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?

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[–] 21 points 8 months ago (1 child)

It seems to be from some email verification blockchain.

https://fyld.com/

https://fyld.com/proofchain?offset=0

I guess the community is just a mirror of whatever hashes are in that chain.

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Botnet command and control?

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago

    this is the output of FYLD.com blockchain

    https://www.fyld.com/#

    If you CC them on an email, it somehow gets timestamped and added to their blockchain to prove you sent that email with that content at that time.

    You ARE giving them a complete copy of the email, so yeah that's scary and sketchy as fuck, so probably don't do that.

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] -1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    They're doing it in their own community. If you don't like it, block it.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    That's not the point. They don't belong here, they spam, they don't fix it.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

    I agree. If the fediverse allows crap like that and it grows, new users will be turned away by their feed being filled with garbage posts like that.

    This is a place for people to share interesting content for other humans. Not some cheap and easy way for someone's bots to communicate with other bots while CCing the whole world. This garbage content is being sent to everyone's feed by default but it can't even be consumed by humans. What if someone starts uploading ads like that? Get that shit off of Lemmy.

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  • [–] 14 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    It's a hash of some sort. No idea what it's for.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hash_functions

    You have a link to one?

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 8 months ago (4 children)
  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

    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.

    EDIT: You could just block the community if those posts start to annoy you.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    The numbers seem to correlate to the hex color of the backgrounds of the middle numbers. Perhaps a pallet generator of some kind?

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    Message received

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (2 children)

    /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?

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    @cmeu@lemmy.world @nostupidquestions@lemmy.worldOthers 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 , 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 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 of randomness with all the fancy colors and hex nibbles. Definitely not a cryptographically safe one (please derive a password from that), but for creative purposes, it certainly suffices 😆

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  • [–] -1 points 8 months ago

    It's a fun post full of colorful characters.

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