IP Address: 142.132.225.129
User-Agent string: "fedi-block-api (https://gitlab.com/EnjuAihara/fedi-block-api)"
Why: actively compiling a database of who blocks who, expressly marketed to those who want that information for retaliatory harassment.
page snapshots for posterity: ① the website (note the “suggested” ban reason search string), ② the gitlab.com page (contains racial slur at the bottom)
It scrapes both pleroma and mastodon once a week, the next run will be on the 10th of August if any of you want to figure out fun ways to poison that data.
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@moonbolt Hm. So, I was thinking of making something that would let one figure out if a particular instance blocks their instance[*], because I end up responding into the void once in a while (someone boosts a post from an instance that blocks mine and I spend time writing a reply to it; even if I always checked /about/more of the appropriate instance they sometimes fail to mention suspensions/fail to mention all suspensions there). Would you personally consider such a thing abusive in any way?
[*] I was thinking of two ways:
a) making use of the way "suspending" works in Mastodon: the instance considers signatures from the blocked instance invalid -- so just send some random public post from my instance there and see what's the response,
b) try to find a post on the maybe-blocked instance that should have appeared in a thread on the maybe-blocking instance and see if it's actually visible via a web request there.
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The original post was complaining[*] about basically a search engine that allows one to find every instance who blocks some particular instance. This is not what I would want to have: I would want to have something that answers the question of "does instance X block my instance". IIUC the undesired thing was aggregating that across all Xs and making that aggregation easy to access (i.e. easier than doing a web search for "inurl:about/more <instancename>" and manually grepping through results).
[*] for some value thereof, possibly weird word choice
> It's not too much trouble to respond into the void occasionally, is it?
I've just counted: happened to me 10 times last month, including 1.5 times when I spent nontrivial time and expected (and still expect) that the person would be interested in my response and would want to respond in a way I would find interesting. I'm not sure if that's occasional~
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@robryk .hg Based on the original post, yeah, don't do that?
It's not too much trouble to respond into the void occasionally, is it?