Post #1629297
2026-04-24 10:34 UTC
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@p@fsebugoutzone.org 2026-04-24 10:46
@Mammal@shitposter.world @fish@detroitriotcity.com @icedquinn@blob.cat @light@noc.social @phnt@fluffytail.org @sampler@freebeerextremist.com @silverpill@mitra.social @strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz Nothing of value was lost. There was a lot of the same hand-wringing: "they're the most active instance!" and it's like...do you want to see that activity? For at least a month, the *majority* of their activity was a single account that posted three times per second. I saw the bot, killed the bot, could not tell Gab about the bot because Gab blocked FSE. (Gleason was working at Gab at the time, I told Gleason and offered to help Gab quell the bot problem and told him to pass along the offer to Colbert; Gleason agreed but Colbert says Gleason never relayed the message. At the time, it was in my own interest to stop the flood at the source because Gab was essentially DoSing FSE by constantly flooding us with bot shit. I got to do k-means and come up with interesting ways to automatically detect bots, I was having fun.) And now it's handwringing, what if we lose Mastodon? What *if*? They're as bad as the Gablins. There are people using fedi to communicate and there are people using fedi to broadcast and try to push their agenda and, you know, fuck the latter category. FSE vs GAB.jpg blockfse.png blockrecommendation.png fse--subversive_neonazis_and_communists.jpg gold.png high_iq.png make_fediverse_great_again.png whole_mentality.png