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@ShadowJonathan@tech.lgbt @tobi a lot of others got fooled at first glance too..

update: Searchtodon meta, scraping related :boosts_ok_gay:​ 

Since then multiple others have mentioned these concerns to him, but they're dismissed just the same.

Yet again a recently joined twitter techbro is writing a scraper, but this time it's couched in language about "consent" and "privacy", it's still effectively building a centralized search index across users on his single server. Opt-out is also not actually consent, both legally (GDPR) and morally.

He keeps dismissing it as just a non-ideal stopgap-solution but that doesn't matter. it's about what's happening right now. random users logging in thinking there's *anything* private about this service, and feeding their entire following to the machine

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@tobi fuck, but my freeze peach! you have to see my content!

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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