Great point! Whose to say Amazon deletes Parler's data when they leave?
https://rayn.bo/@Raynbo/105529137677079627
Raynbo@rayn.bo - The major concern we have with Parler now is that since they had been using Amazon’s AWS all along, how much data has been collected on everyone?
...and what's the equivalent of quote-retweet in Mastodon? Surely that exists.
@pete Maybe Pleroma can do it. I don't know.
https://counter.fedi.live/objects/5024628d-2189-450b-8ee3-6c72cfef8313
@verretor judging from my nginx access logs a lot of people are using Pleroma.
@stephanlivera @kalle @pete @verretor Twitter without dunking on people? This is never gong to take off.
@ajtowns @stephanlivera @kalle @verretor your wrong!! stupid dumb dumb head!!!
@ajtowns @stephanlivera @kalle @verretor Though seriously, looks like we're getting our first bot-like trolls. It'll be interesting to see if the blocking tools we have work well enough to keep that under control. A good solution might be to use Lightning to make it nom-free to create endless bot accounts.
@ajtowns @stephanlivera @kalle @verretor For the record, that was an intentional typo. One of very few. :P
@pete @stephanlivera @kalle @verretor I figured, but couldn't think of a lower effort response so went with what I had.
@pete @verretor maybe it was this one I read: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/07/cage-the-mastodon/#design-decisions
If you want to automatically drop messages you can do it using Pleroma's Message Rewrite Facility, it's extremely flexible. I don't do that though, I just take action when people report bots.
@crunklord420 Heh, yeah, I get the feeling. Still, it's hard for them to avoid creating software that's useful for the rest of us. :P
+1 re: Pleroma. Gonna have to try it out some time.
MRF can do anything. For a while this server had one installed that automatically imported any emoji we saw from remote servers which we did not already have. It was nice
@dielan @crunklord420 Not gonna lie: my first thought when you said "automatically import" was "how can I turn this into a security exploit"... :P
...so does it import the magic keyprase? Like : bitcoin : for 
?
Nah its harmless. I dont know the specifics, nor can i write in Elixir, but yeah if a post from a remote server came to us with emoji text we didnt have saved it downloaded the resulting posts png file and loaded it up
Its not running anymore but we have a ton of emojis as a result of the short time it was on
Most MRFs are for automated moderation, but you really can do anything
https://docs-develop.pleroma.social/backend/configuration/mrf/
@crunklord420
@dielan @crunklord420 Ah, yeah, that's fine modulo theoretical "illegal data" legal risks. Mastodon has that anyway inherently due to how it works. As do tons of protocols.... Hell, think about "illegal data" in the Certificate Transparency logs. :P
@pete Nah. I take a screenshot and I paste the link.