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They would have to hack the individual servers to get at the DMs, because they’re encrypted in transit. All the public stuff is trivial to scrape.
Nope, ActivityPub DMs are not encrypted between servers - if it’s on the feed, it’s public- or at least it was as of six months ago. I found this out when I attached a Wordpress site to a Mastodon instance and suddenly found i could read anyone’s DMs to users on other servers. Totally unencrypted. I actually paused development and working with ActivityPub because of it.
This doesn’t mean that messages to users on the same server are necessarily exposed, but the potential is there if you don’t have a filter for local publishing only engaged on your Mastodon instance.
Thanks for the list. Unfortunately, they list “Fediverse” which likely means they’re scraping ActivityPub. They’re also going after your Steam account, Twitch, YouTube, and porn.
In other words, this is so much worse than the headline makes it out to be.
Surprisingly, Reddit is NOT on the list.
Here’s the full list of names:
4chan Archives
Discord Archives
21Buttons
500px
AllMyLinks
AllTrails
Amazon
Ameba
Amino
AnimePlanet
Apple Music
Artists&Clients
Asciinema
AudioJungle
AudiUSA
BabyCenter
Baidu
BeReal
Bigo Live
Bing
Biolink
BitChute
BlackPlanet
Blogger
Bluesky
Bodybuilding
BookCrossing
Breaches
BuyMeACoffee
Cash App
CastingCall Club
Chaturbate
Cigar Dojo
CityXGuide
CloutHub
Cocolog
Companies House
Cracked
Creema
Dailymotion
Danbooru
Dark Web
DeepL
DeviantArt
Disqus
DLive
Dot.cards
Douyin
Drum
DuckDuckGo
Duolingo
E621
eBay
Eporner
Etsy
Facebook
Fansly
FastPeopleSearch
Fediverse (likely ActivityPub - possibly DMs between servers)
FetLife
Fiverr
Flickr
FlightAware
Foursquare
FriendFinder
FurAffinity
Gab
Gaia Online
GameFAQs
Gelbooru
GeneralMotors
Geocaching
GeoEstimation
Gettr
Giphy
GitHub
Glassdoor
GoFundMe
Goo
Google
Goodreads
Gravatar
Guancha
GunBroker
Habbo
Hackaday
Hatena
Honda
Hubski
ILoveGrowingMarijuana
ImageShack
Imgur
IMVU
Indeed
Instagram
Instructables
JudyRecords
Jugem
JustForFans
Keybase
Kick
Kik
LibraryThing
Lichess
Likee
Line
LinkedIn
Linktree
LiveIn
LiveJournal
Lobsters
Malgari
MapMyTracks
Marshmallow
MarTech
Massage Anywhere
Medium
MeetMe
Mercari Jp
MeWe
Minds
Minecraft
Mix
Mixlr
ModDB
Mughosts
MyFitnessPal
Myspace
MySubaru
Naijapals
Nextdoor
NissanUSA
Odysee
OFAC Sanctions List
OkCupid
OnlyFans
Pandia
Pandora
Passes
Pastebin
Patreon
PayPal
PCGamer
Peloton
PGP
Pinterest
Plurk
Poal
Popl
Pornhub
Poshmark
Product Hunt
ProtonMail
PSNProfiles
Reblogme
Reddit
RedGifs
Replit
ReverbNation
Roblox
Rumble
Rutube
ScoutWiki
Seesaa
Seneporno
Signal
SkipTheGames
Skype
SlideShare
Snapchat
Sogou
SoundCloud
SourceForge
Spiceworks
Spotify
Sprashivai
Steam (fuck off you fucking fucks)
StellantisEU
StellantisUSA
Strava
Stripchat
Substack
TechNet
Telegram
Tellows
Tesseract OCR
Threads
TikTok
Tinder
TinEye
ToyotaUSA
Trakt
Triller
TripAdvisor
TrueCaller
TruthSocial
Tumblr
Twilio
Twitch
Twitter
Untappd
Venmo
VidLii
Vimeo
Vine
VirusTotal
VK
Volkswagen
VSCO
WatchMeMore
Weibo
WhatsApp
Wire
Wordfeud
Xbox
xHamster
XING
XVideos
Yahoo
Yandex
Yappy
YCombinator
Yelp
YouTube
Zhihu
Zillow
ZoneH
Counterpoint = same as it ever was
WoW spelled backwards is WoW.
So is Bob.
Here you go - from the article (not allow to post full detail in summary due to community rules):
First, Department of Justice lawyers requested a two-month extension on Monday in a lawsuit seeking to reimpose outdated restrictions on the abortion pill mifepristone — changes that would limit access nationwide by ending telemedicine prescriptions. There should be no need for an extension. It’s a case that the Biden DOJ asked a federal judge to dismiss in January after the Supreme Court decided last term that the original plaintiffs weren’t injured by the Food and Drug Administration’s actions on mifepristone and didn’t have legal standing to sue.
But a group of three state attorneys general tried to keep the case alive by joining the lawsuit in the Texas courtroom, a state to which they have no connection. (The AGs are also arguing that the drugs can’t be mailed due to the Comstock Act, an anti-vice law from 1873.) Notorious anti-abortion judge Matthew Kacsmaryk said in January that the case could continue, and last week he granted the extension request, meaning the government’s brief is now due by May 5.
The fact that Trump administration lawyers said they need time to “familiarize themselves” with the case is alarming in and of itself. The three states do not have standing to sue and, as a procedural matter, it should have been dead once the Supreme Court said the original plaintiffs couldn’t move forward. While this lawsuit should be tossed in a shredder, it could be a vehicle for the administration to try to roll back access to mifepristone via the courts should the FDA decline to take action itself. Project 2025 calls on the FDA to revoke its approval of mifepristone and, short of that, revert to 2016 regulations requiring in-person dispensing and limiting use to the first seven weeks of pregnancy, not 10. The lawsuit is asking courts to do basically the same thing.
Next, the administration asked on Tuesday to participate in Supreme Court arguments alongside South Carolina in a case about whether states can exclude Planned Parenthood from their Medicaid programs, even for non-abortion services. South Carolina seeks to disqualify any abortion provider from Medicaid because it claims that “payment of taxpayer funds to abortion clinics, for any purpose, results in the subsidy of abortion.” Arguments are on April 2. If the Supreme Court sides with the state, it would mean people with Medicaid can’t use their insurance at Planned Parenthood or other abortion providers, which would decimate people’s access to affordable birth control, cancer screenings, STI testing and more.
The moves are all steps toward achieving the Project 2025 goals of banning abortion and restricting access to birth control nationwide.
The Trump administration asking to join the oral argument is an ominous sign that it will allow even more Republican-controlled states to copy the move, which abortion opponents refer to as “defunding” Planned Parenthood. It’s a longtime goal of the conservative movement and it’s also an action item in Project 2025. The playbook not only calls for the Department of Health and Human Services to encourage states to exclude abortion providers from Medicaid, but it also urges HHS to go even further and propose a federal rule that would disqualify abortion providers from Medicaid nationwide. If the administration took that maximalist step, it would be yet another data point that “leaving abortion to the states” was a campaign trail lie.
Finally, the administration dismissed a lawsuit on Wednesday that Biden’s DOJ had filed against Idaho because its abortion ban violates a federal law regarding care in emergency rooms. The Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) requires any hospital that receives federal funds, which is most of them, to provide stabilizing care to patients. For pregnant women facing complications like their water breaking too early, that care can include abortion. But Idaho’s abortion ban prohibits terminating a pregnancy unless someone’s life is at risk — threats to their health aren’t enough.
During the three months that Idaho could fully enforce its law, hospitals airlifted six pregnant patients out of state because of the possibility that they’d need abortions prohibited under state law. (An Idaho hospital system anticipated that the Trump administration would change course so it sued the state in a separate case and a judge temporarily blocked the state from enforcing the law as litigation continues.)
Project 2025 calls for HHS to rescind the Biden administration’s 2022 guidance that EMTALA protects people’s ability to have emergency abortions, even in states where the procedure is banned. It also urges HHS to drop any EMTALA enforcement lawsuits and end any investigations into hospitals allegedly refusing to perform abortions in emergency situations. The Trump administration is following the Project 2025 playbook: Dropping the lawsuit is a precursor to rewriting federal guidance, which would chill care nationwide. These three actions on abortion and reproductive freedom aren’t exactly quiet to lawyers, advocacy groups and reporters, but you’d be hard pressed to find a non-news-obsessed voter who knows about them. The moves are all steps toward achieving the Project 2025 goals of banning abortion and restricting access to birth control nationwide and, sadly, there’s much more to come on this front. It was all written down before the election
Is it a boycott if I was never going to buy that piece of crap in the first place?
The very first Pratchett I read was The Light Fantastic:
I still consider it his best work, and one of my favorite books of all time, so ima gunna go off.
First, the book’s title comes from the poem L’Allegro, written by John Milton in 1631:
Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee
Jest and youthful Jollity
Quips and Cranks, and wanton Wiles
Nods, and Becks, and wreathed Smiles
Such as hang on Hebe’s neck
And love to live in dimple sleek
Sport that wrinkled Care derides
And Laughter holding both his sides
Come and trip it as ye go
On the Light Fantastic toe.
Some of my favorite quotes from it in tribute:
The universe, they say, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty, and bloody-mindedness.
The Unseen University had never admitted women, muttering something about problems with the plumbing, but the real reason was an unspoken dread that if women were allowed to mess around with magic they would probably be embarrassingly good at it…
Greyhald Spold knows that Death is looking for him, and has spent many years designing an impregnable hiding place.
He has just set the complicated clockwork of the lock and shut the lid, lying back in the knowledge that here at last is the perfect defence against the most ultimate of all his enemies, although as yet he has not considered the important part that airholes must play in an enterprise of this kind.
And right beside him, very lose to his ear, a voice has just said:
"DARK IN HERE, ISN’T IT?”
“Well—how can I put it? When I wash a young man, carving my name in the world, well, then I liked my women red-haired and fiery.”
“Ah.”
“And then I grew a little older and for preference I looked for a woman with blonde hair and the glint of the world in her eye.”
“Oh? Yes?”
“But then I grew a little older again and I came to see the point of dark women of a sultry nature.”
He paused. Rincewind waited.
“And?” he said. “Then what? What is it that you look for in a woman now?”
Cohen turned one rheumy blue eye on him.
“Patience,” he said.
The short conversation that follows eventually led to a tree religion. Its tenet of faith was this: a tree that was a good tree and led a clean decent and upstanding life could be assured of a future life after death. If it was very good indeed it would eventually be reincarnated as five thousand rolls of lavatory paper.
When light encounters a strong magical field it loses all sense of urgency. It slows right down. And on the Discworld the magic was embarrassingly strong, which meant that the soft yellow light of dawn flowed over the sleeping landscape like the caress of a gentle lover or, as some would have it, like golden syrup.
Not for the first time she reflected that there were many drawbacks to being a swordswoman, not least of which was that men didn’t take you seriously until you’d actually killed them, by which time it didn’t really matter anyway.
“Inside every sane person there’s a madman struggling to get out," said the shopkeeper. "That’s what I’ve always thought. No one goes mad quicker than a totally sane person.”
Oh, you think you’re clever, do you?
THAT’S IT. BRING OUT… THE COMFY CHAIR!
I was expecting the Spanish Inquisition, but I’ll allow it.
Musk right now…
Okay Walz, that’s a start, but we’ve yet to see you go hard. Step it up or get out of Al Green’s way and let him cane the fuck outta these Nazi shitheads.
I agree with you. After reading @suburban_hillbilly@lemmy.ml’s comment, I went back and listened to the whole thing again, and yes, it could have meant the 2020 election if you’re speaking dementia and are trying to make excuses for Meemaw, but seconds before he clearly refers to why he is here as president NOW.
Secondly, this is the President of the fucking United States literally saying “They rigged the election and I became President.” The plain English interpretation is simply too stark to try and pretend its something that it isn’t.
He didn’t retract the statement. He didn’t clarify. And given with what we’ve seen happening directly in front of our faces, I think it’s absolutely clear that he’s admitting the election was rigged in his favor.
Despite all my rage I still cannot act my age.
Elon right now…
Anyone else reminded of this?
Evil always eats its own.
Thanks - fixed!
It apparently scrapes everything on the public feed. So when I subscribed to users on Mastodon server A from Wordpress, DMs from Mastodon server A going to Mastodon server B became visible.
I had a separate account on Mastodon server A to confirm that I couldn’t see these DMs as Mastodon user on server A, and that the Wordpress scrape was grabbing messages normally not meant for public view.
This was using the ActivityPub plugin for Wordpress about six months ago.
EDIT: I should be clear that I was as surprised as the other commentators that the DMs weren’t encrypted and that I could see them at all through a 3rd party software. I did NOT see DMs between local users - only cross-instance.