Mark @rateldajer@octodon.social
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.
@tats that's a strange research project for them to work on though isn't it?
Just imagine one edge case we're not seeing for now: many people using it (let's say millions) and following a very famous person
That person must have their own instance at this point, at least.
... what happens when they toot?
just imagine the enormous peaks and lag it'll do. And we're not even talking about media.
How would Mastodon realistically handle Katy Perry? I have no idea.
@Siphonay wow, that hasn't happened yet?
quick someone register birdsite.social and make it a Mastodon instance
@Chaos_99 wouldn't then the security issues of your content on each server become more of a problem? As long as it's all encrypted it would be fine. But mastadon admins can read everythign right now. I think that's fine for chatting like this, for docs I would be more wary.
This is the hole I throw mansplainers down. (It's a well, actually)
It has occurred to me that we don't know where all the #trekkies are hiding.
#startrek #deepspacenine #DS9 #enterprise #voyager #STDiscovery #STOS #kaaahn #nextgeneration #klingon #picard #spock #kirk #uhura #worf #vulcan #romulan #borg #bajoran #ferengi !
Where should we meet?
Oh, sorry, it's obvious.
#unimatrixzero
That would make a great instance name by the way.
@shel wait, so you're a "future librarian" like, can you get me a 21st history compendium because I'm dying to know how this works out.
@takeshitakenji how about anti-brand Markovian bots?
Hello everyone I'd like to introduce the new @ambassador from https://a.weirder.earth
This is my attempt to fix the followbot problem. If you're an instance admin, you can install an ambassador bot on your instance.
The bot will boost the most popular toots from your instance. Someone can follow your ambassador to have your instance's best content added to their federated feed.
Feedback welcome, code here: github.com/mbilokonsky/ambassador
@wolfteeth @nev that's my main issue with it, only including people who actually have a connection to your local instance community is a good thing. If we hear everyone all the time we hear no one.
@SuzanEraslan I haven't read any of those, but Ursula Le Guin for the win
Rule of Mastodition #5 - Everything that lasts and has value costs somebody something. So pay your host. The great chain of profit will reward you in the end.
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@wonderfall - Is there something like this witches.town instance block list for social.targaryen.house?
Is there any way these followbots could just, y'know, follow each other?
@Gargoylezoo so you definitely are posting cool stuff, just in a future timeframe, no one who does that much math refrains from doing cool things eventually.
