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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 21/09/2026

eh sure 3 replies sounds good ill keep it up

xormetric @tentacle.expert · 10/09/2026

does anyone still use the piracy feed there are still some users clearly but idk if it justifies the infra cost & the experience probably sucked cause ive been doing moderation like once every 2 weeks will gladly hand over the src and the db (posts + ban list) if anyone cares to take it from me

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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 07/08/2026

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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 09/02/2026

you should give money to juliet ko-fi.com/notjuliet

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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 30/11/2025

removed "torrenting" from the regex

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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 24/09/2025

(sorry for not actively moderating the feed nowadays, that stuff is just so uninteresting and annoying to see that it killed the interest i had in reading through the feed. hopefully this helps)

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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 24/09/2025

probably gonna be banning more news outlets so that in conjunction with the above, we can hopefully get rid of the 100s of identical posts that go "did you know vpn torrent?????" every single time a streaming service raises their pricing

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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 24/09/2025

posts quoting feed-banned users, and replies in threads originally started by feed-banned users, are now ignored by the feed. n.b. this was already the case for posts directly replying to banned users. these restrictions do not apply to replies/quotes by certified pirates.

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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 21/08/2025

i just lost interest over time, maybe since when i hit like 900-1k followers it took me long to admit it to myself but i didn't derive joy from it anymore, so i got rid of it. not much more to it

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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 21/08/2025

i still moderate the feed once every few days lol i just have no reason to post on this account or check its following timeline anymore

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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 05/08/2025

posts with more than 50% of their length being facets (links or mentions) are now ignored from the piracy feed

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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 19/07/2025

i have a bias towards extension fields on existing lexicons because it allows firehose consumers to be more stateless (whether that's relevant depends on your case ofc) but if you're editing records then yeah, sidecar, i'd consider breaking cid links enough of a problem to avoid the other approach

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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 16/07/2025

anyways yeah makes sense i'll keep the account up but like i do want to retire its usage as much as possible

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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 16/07/2025

fucked up that hashtags outside post content have been in the app.bsky.feed.post lexicon for all this time and they're still not part of social-app

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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 16/07/2025

where went through a bunch of my early posts and i'm not really seeing it tbh

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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 15/07/2025

you'll want to interviewfor.red and then rank up to power user if you wanna join AB (which is much better than BBT)

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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 11/07/2025

why are people so obsessed with vpns as the single default censorship circumvention measure. this shit is bypassable with a ublock filter don't go paying some other random company just so they mitm your social media

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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 11/07/2025

i think "intentionally implement regional blocks as easy as possible to bypass" is as much opposition as you'll get tbh. pretty good track record on that front

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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 11/07/2025

do you think one could get this merged into one of the default ublock lists lol

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mary🐇 @mary.my.id · 11/07/2025

github.com/bluesky-social… added a new field to ipcc so you need another ublock filter `||bsky.app/ipcc$replace=/(?<="countryCode":").+?(?=")/US/` `||bsky.app/ipcc$replace=/(?<="isAgeRestrictedGeo":").+?(?=")/false/`

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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 10/07/2025

yeah, and feedgens need the same firehose as the appviews, so any attempt to disallow consumption of the firehose is an actual loss of feature even for users of the official bluesky app/pds/etc

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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 10/07/2025

let me be clearer i guess if Bluesky PBC wants to make users of non-policy-compliant appviews (e.g. zeppelin) invisible their only option is to make all third-party-PDS users invisible (probably making all their engineers resign), because they cannot tell which users are using which appviews

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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 10/07/2025

...which is why zeppelin exists

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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 10/07/2025

not as far as i'm aware (which is why i was making the post)

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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 10/07/2025

i guess if you're on the PBC-hosted PDSes? but transferring a bsky-hosted account to another PDS is like trivial, i kind of assume anyone that cares about the censorship resistance of their account/timeline is on some third-party PDS

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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 10/07/2025

yes, the censorship resistance relies on you making the bare minimum of effort to use the infra that does not censor

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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 10/07/2025

a corporation with a hierarchical structure which has locked open the network such that infrastructure can exist that does not comply with its policy decisions (e.g. zeppelin) and PDS owners can set PDS_BSKY_APP_VIEW environment variables to so their users transparently use it instead of PBC infra

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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 10/07/2025

bluesky can't even tell whether a user is a zeppelin user tho

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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 10/07/2025

you cannot derive conclusions on any piece of action by "Bluesky" before knowing where it is enforced it could be any combination of the bsky.app, api.bsky.app, the bsky.network relay, the bsky.network PDSes, or bluesky-social/pds and you especially should not *doom* before knowing which it is

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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 10/07/2025

it's more a function of how long you've been on the site and which random list makers dislike you what you've done tbh

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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 10/07/2025

would anything even be lost if i deleted this account

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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 01/07/2025

my server is down so I can't check all my subscriptions but some obvious ones buttondown.com/hillelwayne/... beyondloom.com/blog/rss.xml

beyondloom.com

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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 29/06/2025

perhaps if you think "everyone else is just an extremist" or "politics just divides people" consider instead that it might be that your positions are so extreme and make you so unlikable that people want to keep you as divided as they can from them

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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 29/06/2025

i wonder what happened to him to make a guy that "doesn't want to talk about politics" (spends all his time finding political posts to argue under) i wonder what happened to make him emotionally evaluate politics as "crap" and how that might influence the manner he engages with the subject

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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 29/06/2025

have you gone to both to compare

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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 29/06/2025

have you like ever even googled systemic racism. have you ever heard in your life of the concept of incentives.

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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 29/06/2025

the only emotion one feels at reading your replies is befuddlement at how someone could be so fucking clueless. the only emotion one feels while interacting with you is frustration at having to attempt dealing with your cluelessness.

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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 29/06/2025

you're cycling through misogyny racism and ableism so fast it's crazy you don't recognize yourself as a fascist

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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 25/06/2025

everyone is free to look at the source code and fork or build and host it, and inherit all its brokenness and shit but im sure other people have built apps that provide the same features but aren't built on 2 year old libraries and the shittiest personal microframework in existance, go use those

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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 25/06/2025

blockenheimer domain expires in a month i might just let it expire and finally kill it for real

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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 25/06/2025

foot on linux, windows terminal on windows

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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 25/06/2025

the fact one can run a ~full bluesky appview, becoming entirely independant from bluesky the company, for a fraction of what the big mastodon instances pay for hosting seems notable

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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 25/06/2025

I wasn't there in WCD's time so every time I see this take come up on the piracy feed it just makes me even more deeply curious. what is it specifically that WCD had that hasn't been recovered or replicated?

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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 25/06/2025

do they really not? the successor surpassed what's torrent and artist counts a good while ago, and the other trackers are still alive censoring the URLs does absolutely nothing on here btw you're not gonna get in trouble for linking live torrents to copyrighted content, let alone a single dead site

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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 24/06/2025

it's only a bluesky appview if it comes from the Bluesky PBC, otherwise it's just sparkling xrpc

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