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They Have No Idea How Fun The Water Park Is! (lemmy.ca)
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[–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I doubt they're crawling stuff over AP, you usually need a HTTP signature for that, and no bot is going to bother with those.

Most crawling would just be spamming the web interface.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I do not, ActivityPub uses HTTP signatures to make sure messages and requests from other servers are legit,

    Essentially, it adds a "signature" header which contains a link to a users public key, a list of headers in the message and a signed hash of all the headers and the request.

    There's a better explaination here: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/spec/security/

    A delicated bot to scrape ActivityPub posts is possible, but generic bots shouldn't work. If a delicated bot is made, people can block its keys or server anyway.

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