Friends, if you haven't already, it would be a big favour to me if you could enable tags.pub to boost your public tagged posts.
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@mlanger @mayintoronto @giantspecks @evan @jakebrake I wonder if this "ugly hack" is, in fact, a test of a concept Evan hopes to propose to Mastodon for more elegant inclusion.

@deborahh @mlanger @mayintoronto @evan @jakebrake one can hope
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@brooke what did you end up doing?
@evan ok my decision is that i cannot accept using a follow-based bot like that on my main account with the current single level of follower trust that ActivityPub allows.
Whether I happen to trust the current operator of the bot or not, that's not a level of trust I'd generally allow.
If in the future there's a way to let a bot follow my public posts without giving it access to my followers-only posts, then I'd allow it.
Thanks for soliciting feedback.
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@evan ok my decision is that i cannot accept using a follow-based bot like that on my main account with the current single level of follower trust that ActivityPub allows.
Whether I happen to trust the current operator of the bot or not, that's not a level of trust I'd generally allow.
If in the future there's a way to let a bot follow my public posts without giving it access to my followers-only posts, then I'd allow it.
Thanks for soliciting feedback.
> @brooke@bikeshed.vibber.net said:
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> If in the future there's a way to let a bot follow my public posts without giving it access to my followers-only posts, then I'd allow it.I'd be surprised if this was the case. Followers-only posts are by definition not public. Tags.pub probably does not index and boost those. Perhaps you were thinking of unlisted posts, which are public?
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@julian you're aware that this isn't about the specific bot's implementation at the moment but about the follow mechanism in activitypub? i'm blocking you now

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@julian you're aware that this isn't about the specific bot's implementation at the moment but about the follow mechanism in activitypub? i'm blocking you now

Touchy. Banned.
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@jakebrake @evan The thing I like about this specifically is that it's an opt-in global booster. So many bots currently boost without our consent.
@mayintoronto @jakebrake @evan I'm on a self-hosted single-user server and this is fantastic.
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@mayintoronto @jakebrake @evan I'm on a self-hosted single-user server and this is fantastic.
Ping @_elena @elena@aj @mayintoronto @jakebrake @_elena @elena Oh, I'm so glad to hear that!
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@hongminhee so, the good news is that I can use the Fedify CLI to do an authorized fetch for an actor, and the debug output shows that RFC 9421 signatures worked. 🥳 The bad news is that the follow test still doesn't work. 🫤 I'll keep trying and see what I can do.
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@hongminhee so, the good news is that I can use the Fedify CLI to do an authorized fetch for an actor, and the debug output shows that RFC 9421 signatures worked. 🥳 The bad news is that the follow test still doesn't work. 🫤 I'll keep trying and see what I can do.
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