Edit: I’ve been corrected about some of the claims I made about Content Nation. I accept that it wasn’t designed to be a scraper, though it presents as one to admins viewing web server logs. I will be more careful with my language.
I was also wrong about the technical details of how it works; thanks sincerely for the lesson.
It was not cool for some vigilante to deliberately cause Content Nation to cache CSAM and then report them to the authorities. Fuck the person who did that.
@triton if I check my instance (mastodon.online), I can see an that an entity exists. However, it is being marked as a "group".
@triton I do love how on Mastodon people do immediately call out fishy actors. Like those little birds work together to protect themselves and drive away a big predatory bird.
(No offense to any big predatory birds here.)
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@Sparrowlicious Oh, Kiliora is running Mbin, which if I understand correctly which is a federated alternative to things like Reddit - it's a discussion forum for things found on the Internet. The original content on such services is typically the discussion, not the original post. For Fedi posts, it makes sense for the whole post to be pulled in and have the discussion attached to it, rather than being a link like on Reddit.
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@Sparrowlicious And as I mentioned, nigh-wholesale mirroring of accounts is part of federation, so when that happens, that's usually just the server's local copy of your posts so people on Kilioa can follow you and view your posts. But because Kilioa is a Reddit-like content aggregator and discussion forum, it styles these posts like any other post, with up/downvoting, etc. You probably don't see this additional activity happening because it's foreign to Mastodon and Pixelfed.
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@triton hey, this might not be known to you, but the ActivityPub API isn't push-only; There's a whole bunch of GET requests in there, e.g., retrieving the actor document, retrieving the followers collection, the featured posts collection, the likes collection, etc.
Collections can be updated via push (POST to the actor's inbox) or they can be synchronised by GET request too.
@triton Not a scraper. Just a poorly behaved Fedi client plug-in for a publishing platform. https://wedistribute.org/2024/03/contentnation-mastodons-toxicity/
The ContentNation service itself appears to be a content publishing platform, not unlike Floatplane, but with Fedi integration so that users on their platform can be followed by users in the Fediverse - and their users are able to read and interact with posts and replies. Their site is here: https://contentnation.net/en/
The dev is also on Fedi - https://noc.social/@sash/ - and says he's changed his integration to be outgoing only so it's more like an announcement list instead.
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