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
@banty I'm talking explicitly about eating glue as depicted in PPG, Archer, and likely a bunch of other shows
@devcoffee PPG is one of my all time favorites, and Shawn is on my watchlist!
Now that eating glue is a hot topic, I have a serious question:
This phenomenon seems to be prevalent in the US and as a European I have no idea how it works. Do you have glue that tastes good? You get high? Is it safe with specific kinds of glue?
We recently watched a Powerpuff Girls episode about this too (see pic), and unfortunately I failed to fulfill my kid's curiosity in the topic, please help!
@freddy Understandable, I just wanted to point out that thinking about similar stuff as "prevention" will result in great (and sometimes even harmful) surprises, so we better be careful with phrasing.
@freddy I don't think these things were supposed to prevent anything, but give guidance for well-behaving participants (see also: fedisearch). What we can conclude is that AI scrapers don't follow the netiquette.
@wdormann Yeah, imagine all the things you could do instead of going through that N page technical report :)
@bschorr what secret is the encryption based on? What if the user chooses an easy pw for their account?
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