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!Friendica Support Still trying to figure out what's slowing down my loma.ml account so incredibly much: I used to have the Twitter addon and import of remote timeline configured for quite a while, so there are like 900+ Twitter "contacts" still in there. Trying to remove them is tedious because I only can "unfollow" them one-by-one which still will leave them around in my contacts list. Is there a way to quickly unfollow and also _remove_ all of them from my contacts, either via user interface or via API?
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GunChleoc
GunChleoc  
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Can you Fediblock the twitter.com domain for your account in Friendica?

@helpers
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utzer [Friendica]
utzer [Friendica]  
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@Kristian someone said you can disable the add on and it should remove the contacts, but I am not sure about that.

@Hypolite Petovan did you tell me this?
@Hypolite Petovan @Kristian
Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan  
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@utzer [Friendica] @Kristian Yes, but it was a wish rather than an existing feature.
@Kristian
Michael Vogel
Michael Vogel  
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The slowing down is not caused by the Twitter addon. Please have got a look at mytop to see if there are long running queries.
Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan  
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@Kristian There’s no mass-unfollow available just yet, neither via the UI nor via the API, but probing even 900 contacts shouldn’t slow down your node. If it was fine when you were using the Twitter addon, then it shouldn’t change once you stop.

Are you affected by the activitypub-troll plague by any chance?
@Kristian
Kristian
Kristian  
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Thanks all.... I unfortunately can't use any system-level tools as I'm not on my own instance. The problem's quite "old", for my account the /network call takes "ages" (30 seconds and more) to load, pretty much all the time. Same, I do have a list of about 80 people which took even longer for most of the time and now just runs into a 504 error. Keeping some load off my admin, I wanted to peek into that on different systems, including a smaller one I hosted myself for a few days, to in all cases import my contacts and see the machine is fast. Even for longer periods of time, I failed to reproduce this particular problem. The only real difference between the instances is that, on my "main" account, I do have these Twitter stubs around in the contact list. (And maybe some dead activitypub connections, too, that will not reconnect while importing). It's merely trial-and-error at the moment as I'm not using the Twitter connectivity this way anymore, either.
Matthias
Matthias  
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@Hypolite Petovan @Kristian
The account was affected by a strange proliferation a long time ago. The account was recreated several hundred times, which was cleaned up by @Michael Vogel . From this experience, the console command bin/console mergecontacts -e was integrated into Friendica.
The account still seems to suffer somehow from the events of that time.
The server itself seems to be healthy as no other accounts are affected (as far as I can tell). The troll accounts are blocked and the gserver table is cleaned.
@Hypolite Petovan @Michael Vogel @Kristian
Kristian
Kristian  
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@Matthias ✔ (To add to this: Current idea was to simply create another account and manually migrate contacts by ex- and re-importing them - which however fails as I can't re-connect to my Diaspora contacts because of https://github.com/friendica/friendica/issues/13102 which seems limited to few instances? So currently I'm using a fallback account on another system for which both - performance and Diaspora - seems to work...)

@Hypolite Petovan @Michael Vogel
@Hypolite Petovan @Michael Vogel @Matthias
Kristian
Kristian  
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(Weird thing about this whole situation: Performance for this - z428@loma.ml - accounts /network tab seems to be constantly bad at the moment, same as for the particular mentioned /group. But: This performance issues only seem to appear while requesting these resources via web browser or some Mastodon API client like tusky. The system works not blazingly fast but reasonably usable while being accessed via #relatica , not sure which API they use and/or what's different with them.)
#relatica
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