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We aren't able to detect this kind of activity automatically, and we don't have the context or experience needed to identify it that people like you do, so we depend on you all: fed.brid.gy/docs#moderat... . And it is working, I'm seeing these accounts start to get taken down. Thank you again!

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Ryan @snarfed.org · 5d

Hey, yes! We've been talking to a few people about it, eg IFTAS.

Sounds like you and others have been finding and reporting the accounts. Thank you! That's the most important part. We bridge those reports across to the accounts' original network and instances, in both directions.

Coordinated Pro-Russian Propaganda Network Targeting ActivityPub and ATProto Services

Since 15 September, IFTAS has been tracking a coordinated network of accounts operating across Mastodon. These accounts are engaged in a high-volume propaganda campaign, promoting pro-Russian narra…

about.iftas.org

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Ryan @snarfed.org · 5d

I wish we could make these dashboards public! Google Cloud Monitoring doesn't support that right now; hopefully they will eventually. issuetracker.google.com/issues/35410...

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Ryan @snarfed.org · 5d

A glimpse into the Bridgy Fed monitoring dashboards. Pretty conventional mix of infra, OS, and app level metrics.

Note the delay numbers. When you do something in one network, how quickly do we bridge it across? We pay a lot of attention to that, we try hard to keep it as fast as possible!

monitoring dashboard with graphs for user count, receive/send/ATProto serve/ATProto consume delays, tasks run, and processing delays

monitoring dashboard with graphs for task results, task queues, CPU, and memory

monitoring dashboard with graphs for receive protocols, types, source instances, and ATProto firehose commits

monitoring dashboard with graphs for unsupported activities and sent activities by protocol and type

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Ryan @snarfed.org · 6d

Tiling! Always tiling

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Ryan @snarfed.org · Jan 13

Nothing has made me feel more like a graybeard recently than seeing people use "the internet" to mean social networking, or what people are saying to each other online, instead of the series of tubes and hardware and software that carry data packets from one networked device to another.

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Ryan @snarfed.org · 9d

Yes! This thing is awesome, I'm a huge fan of it, and of his work in general.

Also, the predecessor project observatory.cyber.harvard.edu already has a corollary in ufos.microcosm.blue 🤩

Fediverse Schema Observatory

observatory.cyber.harvard.edu

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Ryan @snarfed.org · 11d

Also, ideas are worth much less than people think. Execution and iteration make them valuable. Don't keep them secret; tell as many people as you can, get feedback, it's critical to bringing them to fruition.

Ryan @snarfed.org · 14d

wowww. end of an era. they (and we!) have been lucky to have you for as long as we did. loved working with you. best of luck!

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Ryan @snarfed.org · 15d

yes! brid.gy/about#micropub

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