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   josep (josep@freiburg.social)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jan-2024 07:42:32 JST josep

   • Anil Dash

   I absolutely love @anildash Idea of opt-in full-text search for the #fediverse How about, creating an #activitypub bot, that you can mention in your post, and only this post will get indexed and available in a full-text search engine. This could eliminate the negative impacts, such as vulnerability through visibility, while also making it easier to find answers for niche question. Anybody with the #coding skills necessary interested ? https://www.anildash.com/2023/01/16/a-fediverse-search/

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     Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jan-2024 22:41:49 JST Anil Dash

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     • Rich Felker

     @dalias @josep he literally suggested a consent mechanism. Don’t be obtuse.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jan-2024 22:41:50 JST Rich Felker

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     • Anil Dash

     @josep @anildash No, stop trying to reinterpret existing mechanisms as consent to something different. Anyone replying to someone who mentioned the bot has no reason to know "this means I'm consenting to something". We have real metadata for whether the user wants to be searchable. Use that.

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     Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jan-2024 22:46:35 JST Anil Dash

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     • Bèr Kessels 🐝 🚐 🏄 🌱

     @berkes @josep have you written up your experience?

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     Bèr Kessels 🐝 🚐 🏄 🌱 (berkes@mastodon.nl)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jan-2024 22:46:38 JST Bèr Kessels 🐝 🚐 🏄 🌱

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     • Anil Dash

     @josep @anildash I built exactly that with flockingbird. It got blocked, banned, pitchforks were raised, threats posted to my and some volunteers DMs and a lot of outrage and anger vented.

     Believe me, there are some very strong bullies here on the fediverse that will use outraged mobs to push anything they dislike off the fediverse. Not just from their own part, but pushed from as large a fediverse as possible.

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     Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jan-2024 05:53:00 JST Anil Dash

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     • Bèr Kessels 🐝 🚐 🏄 🌱

     @berkes @josep understood. these things are hard.

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     Bèr Kessels 🐝 🚐 🏄 🌱 (berkes@mastodon.nl)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jan-2024 05:53:04 JST Bèr Kessels 🐝 🚐 🏄 🌱

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     • Anil Dash

     @anildash @josep no.

     I started a blogpost a few times, but it keeps getting too angry and too easy to mistake for critique on the entire fediverse, easily sounding destructive. I did not manage to make it constructive. I guess my frustrations are too much in the way.

     I'd rather leave it at that, than put something out there that might harm the great work of mods, admins and devs.

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     Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jan-2024 05:53:30 JST Anil Dash

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     • Rich Felker

     @dalias @josep Yeah, so how would explicitly opting-in not count as consent?

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jan-2024 05:53:31 JST Rich Felker

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     • Anil Dash

     @anildash @josep The post I replied to suggests treating mention of a particular bot as consent. Am I misreading it?