#fediblock #mastinator
A site called Mastinator (https://mastinator.com) has started aggregating and republishing toots without permission. It creates accounts with your handle and follows you to get your toots (e.g., @aral@mastinator.com, which, just to make clear, is not me).
Cheers for the extra info! I’ll take a deeper look, I’ve written a quick summary from what I could put together so far, but it’s definitely worth a deeper exploration of! It’s a little concerning in general - even if the folks claim it’s harmless.
Do we know anything about how it is doing discovery? This is definitely the kind of thing I want to be covering on the podcast!
Some more information
https://gitea.moe/lamp/activitypub-proxy
https://tabletop.social/@host/109570167169885078
Additional information for my reference tomorrow: https://honk.boyter.org/u/boyter/h/kWQ5rD1LG55p83wJmw
I’m not across the technical side unfortunately. I’m guessing it’s related to this https://chaos.social/@rixx/109562426307905853
Might be worth talking to Aral about it? Maybe even see if he wants to do an interview :)
Cheers for the extra info! I’ll take a deeper look, I’ve written a quick summary from what I could put together so far, but it’s definitely worth a deeper exploration of! It’s a little concerning in general - even if the folks claim it’s harmless.