@anja

Hier mittels den Anweisungen z.B.

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moderating/

Blocken, muten oder Instanzen blocken ist auch manchmal zu empfehlen, je nachdem. Hmm, was gibt es noch… Es gibt bestimmt noch ein paar Sachen. Nicht auf alle Links klicken, die man bekommt. Aufpassen auf Tracking-URLs etc. Auch können Hashtags im Profil helfen, z.B. #nobots, #nonsfw etc. Man kann auch darauf hinweisen, dass man mit leeren Profilen nichts zu tun haben will.(1/2)

@hiker @tux

So... not a topic getting much interest, let me decide by myself.

Not a DoS as requests are coming every other second... not blocked by fail2ban as IP's are numerous and changing... not causing any trouble, I don't see what they can achieve by doing this as requests seem legitimate and reading random posts... but clearly not human nor social interactions, so undesirable. Maybe scraping content for AI training?

I will block the offending IP's this evening. This should not affect our other Singaporean users, who, let's be honest, are (understandably) not very many. Nor will it affect federation as user agent is voluntarily misleading.

I encourage other administrators to monitor this kind of case and to take action if necessary. Let's try and avoid scraping bots when we can.

@ischris
Oh gosh I think there is. Is it that you put #nobot or #nobots in your profile? Something like that?

I think the account @FediTips can perhaps help.

@thisismissem @thenexusofprivacy

1. Thinking that discovery flag set to false should be a general opt-out, for sure. Question, is there a user level way to query a profile for how the discovery flag is set?

2. A user might not what to set the discovery flag false, but still does not want to be included in packs. The idea to have a #NoPacks (or #NoBots) flag in the profile seems like a good one, unless and until such a flag could be integrated into the app.

@cstross
Oh I know #nobots

@ondrejsevcik copyright? You do. But you consent to it being quoted around and copied to all parts of the fediverse, implicitly independent of protocol. You may also consent to indexing, in your mastodon settings. You may explicitly exclude bots and protocol bridges from these consents via the #NoBots and #NoBridges hashtags --- though that is social consent. The actual legal consent here depends on the country, of course. But you almost always have copyright of your own posts.

The mastodon non-profit does not own anything besides mastodon.social.

To give the public domain copyright rights, you must explicitly say so.

@si_irini
#RegainPrivacy #Suche

Nein.

Die neue Detailsuche wie (Bsp.):

"PII from:@HistoPol"

...funktioniert NUR von meinem Profil aus, da ich beim Opt-in fmdafür aus Sicherheitsgründen nicht mitmache.

PS:
Ach ja, es gibt auch noch einen grossen Metasuchdienst der #NoBots respektiert.

@mina @SilviaMarton @evelynefoerster @2ndStar@astronomy.social

@si_irini
You really ought to read #TimChambers article again.
Massive data extraction through #screenscraping has been happening for years:

https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/111575306870943698

The only real defense is complete anonymity and deleting old posts after a week or so (the latter being unacceptable to me.)

Someone has been creating a meta-#searchengine for the #Fediverse. He respects #nobots (and something else.)

Don't recall the name @ present.

@OlDude82 @mina @evelynefoerster @MaJ1