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re: Searchtodon meta, scraping related :boosts_ok_gay:​ 

note: the Mastodon "Opt-out of search engine indexing" setting is not a suitable proxy for consent here, it's hidden away in the settings unknown to most users, and it's also wrongly opt-out instead of opt-in.

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re: Searchtodon meta, scraping related :boosts_ok_gay:​ 

His stated goal is to run this as an 'experiment' to 'have this conversation', but in my opinion that could've happened (and was already happening) without publishing a tool, or at the very least making people explicitly **opt-in** to indexing of their toots like this

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Searchtodon meta, scraping related :boosts_ok_gay:​ 

I mentioned these concerns in the announcement thread but wanted to reiterate them here separately. social.pixie.town/@f0x/1096775

It does a lot of things right, and advertises itself as built with privacy and consent in mind.

However, while a user's search results are limited to content they could've otherwise seen pass by in their home timeline, all these toots are stored and indexed on the central Searchtodon server, indefinitely.

This means he technically has access to the combined timelines of all the users, and unlike public content scrapers **also followers-only and even DM posts** sent by **any user a Searchtodon user is following**.

There's only an opt-*out* mechanism based on setting your profile to be non-search-engine-indexible, or including a few specific hashtags.
Without opting out though **all your toots** will be stored if *any* of your followers use this tool.

While this for now remains just a technical possibility, with him stating he has no intent of misusing it, there is no way to guarantee this now or in the future, or when this data changes hands (sold off or hacked).

A services like this could have merit, but should absolutely be hosted by yourself or your own instance, since it already has control over all this data, meaning there's no extra party to trust.

too much posting, nobody should be allowed this much posting power

also more hyping myself up like: there's a reason i'm refactoring this code, but the quality ain't all that bad. i can still understand it after a few months :")

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re: Instance block recommendation 

also lmao at the anarchy symbol as the favicon, you really don't get it, do you

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Instance block recommendation 

impeccable.social, single-user Pleroma/Soapbox instance, feed is full of boosting other shitty instances like noagendasocial.com and gleasonator.com

found them through a reply recommending Soapbox (eww) and Wildebeest (cloudflare eww) software

i'm posting too much so probably had too many stimulants

Microsoft Word?
I haven’t heard that name for years…

JK Rowling has explicitly said, multiple times, that people continuing to buy Harry Potter stuff is proof that they agree with her transphobia

Stop giving this bigot money

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it's easy to only focus on the future improvements you want to make, or compare yourself to others. but compared to past me, the stuff i'm building now? fucking hell

😩✋ vowels for the nose
🐴👉 consonants for the nose
🐫👉 plosives for the nose

time to but the desk into attack mode, and get this code refactored

37 files changed, +1,521 −970 is somehow less than I expected

using inline plaintext email quoting while adding in emoji for stylistic whiplash

Decommissioned yet another server, helios.pixie.town

Returnal - Helios youtube.com/watch?v=Is7s1ggXPe (spooky)

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