not doing yourself any favors" and he proceeded to post that message and keep posting for a bit and making everyone mad before he finally listened
A ton of his recent posts, including this GTS one, are full of nothing but people trying to tell him "hey man please stop posting this it's such a bad idea"
jeremiah
in reply to lori • • •he just had a post that was like "my project is only popular because I post"
Edit:
And here's the thing I don't think that's true. I think people want Instagram and TikTok alternatives and are willing to give it a try.
lori
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in reply to lori • • •@jeremiah @chkdsk well he'd get attention but
Y'know
The kind that doesn't translate to signups
chkdsk
in reply to jeremiah • • •personally while an instagram-like service has its use (visual artists would like it a lot) even though just making an alt frontend for mastodon/other existing softwares would do the job as well...
loops was a fucking grave mistake. not only because that form is an evil product of modern internet designed specifically to addict you and worsen your attention span, but also it just Won't fucking Work. tiktok is a cash cow because it has an algorithm designed to keep you sucked in for hours
so its just a dumb fucking thing that makes no sense. and i think posting short vids on existing microblogging side of fedi software is good as is
lori
in reply to chkdsk • • •@chkdsk @jeremiah anyone who cares about fedi would have cloned vine instead
Small file sizes, hard to monetize so no big financial incentives, and in 6 seconds you can tell one tightly thought out joke or show your dog and can't spread weird misinformation
chkdsk
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in reply to chkdsk • • •@chkdsk @jeremiah out of the tiktoks I've seen the only good and memorable one I can think of that couldn't have fit in a vine is the "it goes in the square hole" one
That one needed to be long
lori
in reply to lori • • •@chkdsk @jeremiah I have a burner tiktok account that I only made to keep an eye on people buying plots of land in the desert or swamp attempting to build communes with absolutely no skills in anything
Just because I have Strange Interests
lori
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Gildilinie Gremlin 🏳️⚧️
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in reply to Gildilinie Gremlin 🏳️⚧️ • • •@gildilinie oh I've been into commune people on and off since well before Cohost the problem is you have to find the ones that spend enough time online that they post enough about it that you get the details
Luckily these days more and more ill advised communes are being started by tiktok people
lori
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When you formulate it like that, yeah. You're right about loops.
I care more about Instagram because I've got artist friends who rely on Instagram for studios sales and courting galleries, and I mostly just want institutions and artists to be off big tech.
I've got a Pixelfed account on the flagship instance that I'm migrating now (didn't realize Dan never worked on meaningful export functionality until I went to use it).
I do like having a photo focused account/app separated from the microblogging one.
lori
in reply to jeremiah • • •@jeremiah @chkdsk I keep wondering why we need servers dedicated to image posts instead of like...front ends
Maybe there's something I'm missing but it feels like you could just have Mastodon or GTS or whatever and just have a front end that filters down to just image posts, or a front end that shows your posts in a portfolio view
Kiloku - Secretário do Caos
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in reply to lori • • •you see
anyone with a brain would apologize for being stupid
meanwhile dansup would start doing olympic grade mental gymnastics just to make it like he was right
lori
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in reply to lori • • •- start any project
- make drama
- pose as a disruptor, opposed by various groups
- inflate own audience numbers
- sell
Tak!
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in reply to lori • • •I don't run a fedi server, but I do run a regular website and any crawler that disobeys my robots.txt gets severely mistreated by me, without shame. If you break the well-established convention that robots.txt represents -- I don't care why -- then you get what you get.
This feels very firmly like the FO side of FA, FO.
lori
in reply to Lnklnx • • •@lnklnx ironically FAFO is what he posted in what I think is yet another deleted post about how he was going to "spill tea" about what GTS is doing
Unfortunately the reactions so far have been people going "Dansup this seems fine why are you assuming malice here"
Lnklnx
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in reply to lori • • •It haunts me that he didn't even say that, he said "spread tea," this language is so appropriated he doesn't even know how to work it properly.
Altho, speaking of language, he calls this an "inconvenience" here, when instead it's "lack of interest in shared values including on technical basics so basic even I, who doesn't touch computers, knows is basic."
mastodon.social/@dansup/113956…
lori
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in reply to lori • • •@Gargron but the real problem isn't what the software is doing, it's the extremely public accusation that another dev was acting maliciously at him personally
That's worse behavior than anything else here
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