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mentioning bad instances and a bad browser extension
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i needed to make an argument against Shinigami Eyes in one talk, so i installed it in a separate browser and logged into tech dot lgbt since it annoyingly only supports mastodon

so, Amber from transfem dot social is marked as red but a TLA user who runs a pedo instance is green

so the conclusion i can make is that the extension is endorsing these people

edit: THE WHOLE FUCKING TLA IS GREEN

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this one is even more bad
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@link whwhat

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mentioning bad instances and a bad browser extension
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@link yeah, it’s ran by TIRFs and truscums. Anyone who is transmasc, enby, intersex, supports transmascs, enbies or intersex people, or just doesn’t agree with radfems is red

radfems and truscums are green

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question about the bad instance, re: this one is even more bad
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@link what is the problem with TLA? (it's another one of those instances that I have heard vaguely bad things about, but nobody says specifically what's wrong with it)
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@link@meowing.men how does that thing even work? It can't just be a giant txt of all accounts in red and all accounts in green, right?
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@mushroomdonoteat

it might actually light up all TLA users because the TLA is green in Google search

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@mushroomdonoteat @link

what the hell is TLA

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@sekomi @mushroomdonoteat

i’ll explain to you in DMs

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@link @sekomi @mushroomdonoteat can you give me the same explanation?
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these people are miserable enough to call their group after a slur, pedi; re: mentioning bad instances and a bad browser extension
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@sekomi @swirly

ok, so in short

TLA and also Xenofemme are 4tran (4chan transgenders) instances, which are known best for harassing transmascs, in one instance they harrased Kio out of the Internet

he was hosting a bunch of public services, his Fedi instances alone were having in total more than 1000 users

he is remembered very fondly in queer fedi

that event, and also the fact that at least TLA admins tolerate open pedos on their instance, warranted them a fediblock from a lot of server owners

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i do not enjoy the fact that i started a meta discourse

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BUT i think i won the argument which made me check out the extension in the first place

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so far i just made one of the critters in that talk to facilitate that this unit doesn’t want to join fedi

making the fediverse unadvertisable award x2

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@link bestie I had 4h of sleep, I can't comprehend this sentence /lh /noButActualWhatAreYouTryingToSay

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@miawinter

yeah, i am reading that again and it’s kinda incomprehensive

so, i presented my argument mentioned in the first post, and one of the participants, who refers to themselves as “this unit”, said that this type of shit is why this unit doesn’t want to join fedi

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@link @miawinter this problem isn't exclusive to fedi

I see the exact same shit on twitter, reddit, bsky, etc.

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@link tbh, my theory is theory is that their bloom filter is filling up & becoming less accurate

though it definitely has issues with brigading

https://tech.lgbt/@solonovamax/116872164080099987

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@mushroomdonoteat @link no

it uses what's called a "filter", specifically a "bloom filter"

it's a probabilistic data structure which can tell you whether some element is definitely not in a set or maybe in a set

essentially, as it gets more full it becomes less accurate

what it roughly does is it hashes the input then uses the bits in the hash to check/set bits in an array

so like let's say it's an array of 4 bits. if you have one thing that hashes in a way that sets bits 1 & 2 and another that sets bits 3 & 4, then if you try to check if something that uses bits 2 & 3 are in the filter, it will return true even though you never added it

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