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this is probably my most popular toot by now. if so many people agree, why do techbros keep writing shitty scrapers under the guise of "people totally want this", hmm?

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oh so we're tech bros, just because we all share the exact same lack of empathy, certainty of our own intellectual superiority, panglossian view of technological intrusion into private life, and we all keep doing the exact same thing over and over that everybody here hates?

@rbairwell @aendra @doot As someone with ADHD, I have no right to feed data of others to some third party service, so I can make things convenient for myself.

I don't think anyone argues against having a private, self-hosted search or search on your own instance :) It would even be quite possible to buid it into a web client.

received my bulk pack of smd storage magazines, they're really nice. cool to see the design improvements compared to the ones I 3dprinted myself years ago

❌​ percussive maintenance
✅​ giving your server a headpat

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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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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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

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