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
@synnfynn There's a quote along the lines of "doing mathematics is not about the joy of discovery but the relief from suffering"
@avuko Nah, "with a little bit of extra code, my lib could also do X" is definitely not 0-sum logic. It is true though that people find complexity compelling ("complexity sells better").
Also note that gaining understanding of lib capabilities/limitations/general design *is* valuable (but also can be a prohibiting barrier of entry for small projects).
@david_chisnall
@avuko @david_chisnall IMO part of the problem is that deep in their souls every dev wants to build frameworks that can do many things. You basically miss Quick Start guides that show you how to do $simple_thing. No one wrote that guide because they see value in $complex_things[] their project can do and probably even see $simple_thing distracting from the Real Purpose of the project.
Source: I also tend to write frameworks for everything.
I skim through a lot of articles daily and in this age of slop my signal/noise decisions are heavily influenced by whether the piece is being hosted on a custom domain (showing that the author cares enough to maintain one).
@wolf480pl Gov data can easily come from fake darkweb listings (sold as "threat intelligence"), aka. beware of circular references
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