infosex.exchange <3

You are probably looking for the infosec.exchange Mastodon instance

This host is mostly for my random stuff, and in little part acts like a well-intentioned placeholder for the typosquatted domain.

Discoverability and Archiving

Currently I'm using this host for saving the items from my own feeds to the Wayback Machine and provide in-links for search engines. I hate that I have to do this, but the non-sense ideology of Mastodon pretty much ruined the search feature for Fediverse as a whole, and this wasn't changed by the fact that they owned their mistake and implemented search eventually.

Yes, I (or anyone else) could do similar things with other peoples published feeds, regardless of the tantrum. No, you can't defederate this, because the process doesn't rely on an instance.

Gluttony Section for Search Engines

@unchartedworlds Not sure how quoting myself helped, but glad it did.

"- implicit consent vs explicit consent"

Do I understand correctly that you think requirements for consent are/should be the same on Fedi as they are on a city street?

"- context & scale as factors."

Do I understand correctly that you think Fedi and a city street are similar in how many people you meet, how many of them are familiar/stranger to you (scale) and that people participate in the street traffic in a similar capacity as they do in the Fediverse (context)?
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@wdormann @malwaretech See, this removes friction! We should be thankful.
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OMG did @jerry just update Akkoma so we now have enhanced search? 😍

Thank you!
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@infosecdj Right??
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I'm on this picture and don't like it.
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@0v1 Parser generators: are we a joke to you?!
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@unchartedworlds

My Step 1.: "My understanding is ..."

My Step 2.: "I'm genuinely curious if there's any point I miss"

Waiting for you to take Step 3.
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@unchartedworlds TIL about steel-manning, it really sounds useful! When it comes to analogies though I think it may not be the right tool because arguing against an analogy requires to point out exactly where it breaks down instead of focusing on where it confirms the opposing argument. For example I could argue that it's fine to take pictures of birds on the street, but this would be an obviously bad argument for stalking people because people are not birds.

I described how I interpreted your analogy, I think this is as far as I can get describing what I think you think (lacking psychic abilities).

I also tried to explain our differences in thinking, and I'm genuinely curious if there's any point I miss (where I didn't manage to steel-man enough)!
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@Viss @wdormann @cR0w yeah I'd be very interested in a deeplik :popcorn:
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@unchartedworlds My understanding is that on the street people mostly interact out of necessity, and because of this it is considered rude (or even illegal) to e.g. intercept one's conversation, follow them etc.

In my view the web and esp. social media[1] (like microblogging platforms of Fedi) were created with the explicit intention for people to be listened to, followed, commented on etc. (I'm sure you can come up with analogies, but I won't mention any to avoid misdirecting the conversation.)

Technology allows us to create more private/safe infrastructure than a street (encryption, access controls etc). Social media generally aims at the opposite direction (Fedi provides public plain text APIs for everyone to use).

[1] I use this word in the sense where people curate/produce information for each other, like on (micro)blogging platforms. The "let's keep in touch with my aunt" use-case is less relevant when talking about public content.
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