Abu Godot @abgd@octodon.social
A tableau of smoke and cinders beneath, we embraced as the fire became a prism, an LCD kaleidoscope surrounding us. And in that moment, it was as though all the world was just one great, unending conflagration.
I just went around and did some basic nmap-ing on the most popular Mastodon instances, and there's some seriously sketchy stuff in there. Publicly reachable Postgres servers, tons of open internal HTTP ports, SSH with password login, multiple Mastodon instances that seem to be running on mail server VMs, …
I guess if you're just running a single-user instance for yourself, sure, but those are all 2000+ user instances.
I'll give the French one thing, we gave each other stupid nicknames like Mastobaters and tootsiepoops but they came up with Mastonauts, which is actually cool and a word you can say to your grandparents
@yair Yeah, true.
@yair Lol my first reading of that was "poop mailer".
But I was thinking this system would forego the puns and just represent each instance name as a unique set of 3 or 4 emoji...
@Antanicus @jd "can't" is a very strong word in terms of #infosec. Nothing is perfect, but there we'd at least not be typing directly into USGov't database...
@yair I haven't done the math yet, but considering how many emoji there are, I'm guessing three might be enough to encode a larger namespace than the fediverse would ever need.
@yair I've been thinking the same, lol!
@jd @Antanicus Or maybe just some etherpad on a privacy-friendly host like framapad.org might work as well?
@mux2000 I think I prefer "hashmoji"
(This was, of course, inspired by @nolan and his use of :trumpet:.:coffee: to denote toot.cafe)
I fantasized last night about an algorithm that converts instance names or even full handles to a small set of emoji to give each a unique fingerprint that takes up little screen space but allows instant visual recognition.
does anyone think this would actually be a good idea?
@jd Make it editable to all with link!
#Mastodon Leftist?
Socialist? Anarchist? Progressive? Communist? Radical whatever (except Right)??.... find, meet and join others here...
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uovldxJBREGbpCZFUWIboCSd-wB8EHHQ0sKkm44jES8/edit#gid=0
Please spread this URL.
thx,
jd
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The federated network as it currently stands certainly presents user discovery challenges, but I'll tell y'all what, putting together a home feed made up of the output of some fantastic minds has been pleasantly effortless by watching y'all post in federated public feeds.
Good job, y'all, give yourselves a nice round of boosts.
in other news: depression.
yeesh.
watched Captain Fantastic. it was really thought-provoking, complex, moving.
https://anticapitalist.party/media/bDozEcNio-5mHkJxi6k
#Anarchist bunnies
Placards: General strike, Ⓐ
Banner: We don't want a bigger piece of the pie. We want the whole fluffing factory.
