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Emelia 👸🏻

@thisismissem@hachyderm.io

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Corruptress of Protocols, Tech Princess 👸🏻

Working on Trust & Safety, open-source software, and open social web as an Independent Contractor

You've probably used tech I've contributed to.

I'm chronically ill, likely with MCAS.

🚀 Founder of https://unobvious.technology
💪🏻 Pro-Unions 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Trans & Queer

Mostly using Bluesky at the moment: @thisismissem.social

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Joined November 06, 2022

Support My Work:

https://support.thisismissem.social/

Website:

https://www.brandedcode.com

GitHub:

https://github.com/thisismissem

Pronouns & Location:

She/her — Berlin, Germany

Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem@hachyderm.io

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@benpate@mastodon.social i can think of worse companies to host with tbh. Funnily enough these same people probably don't get that a significant portion of the fediverse is actually behind cloudflare's CDNs. I think these "do as I say" holier than thou types are the bane of the decentralised web. Like, if I wanted to drive people away from open social projects, that's exactly how I'd do it: hire a small group of people to consistently be assholes to other's. It's like 101 from the CIA field guide to sabotage 🚩

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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Boosted by @tchambers@indieweb.social

Contrary to seemingly popular belief, FediMod FIRES and the protocol I created for it is so much more than just "blocklist synchronisation" It's designed to give moderation teams choice in what they pull from providers and how that's applied to their server. It's designed to give finer-grained moderation control than "silence or suspend" across a wide array of entities. Thinking of FediMod FIRES as just a blocklist synchronisation tool is like thinking of a computer as a just a modern typewriter. Sure you can just do what that original thing did, but it's capable of so much more. For example, it's possible to share moderation data on individual bad actors and also on email domains (currently not in the shipped version but pretty straightforward to add). In the future it'll also support more entity types like Hashtags, Links, and possibly image hashes. Domain blocks are just the tip of the iceberg of what FediMod FIRES can do.

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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

RE: @fediversereport@mastodon.social

A massive thanks to @laurenshof@indieweb.social for actually attributing FediMod FIRES to me in his coverage. It means a lot to receive credit for my work!

mastodon.social

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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Internationalisation of "handles" on the fediverse, fresh from #fediforum

https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-swicg/2026May/0001.html

@technical-discussion @hongminhee@hollo.social

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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

RE: @thisismissem@hachyderm.io

Product launched! 🚀

Recently worked with Eurosky to launch Eurosky Portal: an easy way to create a Eurosky.social account and begin exploring the Atmosphere.

https://eurosky.tech/blog/eurosky-portal-beta/

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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@ocean @Viss alternatively: bankrupt godaddy by tricking them into registering millions of useless domains

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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem@hachyderm.io

· 4mo ago

Hey friends, so my friend's a musician called girli, and she's been producing music for 10 years, and she's now 250 sales away from a top-40 album position in the UK charts.

You help her by ordering via her website: https://girlimusic.com/

Or the digital download: https://girlimusic.com/products/its-just-my-opinion-wav

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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem@hachyderm.io

· 6mo ago

Say what you want about the Bluesky/Attie/Graze situation, but let's be real: Graze wouldn't even be allowed to exist on the fediverse, especially when the dominant player (Mastodon) has 10x or 100x the funding of everyone else and whilst they could implement custom feeds they've been deciding not to.

If memory serves, @newsmast@backend.newsmast.org received push back on attempting to bring custom feeds to the fediverse back in 2024.

Some servers opted to run forks to get them, and a whole heap of people use phanpy because of it's amazing custom catch-up feed.

You can pretend the power dynamics on the fediverse are different, but they're really not: you have one dominant player that gets to decide everyone else's features.

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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@mcc fwiw, blacksky have had a relay for ages, they were one of the first to set one up, so I'm not sure what lead to this situation: https://atproto.africa/ Full list of services: https://docs.blacksky.community/list-of-our-services

atproto.africa

Blacksky Algorithms

atproto.africa

An atproto relay instance running the rsky-relay codebase. Operated by Blacksky Algorithms.

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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem@hachyderm.io

· 3mo ago

Boosted by @fedicat@pc.cafe

We're now actively seeing attrition on people contributing to the ActivityPub Trust & Safety taskforce because we've failed to secure funding to pay people to do the required work, which is to the detriment of the entire fediverse. It is not pretty or headline catching work, but it is necessary work that underpins the very social fabric of the fediverse. It's now been 205 days since I submitted an application with @nlnet@social.nlnet.nl to try to secure funding for this work. That's almost 7 months. The only update I've received to date was on 9th March 2026 that simply stated "your project "ActivityPub Trust & Safety Taskforce" (2025-12-371) has been selected to enter the second round of the December 2025 call" The email did include "Note that proposals are reviewed with regards to urgency, relevance and value for money.", so my only logical conclusion is that NLNet does not see trust & safety work as urgently needed, relevant or value for money 🤷🏻‍♀️ Maybe there's another funding organisation that wants to fund the taskforce? So far I haven't seen an appropriate fund.

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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem@hachyderm.io

· 3mo ago

Replying to

@aleksei@social.fakeplastictrees.ee @_elena@mastodon.social because that's just marketing it seems. From what I've been told their API (app view) just proxies bluesky's API, so when bluesky's infrastructure had a rate limit trip (one that's designed to protect against spam & network abuse), that data stopped flowing to the rest of Bluesky's infrastructure (and anyone else who depended on their infrastructure). Usually this isn't a problem, and dropping a message to various network operators gets the problem fixed in no time at all.

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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Replying to

psa, hrt

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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@FinchHaven @mcc @esm @americanbuddhist.net It really doesn't matter what jack wants or wanted since he's no longer involved at all. He rage quit the app & board ages ago, and almost certainly didn't contribute to AT Protocol's architecture.

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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@esm @mcc I'm sure there'll be a full write up soon. They usually do pretty good postmortems

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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@mcc oh! Interesting, I'd just assumed they were already using it.

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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem@hachyderm.io

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@benpate@mastodon.social @johannab@cosocial.ca @scottjenson@social.coop small asterisk here: this doesn't mean ID verification on social media but rather attunement and adaptation to contexts and sneakernets

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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@esm @mcc yeah, that'd be my guess. It'll be interesting to see if anyone takes responsibility for the attack, if it is an attack as suspected Tangentially, Russia tried to block bluesky the other day: https://netcrook.com/russia-blocks-bluesky-social-media-crackdown/

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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@catrinity Hm, mein Endokrinologe hat mir neulich gesagt, dass Vorsorgeuntersuchungen in Deutschland keine Rolle spielen 😣 Gut zu wissen, dass es sie doch gibt

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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem@hachyderm.io

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@matthiasott this was oddly off already for me

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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@Wikisteff @esm @mcc I'm not saying the two things are linked but the timing is an odd coincidence.

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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem@hachyderm.io

· 6mo ago

Replying to

Here's a public FIRES server: https://fires.1sland.social Integrated with Pelago: https://archipelago.1sland.social/fires #moderation #fediblock #administration

fires.1sland.social

FIRES - Home

FIRES: Fediverse Intelligence Replication Endpoint Server

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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@stephaniewalter i think another aspect is the sheer volume of information an AI can output during prompting that can become overwhelming, because asking a single question can result in two screen heights worth of text.

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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@nileane my understanding is that it may be because they're actively being attacked, and such attacks would takedown any service

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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@ivan glad you liked it! I wrote this for a grant application originally, and then published it separately because I think we really need more people thinking about this.

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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@countablenewt interestingly, the endpoint to subscribe to a relay and to subscribe to a PDS are actually the exact same so I've been playing around with that.

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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@nileane there's been some vague posts about this, but you generally don't talk about impacts of active attacks as they happen since you don't want to let the attackers know what is an isn't working. So yeah, it's understandable if a service goes offline when there's people actively trying to knock it offline. Fedi has only infrequently faced this

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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@countablenewt @nileane blacksky has had a relay for ages, but they were apparently not using it for some things. Eurosky is super new, so the only public things we have are the PDS, Portal and Mover; full disclosure: they're one of my clients. We're definitely spinning up more things as and when we can

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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@countablenewt @nileane relays aren't expensive anymore. We moved away from archival relays which was where the cost was; now they're pretty much a websocket multiplexer

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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@bigiain @mhoye There's so much prior art here it's not funny, my project FediMod FIRES just figures out what that looks like for the fediverse

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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem@hachyderm.io

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@bodil I'm mostly looking at claude to solve the overtly time consuming tasks like fleshing out test suites whilst checking against a specification document; or assembling together UI code I can iterate on (because I'm much more backend focused and frontend just is very time consuming for me to iterate on)

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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem@hachyderm.io

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@tootadmin@pizza.enby.city yes-ish. The FediMod FIRES container image is the reference server for being a data producer; consumers need platforms to integrate or other tools to manage their integration (like what FediCheck did internally)

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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem@hachyderm.io

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@trampinheavy@mastodon.social that is a "risk" with all moderation data. Only use data providers you trust. If you don't have strong trust for their judgement, then you should be able to review manually, rather than apply automatically. So yes, people can be blocked across multiple instances, entire instances can be blocked. That's nothing new, between existing CSV blocklists and the fediblock hashtag. What this does differently is that it has both positive and negative signals: Accept this content, Filter this content, Reject/Drop this content. It also encourages data providers to use labelling to add metadata to their blocks, so you can say "I trust IFTAS on CSAM but I don't want their recommendations on other topics. And, most importantly: It supports retractions as a native part of the protocol: If someone or an instance is blocked, then they can become unblocked later; this is a lot harder to do with CSV files.

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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem@hachyderm.io

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@jay@social.zerojay.com refetch the post, I made an update, I guess you didn't get it. Changed it to working links

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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem@hachyderm.io

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@mo@mastodon.ml that was why it was originally meant to be headless, and the feedback I received was that people had no idea how to use it if headless, so I had to make a choice UI or API as I didn't have funding for both — UI won last time.

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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem@hachyderm.io

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@johannab@cosocial.ca do you know about the work of @erlend@writing.exchange and Muni-town? That might interest you @benpate@mastodon.social @scottjenson@social.coop

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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem@hachyderm.io

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@veit @rachel yeah, apparently boosts your profile when you apply to jobs as well as fraud is rife in hiring ATM

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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem@hachyderm.io

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@mo@mastodon.ml FediMod FIRES as a reference server is also still pretty oriented towards early adopters, not mainstream market

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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@mcc @esm I think we'll need to wait for the analysis and blog posts that follow.

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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem@hachyderm.io

· 3mo ago

Replying to

@andypiper@macaw.social @_elena@mastodon.social my take on it is that the politicians want to control the means by which people can be social, because that provides them with immense power: https://bsky.app/profile/thisismissem.social/post/3moilbymuyc2y

Emelia (@thisismissem.social)

Most people getting into social do not do it for the benefit of society, but rather to control & own the social fabric that supports society. If you control the social platform, you can control the conversation. You then have enormous political power.

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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@liaizon this might interest you

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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem@hachyderm.io

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@Overgoddess@bardicperspiration.club depends on if you'd be a data producer or a data consumer (or both of course)

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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@Profpatsch@mastodon.xyz @thisismissem@activitypub.space I'd still recommend using pushed authorization request too, since they greatly simplify the redirect down to just client_id & request_uri parameters.

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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@nileane @Setok yeah, so like, I've also seen attacks against fediverse instances, and there's a lot we don't know about the fediverse's resiliency to attacks yet. Many servers use relay services like fedibuzz, what would happen if those were attacked?

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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem@hachyderm.io

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@rimu@mastodon.nzoss.nz happy to jump on a call to discuss more

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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@Setok @nileane we have had coordinated attacks spanning hundreds of servers, maybe thousands. There's a lot you maybe haven't seen. The federated nature of the fediverse does not make it magically resilient against attacks from a motivated attacker Relays are extremely important for small instances, and it's just an example of how there's infrastructure and things that could be attacked in new ways that we may not even know yet how such could cascade. Heck, just posting a popular post or posting a link to a server can knock a bunch off. On top of that, the fediverse is extremely underfunded in terms of security & trust and safety.

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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@stephaniewalter it's been a blessing for me, but I'm definitely being careful as I know I have an addictive personality.

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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem@hachyderm.io

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@m3t00 this isn't distributed login, this is just data sharing. A girl can hope that one day the fediverse will get a proper identity and authorisation layer. It's one of the things I like most about AT Protocol; ActivityPub API may make this a reality

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