Does it count as “suddenly” if he was 91? I mean you sort of expect it at that age.

I think that was an old rant from before we were even federated, as to why I didn’t want to bother at the time. It was an exaggeration, overall we’ve been getting along great with everyone else we’ve federated with since then.

I wasn’t completely off base, for example a bunch of instances defederated us simply because we’re “EH 2.0”, even though they never interacted with us. At the time we were already defederated by a couple of the more zealous ones. The fine gentleman who runs Fediseer is recommending to everyone that they defederate us for being “chuds”. It’s all pretty childish.

Hey, I just randomly stumbled on this and thought I’d give you a reply, for what it’s worth. We’ve got a whitelist because there are thousands of Fediverse instances out there and many of them host questionable content (things like loli porn). It’s too much risk to ignore them, and too much effort to weed them out.

We’ve added everyone listed on join-lemmy.org who hasn’t de-federated us. I guess if you’re not on there then we just haven’t noticed you yet. I’ve added your instance to our whitelist now.

If anyone else also wants to be added and isn’t yet, please do reach out.

As you can tell by the comments in this thread, many people feel like they know us well based on what they have heard. I guess we are guilty of having a handful of members who used to be on the old exploding-heads instance, so we must be EH 2.0. All anyone would have to do is open our site and browse through the endless pages of shitposts for themselves to figure out how silly that is.

There’s probably something to this, if you run a paid relay then it plays to your interests if free ones drown in spam. Devs have similar incentives.

It was some shitty Atari clone

For what it’s worth, my relay wss://n.ok0.org is free and deals with this bot through the write policy.

It’s not even a very sophisticated spam attack and blocking or muting the bridge is a dumb solution.

Anyway I have mitigated this type of attack on wss://n.ok0.org - it was a bit challenging to do because I want to keep the flow of non spammy notes going, my write policy is reasonably fancy now.

To give you some idea of the scale, here’s the past 12 hours in the logs:

This is not even the only spam attack, there have been others going on for a while now, this one is just the most visible/annoys the most people because the spam is replies, so it generates notifications.

Mitigating this for my relay doesn’t really matter in the great scheme of things, people would have to exclusively only use my relay for this to benefit them, the spam will keep coming through on all other relays and not all of them will deal with it. Clients have the most impact in dealing with this shit.

The shitty bit is this only amplifies calls for walled off relay access (behind fees or whatever), which undermines the idea of Nostr.

Reminds me of this:

North Korea doesn’t have accountability, the ruling class is corrupt and rules with impunity. They have scapegoats, sometimes you have to sacrifice a few officials to shift the blame and make it seem like you’re taking action.

I agree with this

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I was just curious if you extended the same views equally, there’s often a dissonance where people hate Christianity as being outdated, but praise other religions as being wonderful cultural heritage.

Don’t want to answer that one?

Sounds like my kind of place!

She’s always liked older guys, good on her for doing her thing.

Do you hate the Muslims too?

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Heresy, coffee is the best, life would suck so badly without coffee

This made me lol

The secret service walking the president’s dog