Untitled attachment

Notices where this attachment appears

1. Embed this notice
   Woozle Hypertwin (woozle@toot.cat)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 02:53:14 JST Woozle Hypertwin

   in reply to

   @zkat @GrouchyHydra Since he hasn't actually built anything yet and is just discussing it, I'll remove the block.

   Some context:

   This has always been a contentious area -- the fact that public posts technically can be aggregated without anyone's consent or federation has never stopped people from being upset at anyone who does so, openly/transparently or not. This is especially true for search.

   There are good reasons to be upset about how it might be abused, but I also think it's a mistake to think we can stop it by just defederating from anyone who does it.

   There are also good reasons to think that a lot of the fears stem from abuses of these sorts of tools on less-well-moderated sites and instances. It's my view that tool-abuse is best dealt with through moderation, rather than by refusing to allow the tool.

   We need to, basically, do our own EEE on these kinds of uses: flood out abusive uses with responsible & transparent ones.

   ...and we need to start by discussing what kinds of uses are reasonable.

   cc: @news @osslate @idlestate