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they cannot seem to appreciate the value of nestling down among a small group of friends and sharing genuine things about yourself

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for real though these tech guy types seem to live in a different fucking world, where being visible + discoverable and indexed is some kind of virtue in and of itself

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re: (non)consent, techbros 

@DiaDemiEmi@tech.lgbt yeah.. "works" :>

@tobi it seems wrong to profit off discussion about consent/scrapebro's like that :")

also never tough I'd become a Mastodon Opinion Haver

re: Searchtodon meta, scraping related :boosts_ok_gay:​ 

@Luissen@furry.engineer exactly, this is something that needs to happen on the instance (already has all this data) or client (limited to what that client could've actually seen on the timeline)

@Seirdy@pleroma.envs.net yeah that one was terrible as well :") fucking scrapebro's

Just published my article/devlog about FediFox Shield, my project for a nicer public Mastodon frontend

It goes deep into some technical details I had lots of fun implementing, but also explains the overall motivation, and next steps for the project

cthu.lu/projects/fedifox-shiel

re: Searchtodon meta, scraping related :boosts_ok_gay:​ 

it's kinda weird seeing how even normally more critical people are responding to this. There's a thin veneer of "consent" and "private" but his service is still building a giant searchable index across everyone who uses it. like wtf. The software has merit when part of an instance but why would there ever be a centralized setup

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oh fucking hell, i was midway typing a reply to someone before I realized this was definitely not good-faith and then I went to their posts/replies and the only interactions they have with this entire instance is shitty techbro sealioning

ah because I still had a lot of local changes I didn't push..

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let's get to the bottom of this

*points toward camera*

@freci Currently it's completely mixed, but that's also because work is now getting paid to do a hobby project :)

Before that I used a separate 'work' Simple Tab Group addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firef

@bstacey @janl@chaos.social it's also something that has gotten worse over time, where many newer decisions are very clearly prioritizing marketing over privacy

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