Submitted 2 days ago by cmeu@lemmy.world to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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I like to sort by new, and I occasionally run across these posts. There’s usually no interaction going on, just this … What the heck are these? Can I stop seeing them somehow?
It’s a hash of some sort. No idea what it’s for.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hash_functions
You have a link to one?
Every single post in that community seems to be like that.
Seems like it might be a bot acct just following… well, whatever script that might be for.
This an annoying junk posting bot that adds absolutely nothing to the fediverse but waste.
Sadly, as the group moderator cares fuck about spam notifications, we have to wait for a higher up solution to kick this trash out.
Whatever this idiots goal is, he or she can waste their own webspace with it, and leave the rest of the world alone.
Another problem is that the frequency of these unwanted junk posts seems to increase.
I blocked the community 🤷♂️
from fyld.com:
Instant Email Timestamping. For Free.
Simply CC or BCC our email address, FYLD@FYLD.com, and your emails are securely hashed, timestamped, and published on the Proofchain® for irrefutable proof.
Basically a way to put your email on a blockchain with a hash. Not sure why they’re publishing all of those on that community, but whatever.
I’m so confused on what the point of such a hash would be. If the time that an email was sent was so important, would existing DKIM timestamps also work? Is this basically the digital equivalent of including today’s newspaper in a ransom note?
Not to say that DKIM as-used is perfect.
It’s not even accurate. The received timestamp is when they received it, not when you sent it. And email has a 3-day SLA.
But why are they spamming here? Let them post it on their own website, but kick them off for good from where they don’t belong.
They’re doing it in their own community. If you don’t like it, block it.
Botnet command and control?
Maybe… 🤷♂️
~/conspire~ This is at least the second time that I’ve read a question like this. Is OP the creator of an elaborate AR riddle which spans the whole world trying desperatly to make his riddles known?
You concocted a fantasy from a bunch of random numbers.
Fuck random numbers. Post them in the random number sub or gtfo, cuz’ it’s digital trash unless it has context 468285971.
The shadow knows…
@cmeu@lemmy.world @nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
Others already replied what it is: something to do with blockchain (not Bitcoin, but a blockchain nevertheless).
Just to add something, as someone who also uses to use Nostr alongside the Fediverse: this "fyld" (likely an automated account) also has a Nostr nprofile, posting the exact same thing over there, and they likely do a similar thing across other social protocols and platforms, such as ATmosphere (Bluesky), although I don't have a Bluesky account anymore to confirm this.
At first glance, it does look like spam, and I muted them both there (didn't mute here because it only appears for lemmy.world; lemmy.ml doesn't seem to federate with that community), due to the annoying frequency of posting...
...but for those who are looking for random numbers whenever there are no TTRPG dices (or, in my case, Ouija boards) nearby, I'd say it's quite a source of randomness with all the fancy colors and hex nibbles. Definitely not a cryptographically safe one (please do not derive a password from that), but for creative purposes, it certainly suffices 😆
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x00z@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It seems to be from some email verification blockchain.
fyld.com
fyld.com/proofchain?offset=0
I guess the community is just a mirror of whatever hashes are in that chain.
Treczoks@lemmy.world 1 day ago
So just remove this community. The moderator does not at all react to spam reports.