Post #3475224
2026-06-29 01:11 UTC
@riverpunk@defcon.social @alice@lgbtqia.space @blogpost@tagpush.app ... then later Evan posted (see screenshot) that – I find this incredible – he's taking the fact that a instance/server has been set to be an open relay by it's admin as blanket permission to scrape any (possibly every) user on that server and to create accounts with similar names that replicate the user's posts, all without informing the user beforehand. I'm not that familiar with the other bots you mentioned, but this behaviour seems outside the norm.
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@evan@cosocial.ca 2026-06-29 09:08
@LiamGilmartin@mastodon.ie @riverpunk@defcon.social @alice@lgbtqia.space @blogpost@tagpush.app that's not the case. tags.pub has one feed per hashtag, not per user. So, there's @linux and @fediverse and @ireland. Alice uses a personal hashtag and a feed was created to broadcast it, too. But it's based on the hashtag, not the username.