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The communities that publicly shame search providers also publicly shame and block lolicon servers. I don’t see how that means that they are protecting those servers by disliking s…

> I guess you could frame this as a privacy argument, but I don't buy that as the primary reason people were upset with "Fedisearch." They were upset because it exposed their commu…

I think both of you are visualising "posting on the Fediverse" differently. One visualises it as a conversation between two people that may be overheard, while the other visualises…

Google is indeed already indexing the Fediverse. A Fediverse long-timer I've talked to justified this by saying that Mastodon is "more like speaking" and websites are "more like pu…

I’m a bit confused. Isn’t there a lot of queer-ness on Twitter, Reddit etc?

Do you mean deep web?

Harassment and toxicity on Mastodon is a very real thing indeed.

This quote from Eugen is about CWs, but I think it applies here too: “… It's a decentralized network that doesn't belong to any one party, so by definition there is no single cultu…

I was under the impression that boosting follower only posts does not work (via the API too, actually, it returns a HTTP error code if you try to do so), but then again the server …

I believe they meant physically. Just because you can't stop people physically smoking doesn't mean you can't stop them by social or legal (which reflects social) means. Similarly,…

Furthermore, crawlers may not respect the opt-out tag. https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/13207 Another thing -- noindex is not federated. I used to enable noindex, and st…

Very good points. Thanks for your thoughts.

If you enable follow requests, and trust the admins of your followers, does that work as a privacy feature? From what I know, such posts do not get federated to unrelated servers, …

To add on to this, remember that there is a Fediverse plugin for Wordpress as well.

There are jurisdictions (the EU, the UK, Singapore, Japan) with copyright exceptions specifically for text and data mining for AI purposes. https://www.twobirds.com/en/insights/202…

I come from the side of "search should exist", but I enjoyed this nuanced read. Thank you.

You lose your followers if you get banned. I was following someone who got banned for disagreeing with moderation policies. I suggested asking the admin to help with the migration;…

I feel like Lobsters has better quality discourse nowadays though, due to its much more explicit vetting system. I am not part of that website, yet I love reading the comment secti…

No, a few days ago this page was public.

My partner has OCD and he heavily dislikes people misusing the term.

Don't forget Matrix.

I'm a server admin; I think there's merit to this thought. There is an initial hump. We don't want to dump users randomly into a small server because the community aspect is much s…

On the other hand, your per-server handles can be much shorter. For example, @tim@apple.com vs @TimCook. This also comes with built-in verification; @TimCook@freerobux.com is proba…

My comment is uninformed, but I feel like centralised companies have the R&D resources to create innovation, which communities then steal (in a good way) to make the technology fre…