#allowlist — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #allowlist, aggregated by home.social.
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Allowlisting: Exception Handling for Blocked TLDs
In this article, we discuss how to deal with blocklisting exception cases by using selective allowlisting to complement generalized blocklisting as part of an incident response.
https://interisle.substack.com/p/allowlisting-exception-handling-for
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🚨Breaking news! Let's Encrypt is *almost* ready to issue IP address certificates—just not to you. 😂 Expect 6-day certificates under an exclusive 'allowlist' that you can't access yet. But don't worry, they'll keep doing "more work" with the urgency of a sloth in a hammock. 🙄💤
https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/getting-ready-to-issue-ip-address-certificates/238777 #LetsEncrypt #IPAddressCertificates #Allowlist #SlothInAHammock #BreakingNews #HackerNews #ngated -
As it is the Fedi is (still) actively hostile to women and BIPOC. Good people leave because harassment and block evasion are too easy and moderation insufficient on most large servers or nonexistent in small ones.
Maybe a large number of better moderated servers should switch to an allowlist model and better reply controls (on who gets to reply to posts). On top of that, using shared blocklists if some of the allowed servers misbehave.
It will break the fediverse as we know it, but that's not a bad thing as it's already broken by abusers. Most large instances will likely not be on allowlists as they're geared from growth, not community safety.
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If you think about it #allowlist #federation is basically what #IRC networks do nowadays (it used to be similar to #email where everyone is connected to one another, until the inevitable permanent #eris #netsplit that led to #EFnet which provided precedent for future netsplits) :sagume_think:
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@[email protected] They probably just imported the list of all domains their main instance at
fedi.taxhas federated with. Pretty nice way to bootstrap an #allowlist instance tbh :sagume_think:
I'm kinda lucky my instance got included actually :gyate_patchouli_wow:
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Oooh somebody is actually doing an #allowlist / #optin #federation here in the #fediverse! :SuikaWOW:
Very cool @[email protected] :D :alice_wine:
#fediboost
RE: https://fediverse.one/objects/fdc30534-9465-d01f-8db6-039348811683 -
Oooh somebody is actually doing an #allowlist / #optin #federation here in the #fediverse! :SuikaWOW:
Very cool @[email protected] :D :alice_wine:
#fediboost
RE: https://fediverse.one/objects/fdc30534-9465-d01f-8db6-039348811683 -
A better vision for a near-future fedi requires an exercise of both the technical and social imagination, and another thing that Meta's collaborators appear to find elusive: a moral center.
Instead of a regression into another Zuckerberg-controlled nightmare of hate speech, harassment, "brand engagement" and dehumanizing surveillance, we can push forward into an intentional federation based on consent and community, which centers the non-negotiable requirement of safety for everyone who otherwise has the most to lose from the betrayal of this online space of refuge and resistance.
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#FreeFediverse #FediPact #DefederateMeta #Meta #Facebook #Threads #Instagram #Democracy #Community #Decentralization #Prefiguration #Fedifam #AllowList #IntentionalFederation
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A note also on the gaslighting we face from Meta's colluders; the latest being the embarrassing spectacle of ActivityPub co-author Evan wagging around a "small fedi". @thenexusofprivacy has a good rebuttal to this cringe exhibitionism here: https://privacy.thenexus.today/the-annotated-case-for-a-big-fedi/
Evan has seen fit to misappropriate the "small fedi" idea, then build a blog post around warping it into a smear, with a long list of patronizing and fictional mischaracterizations. But what is truly small is the thinking that the fedi's future is surveillance, algorithmic ingestion, centralized servers too big to moderate, and huge psychotic corporations like Meta. In fact, that is social media's catastrophic past, the one we're all here to reject.
6/7
#FreeFediverse #FediPact #DefederateMeta #Meta #Facebook #Threads #Instagram #Democracy #Community #Decentralization #Prefiguration #Fedifam #AllowList #IntentionalFederation
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An intentional federation would be a more decentralized one, as we could fully affirm a collective choice to keep instances small. That's not just an abstract idea; a more decentralized fedi would be a more democratic one: https://kolektiva.social/@ophiocephalic/110707707012210965
And it would also be a more community-centered one. Currently, the Mastodon network in particular is being driven by an approach which denies the prospect for a riotous polyculture of small and distinct communities in favor of a growth-oriented monoculture in which "servers are not... communities" ( https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/111628882009671820 ) and "it doesn't matter which one you use" ( https://www.theverge.com/23658648/mastodon-ceo-twitter-interview-elon-musk-twitter ), an outlook which Zuckerberg must find favorable.
5/7
#FreeFediverse #FediPact #DefederateMeta #Meta #Facebook #Threads #Instagram #Democracy #Community #Decentralization #Prefiguration #Fedifam #AllowList #IntentionalFederation
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We accept and support new spinups by fellow travelers were are already in community with. The servers which entirely come in from the cold are mostly those belonging to the creatures of the dark-fedi, which cause many of the moderation problems for those of us on proportionately-sized instances (and most of the other problems are caused by the disproportionately-sized ones, who will be joining the Zuckerverse).
By assuming agency for who we choose to federate with, rather than existing in a state of constant reaction against those who would try and force us to federate with them, we can defend our federation both from the fascists, racists, transphobes and pedos of the defediverse, and from the horrifying and corruptive threat of the Zuckerberg entity, and its collaborator instances.
4/7
#FreeFediverse #FediPact #DefederateMeta #Meta #Facebook #Threads #Instagram #Democracy #Community #Decentralization #Prefiguration #Fedifam #AllowList #IntentionalFederation
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Some worry that consent-based federation would lead to isolation, but this doesn't need to be true. For the end user, nothing at all would change; it would be just as easy or hard to join an instance as it is now, minus the funneling into a centralized, poorly-moderated vanilla flagship.
And what about new instance spinups? Their prospects could actually improve from the current status quo, if an allow-list fediverse was structured into instance alliances as described in the fedifam concept. New intra-fam spinups would automatically federate: https://kolektiva.social/@ophiocephalic/110793531238090472
Fedifams could then form trust-treaties with other fedifams, smoothing federation out from the fam into the broader fediverse in whatever manner of comfort or caution is preferred (such as limited or probationary federation): https://kolektiva.social/@ophiocephalic/110985194948458666
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#FreeFediverse #FediPact #DefederateMeta #Meta #Facebook #Threads #Instagram #Democracy #Community #Decentralization #Prefiguration #Fedifam #AllowList #IntentionalFederation
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While Authorized Fetch remains important to activate, it is clear that even it - which remember, provides better defense than that currently implemented on most of our home servers - is inadequate to the threats facing us as the Zuckerberg incursion progresses. If we're serious about protecting our communities and expressions from absorption into surveillance capitalism and the accelerating miseries of fascism, we need to talk about a stronger grade of defensive weaponry.
To this end, @are0h has fired a first volley: https://h-i.social/@are0h/111653850819592308 Every fedi community which serves as a refuge for those targeted and under siege should be thinking like this. True safety only awaits us in a transitive approach to defederation, and further on, in an intentional federation based on the allow-list.
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#FreeFediverse #FediPact #DefederateMeta #Meta #Facebook #Threads #Instagram #Democracy #Community #Decentralization #Prefiguration #Fedifam #AuthorizedFetch #AllowList #IntentionalFederation
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The Intentional Federation
We have recently been advocating the activation of a function which is present but usually off in Mastodon and other fedi services called Authorized Fetch. As we plead with the major development projects to take safety more seriously and make it a default, we have learned that Meta itself didn't think twice about it and has activated it in their own ActivityPub implementation against *us*.
We know this because of news that a fascist has devised a way to evade it and force federation with Threads. They promise to then turn their technique upon us and coerce unblockable federation with fascist and cryptospam instances: https://soapbox.pub/blog/threads-server-blocking/
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#FreeFediverse #FediPact #DefederateMeta #Meta #Facebook #Threads #Instagram #Democracy #Community #Decentralization #Prefiguration #Fedifam #AuthorizedFetch #AllowList
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Just merged #allowlist federation mode into main! There's no UI for it yet, but the client API + internal code is all there to make it work :)
https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/pull/2200
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PC Matic Home blocks the execution of any program not on its allowlist, but you'll have to put up with it blocking valid programs too.
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CyberLock takes an allowlist approach to antivirus protection without getting in your way. A machine-learning component improves the app's malware detection, but you still need a standalone antivirus.
https://phoenix-preview.pcmag.com/reviews/voodoosoft-voodooshield
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#meta #whatsapp is having issues with spam. I get tons of unsolicited nudges trying clever tricks to fool #ai based #antispam filtering.
If they don't implement #allowlist style blanket blocking option, I'll have to ditch it.
This is very annoying. As far as i passionately hate #meta, #whatsapp is more popular than #SMS text messaging and kinda mandatory to have.
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#Email #deliverability once again. One organization just informed me that, they'll be only accepting email ( #SMTP connections) from their self managed #IPv4 #allowlist. - Please let us know, which servers are sending mail to us and why. -
@david_megginson Yes, I'm working on it, too.
Got called out at work by a colleague for whitelist instead of #AllowList
I'm better than I was, and not where I want to be.
#Antiracism #WhiteManExisting in #SystemicRacism -
Of course #aws features are going to be coming fast and furious in the run up to #ReInvent but another neat #CloudSecurity feature for #CloudFront is
hashing of the TLS Client Hello packet to create the JA3 #fingerprint.Allows you to create a #BlockList (or #AllowList if you're lucky enough) of #BadActors in your #WAF (or just to log for anomalies)