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find you on fediverse

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This site, which is dedicated to an alleged free software community in China, is hosted on servers in Germany. It is being mirrored on i2p (fsfans.i2p), im guessing, without the express knowlegde or permission of the webmaster (William Goodspeed?). One of the more delightful pages is this one https://learn.fsfans.club/

(the learn.* subdomain is not being mirrored on i2p)

Anyway the last post on the site was made in nov last year (2025) and Goodspeed explains with BRILLIANT CLARITY some of the issues facing the free software community, and that they are moving to hosting a fediverse server instead. Interestingly they chose a PieFed instance and according to the post they can only federate with other #PieFed or #Lemmy instances (?). I was super curious so I went to visit their instance only to find that the certificate was only for samsung domains?!

Beyond that point of course I expect that the site is broken, and true to form, fetching pages doesnt work and errors on the page reference an akamai domain (errors.edgesuite.net). For those playing along at home akamai is the last 'A' in the techno-fascists acronym CAGeMAFiA. but to be honest anything beyond the certificate issue is not important, just a curiousity.

can anyone shed light on what happened to this instanve? I was not on fedi at the time, having my 19 month forced-by-circumstance hiatus, lol @p @r @gabriel @rms @silverpill ?? if not i invite u to ingore this post completely.

silverpill

@silverpill@mitra.social remote

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@frogzone @p @r @gabriel @rms

>and according to the post they can only federate with other PieFed or Lemmy instances (?)

It should also federate well with Mitra, which supports that flavor of ActivityPub. Moreso, you can now create such federated communities on Mitra too (they are called groups https://wizard.casa/groups/following)

find you on fediverse

@frogzone@wizard.casa remote

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@silverpill @p @r @gabriel @rms @sun @lanodan

NEW TOPIC: Including some new participants due to reasons that will be obvious to them.

## Clam AV

How important is having an antivirus on linux like clamav for messaging (xmpp/fedi/etc) servers? or is there still an assumption that gnu/linux is safewithout it?

How disturbing is it that Cloudflare, and M$ appear to be the only ways to get the virus signature databases? Even the chinese mirror is cloudflare.

How positive would it be for the digital ecosystem if fediservers were to form volunteer combines where they agree to help build and distribute virus signature db files for each other. and possibly for ppl on their instance? As im sure ppl know im active in /dev/nulling cf, micro$haft, et al

just a thought, dunno.

Replying to @frogzone@wizard.casa

pistolero

@p@fsebugoutzone.org remote

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@frogzone @silverpill @r @gabriel @rms @sun @lanodan

> How important is having an antivirus on linux like clamav for messaging (xmpp/fedi/etc) servers?

I think not so important. If you get owned it's usually user error.

> How disturbing is it that Cloudflare, and M$ appear to be the only ways to get the virus signature databases?

They're the ones that care. If you want the signature databases, you can make one. IDS signatures matter more and there are open- or open-access ones.

> How positive would it be for the digital ecosystem

You might wanna ping eriner. He's probably got the best view of the landscape.

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