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   Louis (louis@emacs.ch)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 04:34:21 JST Louis

   The Mastodon developers started to implement telemetry for everything you search for: Posts, Accounts, Tags

   https://github.com/glitch-soc/mastodon/commit/acc77c3836974473e7c6a423cbd1138479ae197a

   I'm not so sure if I like what I see in this commit. But we all knew it would be coming eventually.

   So important that we build Mastodon-compatible server alternatives.

   #mastoadmin #mastodonsocial

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     BeAware (beaware@social.beaware.live)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 04:34:19 JST BeAware

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     @louis I thought this already exists...😳

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     Ross A. Baker (ross@social.rossabaker.com)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 05:00:23 JST Ross A. Baker

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     @louis I don't think this is recording anything identifiable about the search. Just timings, counts, etc. See https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/30350.

     Furthermore, Otel doesn't by itself share anything with third parties. It's quite common to pipe it into a local monitoring solution. This data can be invaluable for keeping a service running.

     This could be extended and configured for evil, but looks useful as it stands.