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
@twomikecharlie The behavior changes depending on location, zoom and viewport size, a common problem is that by dragging along a long street while keeping the zoom level at some positions no street name label is visible. Desktop is much better than mobile though. The consumer focus argument makes some sense, although I'd still be in trouble to find the direction to the döner place if I can't tell which part of an intersection is which road right after I got out of the subway (also happened to me).
@twomikecharlie As I wrote I have this problem all the time with different maps. That includes OSM (also mentioned in the ticket) and GMaps.
@lrhodes Thanks that makes sense...sort of...
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