The RapidBlock Project is a grassroots initiative to make Fediverse domain blocking more effective through collective action.
Moderation on the Fediverse is unevenly distributed. Some instance admins devotedly follow the #FediBlock hashtag, blocking abusive servers within hours of their first appearance on the network. Others wait until their own users file a report. Still others do nothing at all.
Installation
Installation with an debian based Linux distribution is as easy as running
curl -s https://apt.rapidblock.org/install.sh | sudo bash
This will run through installing the apt repository, pulling the required packages, and installing them.
Configuration
Configuration for the toolset is fairly simple and is done through a text file located at /etc/default/rapidblock by default the file looks like the below:
# vim:set ft=sh:
#
# This file contains the configuration settings for the RapidBlock cron script.
#
# In source control, this file lives at:Ω # https://github.com/rapidblock-org/rapidblock/blob/main/dist/cron.default
#
# When installed via a package manager, this file lives at:
# /etc/default/rapidblock
#
# The crontab file lives at:
# /etc/cron.d/rapidblock
#
# The script itself lives at:
# /opt/rapidblock/scripts/cron.sh
ENABLED=0
SLEEP_MIN=0
SLEEP_MAX=3600
BLOCKLIST_URL="https://rapidblock.org/blocklist.json"
SIGNATURE_URL="https://rapidblock.org/blocklist.json.sig"
PUBLIC_KEY_FILE="/opt/rapidblock/share/rapidblock-dot-org.pub"
INSTANCES=( \
"mastodon-4.x|postgresql:///mastodon?host=/run/postgresql&port=5433" \
)In this format, the toolset is disabled and needs configuration you need to set the following ENABLED=1 set instance type and use either mastodon-3.x or mastodon-4.x matching the version of Mastodon you are using.
For a local database:
INSTANCES=( \
"mastodon-4.x|postgresql:///mastodon_database_name?host=/run/postgresql&port=5433" \
)For a remote database:
INSTANCES=( \
"mastodon-4.x|postgresql:///mastodon_database_name?host=db.host.name&port=5432&user=username&password=secret" \
)Once these have been set the script will be called via a cronjob every hour where it will sleep a random amount of time from 0 to 3600 seconds and will then download the update and install it.
