You need to look at the DNS server used by whatever client is resolving that name. If it’s going to an external recursive resolver instead of using your own internal DNS server then you could be leaking lookups to the wider internet.

Does this community need a post every time there’s a new spam account?

Is it now handing out IPs in a different subnet? Check the IP given to your client.

my ISP was hijacking my DNS queries and changing it to their own DNS server

Which ISP? Name and shame!

So if you use this and have a public follows list then someone can look at the accounts you follow and find out where you live.

Is that a smart idea?

I know, I just don’t particularly want to dedicate part of my brain to understanding what they do. I’m sure there are non-fascist examples to take inspiration from.

https://techwontsave.us/episode/232_shopifys_right_wing_inner_circle_w_luke_lebrun__rachel_gilmore

I have no idea how Shopify works. I hear they support fascism.

Problem is that a shop probably doesn’t want to show you listings from their competitors, and price aggregators don’t want to share their listings with other price aggregators because they would lose their kickback if you buy from another referrer.

What you describe already exists in a non-federated way as these modern “marketplace” platforms like Amazon, where many third-party sellers can all list the same product at different prices and the platform aggregates all of the listings into one product page. Amazon is not the only site that does this.

If you had a federated protocol to implement this kind of marketplace, then you’d be adding an extra middleman to the transaction, because you’d need to compensate both the server that hosts the vendor’s listing and the server that showed that listing to the buyer. This might make prices higher for consumers or margins thinner for sellers.

I don’t think it’s impossible in theory but it would need some good business experience to pull off successfully. You’d basically be competing with all of the incumbent giants (Amazon) right off the bat.

What does hashwash mean? I googled it but I just get instructions on how to wash my hash.

Blockchain is a decentralized distributed-consensus protocol that uses proof-of-{work/stake} to prevent a Sybil attack (>50% malicious nodes) from taking control of the consensus algorithm.

To recap, blockchain gives you:

1. decentralized
2. distributed consensus
3. with Sybil attack resistance

If you don’t need any one of those 3 attributes then you do not need blockchain.

For the Fediverse, only property 1 (decentralized) is required/desirable. 2 (distributed consensus) is not required since the architecture is Federated; that is, each server decides on it’s own set of available posts, comments and moderator actions, and chooses which of those things to show to users and to federate to other servers. Since property 2 is made redundant by federation, there is no risk of Sybil attack, so property 3 is also redundant.

If you actually wanted to have a decentralized distributed consensus algorithm to ensure that all posts/comments/etc. were replicated exactly across all servers then you could use a distributed consensus algorithm like Raft or Paxos. If you then also wanted to mitigate Sybil attacks on the network then you could simply use a whitelist of trusted peers, as each Fediverse server already uses for federation.

Only if you wanted a truly peer-to-peer decentralized distributed consensus protocol that is resistant to attack would you need to use a blockchain protocol. But, ask yourself why anyone would need such a consensus model when it would preclude localized moderation, “defederation” would result in hard forks of the ledger, and every action in the network would be publically visible for all time making post deletion (moderation) impossible.

Blockchain was invented for online currency where you actually need distributed consensus of a ledger in a Byzantine environment. It’s not really a model that is suitable for social media, messaging, publishing or any of the other applications that it has been shoe-horned into.

Get a job in pizza delivery, you’re sure to meet some interesting characters that way.

What does the name mean?

You wrote this shit with an LLM, didn’t you?