A post from 2 months ago which explained the context: https://lemmy.world/post/20694710
I just had a look, nothing has changed, the website is still using Lemmy’s content to pretend to be active
Last time they said their developer left. I doubt they found a new one in the meantime so I suspect this site will die soon
I was expecting that too, I was surprised to see it was still online
Websites don’t go offline that fast, especially if there’s sunk costs involved.
@db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com interested in cutting this site off perhaps?
i generally only block for spam or technical/legal reasons.
blocked for technical reason: scraper.
@jerry@fedia.io This seems like a reasonable instance for Fedia to block.
Thanks
Calling in @jwr1@kbin.earth re possible domain block.
Just saw this and while I can’t check at the moment the instances admins I’ve pinged might want to consider defederating from Clubsall
@snowe@programming.dev @Ategon@programming.dev @mp3@lemmy.ca @ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Defederated. If they start federating outwards, I’ll lift it
Well done!
I’m unfamiliar with Clubsall. Is it pulling them via federation or fetching via API? Would defederating work? I appear to have already defederated, likely in response to your earlier post, but not sure if that does anything. And that only stops them from pulling content from my instance, not what I posted to any other.
ActivityPub I would say, they show up on https://lemmy.world/instances for instance
api.clubsall.com
clubsall-api.renchesterjramos.workers.dev
clubsall-api.appcafe.workers.dev
clubsall-api3.renchesterjramos.workers.dev
clubsall-api2.appcafe.workers.dev
clubsall-api2.renchesterjramos.workers.dev
clubsall-api4.renchesterjramos.workers.devThanks. I just had the main domain blocked, but I think I needed all of the subdomains as well. From the looks of those worker domains, it may be a cat-mouse game trying to keep them blocked.
Thanks for this, we should get a wiki going somewhere for admins
So im a bit confused, if they are federated whats the issue? Is it just a one way street or something?
It’s a one way federation: they only fetch Lemmy’s comment, but don’t allow other instances to get their content.
There are more details in the post linked in the OP
this isn’t entirely true, they do have some comments on lemmy as well, here are some examples:
- https://programming.dev/u/vinaya@api.clubsall.com
- https://programming.dev/u/chester22@api.clubsall.com
- https://programming.dev/u/impresario@api.clubsall.com
- https://programming.dev/u/luckymann@api.clubsall.com
- https://sh.itjust.works/u/BlazeFromLemmy@api.clubsall.com
it seems to be primarily about their communities not federating though i guess?
and either nobody from there posted a post to a lemmy community yet or maybe it doesn’t federate posts currently?
I was talking about the communities indeed.
From the project creator
Sorry you feel that way. Keep in mind that we built everything from scratch. Federation is not currently implemented, and we’ll need time.
ugh, i didn’t notice they’re even hiding domains of remote communities for “simplicity” in most cases. that seems so much more dishonest tbh.
Yes, the whole thing is fishy
