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
@meowski again, if that is concerning to you, you are free to limit your posts visibility and vet your followers. otherwise, limiting search will not protect you.
@meowski Nobody forces anyone to post embarrassing things on the public Internet. On the other hand many ppl post their thoughts on the public Internet so others can discover and interact with them.
@lain @i @feld It's not only about journalists, I personally spend significant resources to preserve/dig up stuff as needed, all of which should be trivial if scraping wasn't a (really stupid) taboo. This also hurts the discoverability of posts&accounts.
I guess some would prefer hiding in their little bunkers with their chosen friends (and that's fine), but if we want to have an open social network it's probably the wrong strategy to design things around that concept.
@i Yes, this is exactly the problem. I have accounts at multiple instances (pretty sure some have elastic), search is shit everywhere. We'd also need federated search which would require scraping, leading back to your comment...
You know what would make Fedi an attractive place for journalists (and lots of others)?
Working search!
@freddy I simply use the Debian package (so I guess a lot of users have the same experience), and your explanation clears up why this is happening, thanks!
I guess the solution is to use a FF distribution that doesn't rely on the system updater then.
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