I was just followed by an account(?) on mastinator.com. After careful consideration I decided to block the entire domain. Anyone (well, almost anyone) who wants to follow me is welcome, of course, but not anonymously. That's not cool.
I may reverse this decision in the future if I get more information, but, for now, this is it.
I found this. Hope it helps everyone avoid the FUD:
https://boyter.org/posts/mastinator-activitypub-breaking-assumptions/
I must admit that I'm sympathetic to the author (@boyter, I think): it's true that it's difficult to test an AP implementation without some kind of infrastructure in place.
But I'm also with @aral: this should be opt-in.
Wow. That blog post turned dark really quickly: “You're lucky I'm not evil, for if I was, you'd be royally fucked, BITCHES!”
(Ok, I exaggerated for comedic purposes, but _not by that much_.)
I'm still sympathetic with the auhor, though, and agree with most of what he says there.
