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Mikka, MD
Mikka, MD
@mikka@mikka.is  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

Recently we have seen a massive spike of calls to /api/v1/instance/domain_blocks, from all kinds of players, including Google, Microsoft, Chinese IP addresses, a server farm in Cyprus and one belonging to an online casino farm on Malta. Those happen on medic.cafe as well as #Hule, which does not support domain blocks (yet).

I am wondering: what is the value of those (~4k today) spiders? Who would benefit from knowing which instances are blocked by whom? I am aware, that there's a bot run by an "edgy" MAGA/Hatepost/Memefarm instance, but this massive interest across actors makes me wonder.

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@smallcircles@social.coop replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@mikka

I think the #AI bots are fed and 'know' the entire #API of most #fedi apps, and just walk out each and every pathway of our #SocialGraph, in search for stuff to scrape.

AI data hunger comes on top of #SurveillanceCapitalism data-is-the-new-oil exploitation of personal information, and our 🥧 #PII is attractively served in this largely wholly unprotected #fediverse of ours.

Lastly a medical-themed instance more than anything will attract data vultures: 😋 Juicy #privacy-sensitive nuggets.

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@josemurilo@mato.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

#AlgorithmicTakeover: "…the friends-and-family era of the “ #socialgraph” is over, having been replaced with what Meta grimly calls “ #unconnectedcontent”—posts from accounts that you may or may not follow, chosen for you by a recommendation #algorithm.
…a natural byproduct of people choosing to share fewer posts of their own, forcing companies like #Meta to find alternatives. “Longtime users’ friend lists have … become an often-outdated archive of people they once knew."

https://www.platformer.news/ftc-loses-meta-case-analysis/

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@josemurilo@mato.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

#AlgorithmicTakeover: "…the friends-and-family era of the “ #socialgraph” is over, having been replaced with what Meta grimly calls “ #unconnectedcontent”—posts from accounts that you may or may not follow, chosen for you by a recommendation #algorithm.
…a natural byproduct of people choosing to share fewer posts of their own, forcing companies like #Meta to find alternatives. “Longtime users’ friend lists have … become an often-outdated archive of people they once knew."

https://www.platformer.news/ftc-loses-meta-case-analysis/

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The simple test that blew up the FTC's case against Meta

How one experiment defined the social networking market better than the government did. PLUS: Gemini 3 arrives
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