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
@slp This keyboard is tripping balls
@atomicpoet @dansup Worse: it created friction for legit use-cases (that can't be undone!), creates ~0 friction for illegitimate ones *while* giving a false sense of security.
Limiting discovery is def in the top3 stupidest ideas I've seen during my long time on the Web.
@Ange you know when some smart bureaucrat draws black rectangles over paragraphs then someone on the Internet does a Ctrl+A Ctrl+C Ctrl+V and publishes the whole text layer
@Ange considering impact: select to unredact :)
I have this favorite story about "the first 3D shopping mall" on the Hungarian Internet: it was of course a massive failure, because the minds behind it didn't realize that people are not going to the mall to use escalators (which was precisely modeled in VRML along with corridors, benches, etc).
I think the recent enthusiasm about GenAI-driven voice/video recognition is similar in this aspect: in many cases people would prefer a system *not* involving human(-like) interaction (or using an escalator), it's just we currently don't have better solutions for many tasks. Assuming a speech/video interface is always better than e.g. a bar code reader results in faster horses, not cars.
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