Hello everyone today I would like to discuss something not too pleasant involving harassment in my DMs. As well as address the issue of calling people eggs.
So earlier someone decided to message me on Matrix trying to claim I'm not cis because I post in c/196 which is a stupid claim on its own but it gets worse because when I pointed out that I'm Agender they started trying to argue that it's not real and that "everyone is either male or female". On top of that they tried to argue that I'm transfem in denial by pulling up an old reddit post on ACNH. They also decided to send me an onion link for DIY-HRT and also AI generated porn of my sona as a post-OP MtF fingering (I know it was AI gen because it had deformed paws and a fake watermark).
This behavior is unacceptable and if it was the first time I wouldn't be making this post.
I miss when postal fans were all edgy dudes and Russians. The community has been taken over by insane trannies and communists that openly fantasize about killing people that aren't retarded
@mint@sjw@Moon i am also retarded and didn't notice the domain. i thought bluesky has a global janny feature which allows to restrict post federation through all instances
thanks guys, you pestered me to unblock unauthenticated access, and immediately this dickhead scraped as many timelines as he could, my logs are filled with his requests.
there is currently a bot inside MIT IP space, address 18[.]4[.]38[.]176, scanning fedi at large. i have confirmed this with 5+ unrelated instance admins, large and small instances, across mastodon/misskey/pleroma/akkoma.
the bot is poorly behaved. i have observed it making repeated requests, multiple times per second, for the exact same paths (the paths being, generally: user profiles, specific posts, and sometimes following links in posts). returning 403s does not stop this activity. one of my domains received hundreds of additional requests despite replying with 403 to all of them. i have also seen it make requests for paths containing html tags - seems like a badly written parser. the purpose of these requests and what data is being gathered is unclear.
PTR on the ip returns sts-drand03.mit.edu. a quick web search for "mit drand" brings back https://mitsloan.mit.edu/faculty/directory/david-g-rand and his personal website: https://davidrand-cooperation.com/ (note: other IPs in the /24 also have names in the PTR which match up with names of MIT faculty, but only the .176 IP appears to be involved in this activity).
seems he's doing research into "misinformation" and "fake news" on social media. he also appears to be on fedi! so @Drand, given this activity is sourced from an IP with your name on it, could you share the purpose of this traffic? what data is being collected and how is it being used? do you plan to respect robots.txt or identify yourself in your useragent? is there a process for instance admins to opt out of this activity other than blocking the source IP?
