Vengeur Masqué

2020-12-24 11:17:00

#diaspora #spam #troll #ban #podmin

Sigh! #zlax is back again. New version of the script. I guess it is better to run it regularly until the guy gets tired.

# Load diaspora environment                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
ENV["RAILS_ENV"] ||= "production"
require_relative "config/environment"

for toxic in [ 'vm666@diaspora.ruhrmail.de', 'ivan_exlax@pod.dapor.net ', 'zlax@%', 'zlaxyizlax@%' ] do
  puts "Blocking and cleaning #{toxic}"

  local_spammers, remote_spammers = Person.where("diaspora_handle LIKE ?", toxic).where(closed_account: false).partition(&:local?)

# Retract all comments of local spammers and close their accounts                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
local_spammers.each do |spammer|
  Comment.where(author_id: spammer.id).each do |comment|
    puts "delete #{comment.guid} from post #{comment.parent.guid}"
    spammer.owner.retract(comment)
  end
  spammer.owner.close_account!
end

# Retract all spam comments on posts of local users and delete the rest                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
Comment.where(author_id: remote_spammers.map(&:id)).each do |comment|
  puts "delete #{comment.guid} from post #{comment.parent.guid}"
  post_author = comment.parent.author
  if post_author.local?
    post_author.owner.retract(comment)
  else
    comment.destroy
  end
end

# Close accounts of remote users if wanted                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
remote_spammers.each do |spammer|
  puts "close account #{spammer.diaspora_handle}"
  #AccountDeleter.new(spammer.diaspora_handle).perform!                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
  spammer.update_column(:serialized_public_key, "BLOCKED")
  puts "closed account #{spammer.diaspora_handle}"
end

end

Vengeur Masqué

2020-12-24 12:14:02

#diaspora #spam #troll #ban #podmin

#zlax is such a huge #PITA. Third version of the cleaner script. I hope it won't do innocent victims.I guess it will have to run by cron regularly until hell freezes and Zlax tires.

\#!/usr/bin/env ruby

# Load diaspora environment
ENV["RAILS_ENV"] ||= "production"
require_relative "config/environment"

toxic_accounts = Person.find_by_substring('ivan zlax')
toxic_list = toxic_accounts.map { |z| z.diaspora_handle }
toxic_list.append('vm66%@diaspora.ruhrmail.de', 'ivan_exlax@pod.dapor.net ', 'zlax@%', 'zlaxyizlax@%')
puts toxic_list.inspect
\#exit

for toxic in toxic_list do
  puts "Blocking and cleaning #{toxic}"

  local_spammers, remote_spammers = Person.where("diaspora_handle LIKE ?", toxic).where(closed_account: false).partition(&:local?)

# Retract all comments of local spammers and close their accounts
local_spammers.each do |spammer|
  Comment.where(author_id: spammer.id).each do |comment|
    puts "delete #{comment.guid} from post #{comment.parent.guid}"
    spammer.owner.retract(comment)
  end
  spammer.owner.close_account!
end

# Retract all spam comments on posts of local users and delete the rest
Comment.where(author_id: remote_spammers.map(&:id)).each do |comment|
  puts "delete #{comment.guid} from post #{comment.parent.guid}"
  post_author = comment.parent.author
  if post_author.local?
    post_author.owner.retract(comment)
  else
    comment.destroy
  end
end

# Close accounts of remote users if wanted
remote_spammers.each do |spammer|
  puts "close account #{spammer.diaspora_handle}"
  #AccountDeleter.new(spammer.diaspora_handle).perform!
  spammer.update_column(:serialized_public_key, "BLOCKED")
  puts "closed account #{spammer.diaspora_handle}"
end

end

Vengeur Masqué

2020-12-24 00:49:27

#diaspora #spam

Here is the spam removal script in #Ruby. Change the line "for toxic in ....":
(I did not write this and do not remember who did it or where I found it)

\#!/usr/bin/env ruby

# Load diaspora environment
ENV["RAILS_ENV"] ||= "production"
require_relative "config/environment"

for toxic in [ 'ivan_exlax@pod.dapor.net ', 'zlax@%', 'zlaxyizlax@%' ] do
  puts "Blocking and cleaning #{toxic}"

  local_spammers, remote_spammers = Person.where("diaspora_handle LIKE ?", toxic).where(closed_account: false).partition(&:local?)

# Retract all comments of local spammers and close their accounts
local_spammers.each do |spammer|
  Comment.where(author_id: spammer.id).each do |comment|
    puts "delete #{comment.guid} from post #{comment.parent.guid}"
    spammer.owner.retract(comment)
  end
  spammer.owner.close_account!
end

# Retract all spam comments on posts of local users and delete the rest
Comment.where(author_id: remote_spammers.map(&:id)).each do |comment|
  puts "delete #{comment.guid} from post #{comment.parent.guid}"
  post_author = comment.parent.author
  if post_author.local?
    post_author.owner.retract(comment)
  else
    comment.destroy
  end
end

# Close accounts of remote users if wanted
remote_spammers.each do |spammer|
  puts "close account #{spammer.diaspora_handle}"
  #AccountDeleter.new(spammer.diaspora_handle).perform!
  spammer.update_column(:serialized_public_key, "BLOCKED")
  puts "closed account #{spammer.diaspora_handle}"
end

end

Dennis Schubert

2020-12-14 04:42:08

If you are a #podmin running a #diaspora pod on PostgreSQL, you should look into upgrading to version 13. These are runserver response times for Geraspora, the yellow line represents the average response times, the green line represents the the 99.9 percentile. The blue marker is the point I upgraded from pg12 to pg13. There was no other change to the environment, and since we've had a weekend just now, the amount of requests per second and the server load even went up slightly.

As you'll notice, the peaks went down significantly, but even the average response time went down by a considerable amount. Parallel autovacuuming and the performance improvements around b-tree indexes and aggregate/grouping queries is clearly help stream queries a lot. Not enough to significantly change the responsiveness for users, but still noteworthy.

(Ignore that one peak in the night of 2020-12-11 to 2020-12-12, that was a unlucky coincidence with autovac running while the server was running its "aw crap an entirely new database"-backup, so that always causes some locking issues.)

Geraspora Team

2020-11-18 03:30:57

10.

(English version below.)

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Vor exakt 10 Jahren, am 18. November 2010, hat Geraspora den Betrieb aufgenommen. Geraspora war neben joindiaspora.com und diasp.org einer der ersten Pods. Wir öffneten unsere virtuellen Türen exakt 7 Tage vor dem Versand der ersten Einladungen der Kickstarter-Backer für joindiaspora.com.

Die Idee hinter Geraspora's frühem Start war es nicht, joindiaspora.com die Aufmerksamkeit zu stehlen. Die Motivation war, das Netzwerk von Anfang an so zu gestalten, wie es geplant war: dezentral, mit unterschiedlichen Servern. Nun, 10 Jahre später, betrachte ich das Projekt als Erfolg. Auch wenn es einen endlosen Stapel mit Dingen zu erledigen gibt, haben wir es alle zusammen geschafft, ein halbwegs stabiles System zum Austausch von Daten zu bauen und obendrauf noch eine zum großen Teil relativ angenehme Community zu pflegen. Danke hierfür.

Eigentlich müssten wir am 10. Geburtstag feiern. Ehrlichgesagt ist mir aber nicht danach. Die Welt wird von einem lebensgefährlichen Virus, zunehmendem Faschismus und Hass beherrscht. Soziale Medien sind schon lange nicht mehr sozial, sondern dienen immer mehr zur Polarisierung, zum Verbreiten gezielter Falschinformationen, als Plattform für persönliche Attacken und für so viel mehr Abscheuliches. Feiern ist einfach nicht drin heute.

Trotzdem möchte ich euch ein paar Dinge, die einem 10-jährigen Jubiläum etwas Gewicht verleihen, nicht vorenthalten.

• Erster öffentlicher Beitrag auf Geraspora: "Test".
• Derzeit existierende Konten: 31.257
• Von Geraspora-Nutzerinnen generierte Inhalte (aktueller Stand - bereits gelöschte Inhalte nicht berücksichtigt):
  • Beiträge: 385.016
  • Kommentare: 596.301
• Dem Server bekannte Inhalte (ebenfalls aktueller Stand, siehe oben):
  • Beiträge: 8.926.206
  • Kommentare: 4.775.787
  • Private Nachrichten: 209.424
  • Profile: 191.800
  • Pods: 3.001, davon 421 funktionstüchtig
• Verwendeter Festplattenspeicher für Fotos, Profilbilder, ...: 238 GiB
• Verfügbarkeit im Durchschnitt der letzten 4 Jahre: 99,98% - 100% unter Ausschluss von geplanten und angekündigten Wartungsarbeiten.
• Hostingkosten insgesamt (inkl. Domains, Traffic, Backups, ...): ca. € 9.230
• Kosten für rechtliche Beratungen, rechtssichere Bewertung fragwürdiger Inhalte, ...: € 4.224
• In Frust über das Verhalten einzelner Individuen ausgerissene Haare: unzählbar.

Niemand weiß, wie die Zukunft aussieht, und deshalb gibts nun auch keine motivierenden Worte zum Abschluss.

So long, and thanks for all the cats.
~ @Dennis Schubert

---

Today marks the 10th anniversary of Geraspora opening our virtual doors on November 18th, 2010. Next to joindiaspora.com and diasp.org, we were one of the first pods ever. In fact, Geraspora went public 7 days before the first invitations to joindiaspora.com were sent out to Kickstarter backers.

Our intention behind the early launch was not to steal joindiaspora.co's show. Our main motivation was to ensure that the network starts and grows as the thing it was designed to be: a decentralized network. Now, 10 years later, I honestly consider this project a success. Even though there is a neverending pile of work to be done, I'm happy that we managed to build a stable'ish platform to share content online and that we managed to build a community consisting of mostly pretty reasonable people.

Usually, you're supposed to be partying on this occasion. But I'll be honest: I'm not in the right mood for parties. A life-threatening virus is currently dominating the world, and there's fascism and hate everywhere you look. Social media lost its "social" aspects a long time ago. These days, it's mainly used to polarize people, spread deliberate misinformation, for personal attacks, and so much more awful stuff. I'm simply not feeling a party right now.

Nonetheless, I'd like to share some key facts that add some meaning to this 10th anniversary.

• The first-ever public post on Geraspora: "Test".
• Currently existing user accounts: 31,257
• Contents generated by Geraspora users: (only considering currently existing stuff; previously deleted contents are... well, deleted.)
  • Posts: 385,016
  • Comments: 596,301
• Contents known to the server: (same as above)
  • Posts: 8,926,206
  • Comments: 4,775,787
  • Private messages: 209,424
  • Profiles: 191,800
  • Pods: 3,001 - of which 421 are up and running
• Used disk storage for photos, profile pictures, ...: 238 GiB
• Average availability in the last 4 years: 99.98% - 100% if we ignore planned maintenance.
• Costs for hosting, domains, traffic, backups, ...: approx. € 9,230
• Costs for legal counseling, legal classification of dubious contents, ...: € 4,224
• Hair lost while dealing with questionable users: countless.

Nobody knows how the future will look like, so there won't be any motivating closing words here.

So long, and thanks for all the cats.
~ @Dennis Schubert

---

#geraspora #diaspora

diaspora* HQ

2020-11-02 22:15:09

Hello and a big welcome

to everyone new to diaspora*

We're so pleased that you've decided to give diaspora* a try. It's fantastic that you've joined us!

We hope that you quickly find your way here, and enjoy getting connected with people and content.

Here's a few tips for getting started:

• There are some step-by-step tutorials on our project website covering the basics of how diaspora* works, and how to get connected with people. There's a link to these in the side-bar, should you ever want to read them in future, and there's also an in-app Help section you can access through your user menu (at the right-hand end of the header bar).
• You can search for people by name or by diaspora* ID (which looks like an email address), if you know it, from the search field in the header bar. You can invite people to join you in diaspora* by sending them a link to our project website, from where they can choose their own pod to register with. Your friends don't need to be on the same pod as you in order to connect and communicate with you.
• One good way to start getting connected with people is to start following some #tags of subjects that interest you (maybe #music, #photography, #linux, or #activism ... whatever interests you) so that you will see content on those topics in your stream. You can then start following people whose posts you find interesting, by placing them into one of your aspects.
• If you have any questions, post something with the #question or #help tag, and people will try to help you. Make sure to make your post public so anyone who can help is able to see it!

diaspora* has some very simple community guidelines, which we hope everyone will feel able to follow so that all members can have the best possible experience here.

We're trying to improve diaspora* all the time, fixing bugs, honing performance and adding new features. But how fast we can do this is limited by the time developers have. To improve diaspora* faster, we need more developers! If you've just signed up and can code, or know someone who can and who might be interested in joining our team, get in touch!

❤ diaspora*

#newhere #neuhier #nouveauici #nouvelleici #nuevoaqui #nuevaaqui #nuovoqui #nuovaqui #nuovoutente #nuovautente #nieuwhier #новичок #νέοςεδώ #diaspora