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   BeAware :fediverse: (beaware@social.beaware.live)'s status on Thursday, 08-Aug-2024 05:31:40 JST BeAware :fediverse:

   • hallenbeck

   @jasdemi @hallenbeck yep, the people here have a tendency to have opinions on things they know nothing about.

   It's asinine behavior.

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     Exerra (exerra@daedric.world)'s status on Thursday, 08-Aug-2024 08:23:00 JST Exerra

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     • hallenbeck

     @BeAware@social.beaware.live @jasdemi@jasdemi.com @hallenbeck@mastodon.social I thought about this exact thing when I woke up today and I think that these kinds of services should act like a search engine in the way that they only index posts from people who have kept the "allow posts to be indexed by search engines" toggle on.
     
     That first of all is an opt-out system, second of all lets the user have control over it and third of all isn't hypocritical.
     
     I think those who complain about it should be reminded of the reality that they are posting on a decentralised social media platform. Social media means that what you say will be public unless set otherwise and decentralised means there isn't one singular source which can control access.

     BeAware :fediverse: repeated this.
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     BeAware :fediverse: (beaware@social.beaware.live)'s status on Thursday, 08-Aug-2024 08:24:10 JST BeAware :fediverse:

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     • hallenbeck
     • Exerra

     @exerra @jasdemi @hallenbeck I tried SO hard when this was going on, to say this as loud as possible over and over.

     However, I cannot fight against huge accounts like "jdp" actively spreading the "opt-in" only misinformation rhetoric.

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     BeAware :fediverse: (beaware@social.beaware.live)'s status on Thursday, 08-Aug-2024 08:26:20 JST BeAware :fediverse:

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     • Exerra

     @exerra @jasdemi @hallenbeck the only way to fight against that, is to follow and boost those who spread factual information.

     I *am* growing in my Fedi circle every day, but I don't believe I can grow fast enough to fight against something like that.

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     Exerra (exerra@daedric.world)'s status on Thursday, 08-Aug-2024 08:44:23 JST Exerra

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     • hallenbeck

     @BeAware@social.beaware.live @jasdemi@jasdemi.com @hallenbeck@mastodon.social I think that firstly, as I said, people need to realise where they are and what kind of negatives decentralisation has and second they need to stop being hypocritical.
     
     Regarding the first point, if they want total privacy from others they should move to a centralised platform and set their profiles to private. That way they can approve everyone who wishes to see their content and the centralised platform can control access.
     
     Regarding the second point, I feel like if they have that search engine toggle on, they're hypocrites. Why should Google and Bing have access but not others?
     
     As you said, opt-in stuff only hurts the ecosystem and there already is a toggle for search engines, so why not use that as the opt-in/out toggle for every project like this? If Google can, why shouldn't small indie projects?