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hey if google does ever show up on the fediverse i'll be well prepared

Shoutout to @jalcine@todon.eu for hipping me to Gitea going corporate.

sigh This is why we can't have nice things.

:boost_requested:​ A question for folks who *aren't* developers:

What would be the most important things/qualities for you in a website/page builder? Specifically, in the kind of builder that lets you build in some limited amount of interactivity (like forum functionality).

Developers, sit this one out please. Boosting is of course appreciated, though.

Wow. Minnesnowta@universeodon.com jumped in my mentions, clearly feeling called out by the idea that wanting massive police operations to attack unhoused people might be fascist, got tired of telling on themselves, and blocked me.

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(there is already a `title` hover with info on what it means, and screenreader-accessible fallback text)

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What icon do I use for "This domain is already in your list of suspended instances", I'm at a loss

options: forkaweso.me/Fork-Awesome/icon

I think it should mostly be an informative hint, because it won't prevent you from including it in your import (you might even want to, to change the metadata to that from the import)

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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