I'm not sure you're looking for my feedback but yes, I do want to limit my interaction with toots while seeing a wider variety of toots. I eventually found a relay to subscribe to specific tags for local and country-level politics.
Since then I've set up filters and have started to curate a followers list from that.
The single, small and community instances are valid. Consent in communication is important to me while surveying public toots.
@thisismissem Within days of setting up a new instance and interacting with people on other instances using ActivityPub, I saw a data scrape of my public toots and CDN assets occur.
I think it's reasonable that an organization that profits from user data will survey this social network graph of people existing outside their walled gardens.
@thisismissem Good to know, regarding no increase in Sidekiq activity. I guess I still have a lot to learn. 😅
What I recall from that moment was that everything stood out like a spike in the CloudFront dashboards. Within a short time window it looked like every asset was touched. I remember it being hard to determine who the client was, but that it looked like one client.
@thisismissem Within the first week of operating an instance, I suddenly saw a walk of all of the CDN assets, including cached media from other instances. At first I assumed it was some kind of index, but I was able to corroborate this action by reviewing nginx logs. I did not see an uptick in Sidekiq.
As a new admin, I wasn't sure how to gather more information to understand what would cause a 1:1 serving of GB of media from my CDN I had just set up.
@thisismissem I wonder about this. Relays are hard for me to understand in the concept of ActivityPub. I still have basic questions about them, like, if I subscribe to a relay am I sending them all of my public toots? Am I just receiving?
Without thinking about relays, I expect public toots to be discoverable.
The only consent I can control are toots coming from my instance. Which is why I'm not allowing other users without first having some kind of service agreement in place.
Wifey and I walk into a doctors office. When I sat down first (she’s parking), I get only mild looks from the older folks here… I make a joke about not knowing what to do and have a seat.
When wifey arrives and sits down?! Stares. All of them. Silence.
I guess this is their first experience seeing lesbians in the wild?!
David Attenborough voice
“And here we see a lesbian, see the plaid, a proud display of social dominance…..” 😂😂