Victor GeversIn the last 24 hours, 2664 new domain names were registered, which contain the name mastodon.
696 Mastodon servers are running, of which 259 are deployed at DigitalOcean (using the Mastodon Droplet). https://marketplace.digitalocean.com/apps/mastodon
Jons Mostovojs@0xDUDE I'm embarassingly one of the 259. And it's not a testament to how easy it is to deploy masto tbh.
But very good marketing.
Michael Downey 🧢
rschramp@jonn Cool. Which version are you running? And how do you keep it updated?
@0xDUDE I'm updating the system around it (I assume it runs in Docker) with `apt`. I assume it runs behind nginx reverse proxy to not expose all the vulnerabilities it inevitably has. Masto itself seems to have an OK compatibility thanks to the underlying protocol being reasonably stable.
So yeah, I mostly just hope. If my assumptions are wrong, then it'll be a funny situation to remember, and I'll probably start a clean instance running the #elixir implementation of masto.
@0xDUDE sorry, one more thing security-wise: I treat this server as completely disposable, I assume public access.
helix2301@0xDUDE I’m using @mastohost
Maarten den Braber@0xDUDE hmm, only 696 - that's actually less than I expected
@mdbraber 696 that the Observer project detected via domain name registrations, certificates, and subdomain discovery. Since yesterday there is a continuous endpoint scan running on 1.8 billion websites. We can only query based on what is retrieved from publicly available sources and what is within the limit of the hardware and software without breaking it. 🙂
@0xDUDE ah, so you're not using the APIs from instances to find other instances (haven't dug into it but I think there are tools doing that)
@mdbraber Yes. With endpoint detection (and scraping) we can find discover new domains. We are monitoring a lot of TLD mutations but we do not have access to all the zones. So I added/api/v1/instance/peers to the fingerprinting and also getting servers from it since yesterday.
Tim Myers@0xDUDE I’m using Cloudron on a Linode.